Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people. Votes: 2
Nick SabanTogether we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky. Votes: 1
Sonia GandhiThe level of evolution in this world is not exactly high. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwellemotion without discipline is as dangerous as a high-powered car without brakes.
Helen Kieran ReillyIt's not like I want to put myself on a high horse, but I just don't curse a lot.
Cassidy Erin GiffordTo have a high IQ, you tend to specialize, think deep thoughts. You avoid trivia.
Christopher LanganPersecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue.
Jean Francois Paul de GondiNothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence
Hans Christian AndersenAn awful lot of people are living only a foot above high water and do not know it.
James T. Williams IIIt's my nature to go around in high spirits most of the time and then to collapse.
Margaret SullavanThere is no wall that is high enough to stop a horse with a cart filled with gold.
Philip II of MacedonHigh kitsch, whatever else may be said of it, cannot be openly dismissed as cheap.
Robert C. SolomonI always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
Tennessee WilliamsLove without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.
Alexandre Dumas-filsdeep they delved us, fair they wrought us, high they builded us; but they are gone.
J. R. R. TolkienOne arises from a low to a high station more often by using fraud instead of force.
Niccolo MachiavelliMan is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyMy acting teacher in high school was really influential, and we still keep in touch.
Brandon Jay McLarenOne piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.
Henry David ThoreauMan arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.
James Henry BreastedGrandfather kicked the stop pedal, and my face gave a high-five to the front window.
Jonathan Safran FoerFor what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.
William S. BurroughsTo callow wings no flight is too high to attempt. At sixteen all things are possible.
Annie Fellows JohnstonGolf is a game of coordination, rhythm, and grace; women have these to a high degree.
Babe Didrikson ZahariasIf you look at high performers they are always the most passionate - in any industry.
Brendon BurchardWe're showing a lot of the good signs you need for a good team, so I have high hopes.
Henrik LundqvistIt is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTo earn the right to be criticized on a scientific level is a high compliment indeed.
Neil deGrasse TysonGenerosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants.
Pierre CorneilleNo one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonGive all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more.
William WordsworthHis high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright.
William WordsworthYou don't want to peak in high school. If you do, the rest of your life is a disaster.
Candace BushnellIn high school, when I played football I got no respect. I shared a locker with a mop.
Rodney DangerfieldHigh performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air.
Andy HargreavesIn human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity.
Brennan ManningI wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.
Condola RashadNow I'm back in LA, it's high time to finish a little something I've been working on...
Edgar WrightHigh School Is Life's Way of Giving You a Record Low to Judge the Rest of Your Life By)
Jenny LawsonGovernment is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.
Jonathan KellermanIndia is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.
Mahatma GandhiMy spirit animal is a monkey. Because I have really long arms and I like being up high.
Margot RobbieI wear glasses myself. As an affectation, as a badge of high intellect and to see with.
Simon MunneryPower from on high . . . It is God inserting into you divine activity with mightiness.
Smith WigglesworthThis little member can behold the earth, and in a moment view things as high as heaven.
Stephen CharnockMadonna has an incredible face. A face you would like to look at blown up 50 feet high!
Susan SeidelmanThe written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.
Walter MoersI hold in my hands the very soul of a man. What more dare a woman ask of the high gods?
William John LockeI play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.
Winston ChurchillIt was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.
Blythe DannerEvery high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.
Chuck PalahniukWhen I'm feeling a little low, I put on my favorite high heels to stand a little taller.
Dolly PartonPeople always say "pop culture." As if we have some high culture to distinguish it from.
Fran LebowitzLike some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
Haile GebrselassieNo man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.
Henry Ward BeecherSo, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.
Johnny BenchMost comedians weren't great athletes; that was the way they got noticed in high school.
Judd ApatowIf becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.
Ken BlanchardI quickly learned that motherhood was a high wire act sometimes performed without a net.
Marita GoldenThere is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.
Max EastmanWhere the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free .....
Rabindranath TagoreHairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.
