High Quotes

• My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job.

  

  Jensen Ackles
  • School
  • Job
  • Father

• I think it's important for kids to express themselves with bad fashion. I struggle a little bit now because I have a daughter and I feel with fashion, like they're sexualizing the kids so young. Little kids in high heels and that kind of thing is really difficult for me to wrap my head around.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Bad

• Brother Colm is one of the best coaches who's ever been here in Kenya. He's been, of course, my coach since I started running. He saw me in high school when I was still doing 400, and 200 meters. He decided for me to join his club and we'd been training for one month. That is when he saw me and he thought I could do a good 800.

  

  David Rudisha
  • Good
  • School
  • Running

• Some tell me I'll break my ankle on my high heels - but I live in them. I'm known for doing speed dashes and leaps and bounds in heels. No problem.

  

  Kylie Bax
  • Live
  • High

• Twins are a high-risk pregnancy, by definition. The quieter I am, the longer I can keep them growing.

  

  Jane Pauley
  • Growing
  • Risk
  • Pregnancy

• I ran track in high school very competitively, and then ran it D-1 at Boston University. I ran there on an athletic scholarship and chose BU because they had both a good track program and an arts program.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Good
  • School
  • High School

• When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a relaxing, normal life.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Life
  • School
  • Home

• The very eagle, destined to soar so high and to see so far, begins his life in the fissures of the rocks, and in his early days only sees the arid and sometimes fetid borders of his eyry.

  

  Alphonse de Lamartine
  • Life
  • High

• Our standards for motherhood are so high that many of us harbor intense, secret guilt for every harsh word we speak to our children, every negative thought that enters our minds.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Children
  • Motherhood
  • Guilt

• With this film I have made more money than any of my other films. It was a high-wire act.

  

  Kamal Haasan
  • Money
  • High

• Character is developed one positive action at a time. Therefore nothing is actually trivial in our lives. To grow in character development, pay attention to seemingly trivial matters. Someone who grows from each minor life event will eventually reach high levels of character perfection.

  

  Zelig Pliskin
  • Life
  • Time
  • Character

• Let me tell you, writing comics is as hard as anything I've ever done - for me, at least. I'm now officially in awe of guys who can crank out multiple books a month and maintain a high level of quality. Comics are completely different than any other medium I've dabbled in.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Done

• The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I will never forget, as a kid, looking at that image.

  

  Bill Viola
  • School
  • Experience
  • Black

• I know all beyond High Park's a desert to you.

  

  George Etherege
  • High
  • Desert

• There can be an extremist idea of purity. It's so easy to fall afoul of the ridiculously high standard set there.

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • High
  • Fall

• I wasn't a good student in high school. I wanted to go to college, but they weren't exactly beating down my door to offer me admission, and it's so expensive in the U.S. If you join up for a period, the army will pay your school and provide a stipend.

  

  Kevin Powers
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• I must confess that I had expected the rigorous analysis of income taxation in the utilitarian manner to provide arguments for high tax rates. It has not done so.

  

  James Mirrlees
  • Done
  • High

• You're never too old to start learning, and you're never too young to aim high and achieve great things.

  

  Asa Hutchinson
  • Great
  • High
  • Learning

• My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Writing
  • School
  • Money

• Young Hollywood can absolutely feel like high school sometimes, which is hard, but it's part of life. If you get enough humans involved, there is bound to be a little drama.

  

  Meaghan Jette Martin
  • Life
  • School
  • Drama

• It is less important, I believe, where you start. It is more important how and what you learn. If the quality of the learning is high, the development gradient is steep, and, given time, you can find yourself in a previously unattainable place.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Important

• Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Effort

• I think the media can be a very positive influence by essentially holding people to task about the importance of high quality medical care. And when the media is scrutinizing you, then I think that's a very good, positive thing for the field of medicine.

  

  Anthony Fauci
  • People
  • Good
  • Quality

• I'm from Texas and actually went to a regular high school, but every day after school I'd run to dance class and practice a lot and then go back the next day and stuff like that.

  

  Jenna Dewan
  • School
  • Practice
  • Dance

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