Stephen KingA woman who wears high heels is very different, I think, than a woman who wears sandals.
Winona RyderNever stand so high upon a principle that you cannot lower it to suit the circumstances.
Winston ChurchillIt's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.
Bryan FerryI knew when I was in high school that I wanted a job where they'd applaud if I showed up.
Cheryl WheelerWhen you are a high school girl, there is nothing more miraculous than a high school boy.
Curtis SittenfeldI call the light and high aspects of my being spirit and the dark and heavy aspects soul.
Dalai LamaNothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.
David RicardoIt is not like every episode [of "Mary and Jane"] people are sitting around getting high.
Deborah KaplanLet us set our goals too high; let us demand more of ourselves than we believe we possess
Haile SelassieLet's provide family leave that is paid and access to affordable, high-quality childcare.
Hillary ClintonHow much do I love you? I'll tell you no lie. How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky?
Irving BerlinOh my, justifying reasons why Is an absolutely insane resolution to live by ((Live High))
Jason MrazI didn't want to go to college. I wanted to move to Los Angeles right out of high school.
Jenna FischerNo matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.
John GreenThe discrepancy between equity earnings yields and Treasury yields is at an all time high
John PaulsonMy worst hairstyle was a bowl cut parted down the middle. It was the '90s. It was what you did. I had that from 4th grade until freshman year in high school. I'm glad the pictures exist. I had great hair back then. Votes: 1 Chris Evans
If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances. Votes: 1 Alberto Salazar
I made the decision to take acting seriously after high school. Votes: 5 Mary-Kate Olsen
Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here. Votes: 5 Donald Trump
Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life. Votes: 1 Vladimir Putin
My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set. Votes: 1 Rudolph A. Marcus
In high school, I tried very hard to make everybody like me, which resulted in me being extremely unhappy and in a lot of pain. Therefore, the lesson I got from that was that I can't make everybody happy. Votes: 1 Zoey Deutch
People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed. Votes: 1 Arlen Specter
I'm throwing myself back in because I like being married. I don't want to end this whole fabulous journey alone. I want someone by my side who I love and who loves me. I've finally found somebody who's up to the task of being my wife, because I'm very high maintenance. Votes: 1 Neil Diamond
I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out. Votes: 1 Steve Martin
To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits. Votes: 2 Lorna Luft
I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved. Votes: 1 Veronica Roth
To change the media, you're gonna have to totally throw out every journalism school and get rid of everybody in every newsroom, and then you're gonna have to change the grade school and middle school and high school curriculum. Votes: 2 Rush Limbaugh
This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal. Votes: 1 Joshua Chamberlain
Most guys in high school wore clothes seen only by their classmates. I wore clothes seen by the world. Votes: 1 Justin Timberlake
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high. Votes: 3 Aristophanes
You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today. Votes: 3 Oscar Robertson
The history of fiction is about family - an inexhaustible subject for literature. We are creatures driven by emotions that are on high display in intimate relations - inside the family. Votes: 1 Siri Hustvedt
I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself. Votes: 3 Olivia Wilde
No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them. Votes: 1 Otto Weininger
Reason would lead us to the conclusion that Jehovah would not create a wonderful earth like this, permit man to bring it to a high state of cultivation in many places, and then completely destroy it. Votes: 1 Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Your dreams are your destiny.Explore the paradise of dreaming high. You will be amazed. Votes: 3 Lailah Gifty Akita
High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream. Votes: 3 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
In early high school years, I was pretty chubby, and I spent a lot of time on my computer, before it was cool to have a computer - because there was a time that was true. So that's where I developed my personality. Votes: 3 Rashida Jones
I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated. Votes: 2 Spike Lee
What people don't realize is that fame, whatever your worst experience in high school, when you were being bullied by those ten kids in high school, fame is that, but on a global scale, where you're being bullied by millions of people constantly. Votes: 4 Megan Fox
If I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling. Votes: 2 Olivia Wilde
Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now. They've always been very adamant about me finishing high school and finishing college. Votes: 3 Chance The Rapper
I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough. Votes: 3 Lucy Larcom
I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips. Votes: 3 Gabby Douglas
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. Votes: 1 Bill Viola
I did my fist show, 'Godspell', in my freshman year of high school. Votes: 2 James Snyder
Britannia High' is this new, edgy series which follows the lives of seven kids, their friendships, and the troubles they go through at stage school. Votes: 1 Mitch Hewer
I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!' Votes: 1 Mae Whitman
I ended up getting drafted by the Colorado Rockies on June 8, 2010 and the next day, my dad passed away, in June 9, 2010. So I'm at the biggest high of my life on June 8th. And the next day, June 9th, he's gone. Votes: 1 Russell Wilson
Lestat and Louie feel sorry for vampires that sparkle in the sun. They would never hurt immortals who choose to spend eternity going to high school over and over again in a small town ---- anymore than they would hurt the physically disabled or the mentally challenged. My vampires possess gravitas. They can afford to be merciful. Votes: 2 Anne Rice
I don't want to get too detailed into it, but when you're a good high school running back, you can almost be whatever type of runner you want to be. If you're a good size and a good athlete, you can be whatever type of runner you want. Votes: 2 Barry Sanders
Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence. Votes: 4 Joe Baca
I've done so many funny jobs. I worked at a farmer's market through high school. I worked in the stock room of Ralph Lauren. I graduated to salesperson at Ralph Lauren, which was a big deal to me. I've been a P.A. I've been a stand-in. I've been an assistant's assistant. Votes: 2 Allison Williams
The day after my high school graduation in 1952, I headed to Alaska. I was 17. I started out greasing equipment, then became a heavy-crane operator. I made and saved good money there for two years. Votes: 1 Dennis Washington
Following graduation from high school in 1948, I attended Harvard University where I became a physics major. Having grown up in a small town, I found Harvard to be an enormously enriching experience. Students in my class came from all walks of life and from a great variety of geographical locations. Votes: 1 David Lee
I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation. Votes: 3 Tommy Caldwell
My dad is quite possibly the biggest Giants fan in the world. I believe he wore a Phil Simms jersey to my high school and college graduations. Votes: 1 Bobby Moynihan
High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organizations, higher graduation rates, and greater neighborhood stability. Votes: 1 Ben Bernanke
I played sports growing up in high school. Votes: 2 Erin Heatherton
I think sometimes you have high expectations for people because you have high expectations for yourself. Votes: 2 Gisele Bundchen
In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah. Votes: 3 Anthony Kiedis
Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No. Votes: 3 Harold Wilson
I rendezvous with the long wire and perform the 'torero walk', gliding my feet, holding the pole away from my body, head high. Votes: 4 Philippe Petit
But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you. Votes: 3 Vanessa Kerry
I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety. Votes: 4 Barry Levinson
So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy. Votes: 4 Radha Mitchell
Stiletto, I look at it more as an attitude as opposed to a high-heeled shoe. Votes: 1 Lita Ford
People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave. Votes: 3 Dick Gregory
Falling in love can be likened to someone, falling from a high building. The possible result will be unconsciousness if not death. Take it that, anybody that falls in love is either unconscious or dead. Votes: 3 Michael Bassey Johnson
Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time. Votes: 2 Richard Rogers
That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber, but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information. Votes: 3 Julian Assange
pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower! Votes: 3 John Green
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds. Votes: 4 Tryon Edwards
For some reason, people always assign high cheekbones to some ethnicity, but apparently by their regards, everybody on earth has high cheekbones. So I don't know if that matters. Votes: 4 Mat Johnson
For people who have heart disease, statins are great. But if all you've had is high cholesterol, what you're doing is taking this 1/100 chance of getting a benefit and offsetting it with 1/200 chance of getting diabetes. Votes: 2 Eric Topol
I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars. Votes: 4 Daniel Craig
Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That's grossly unfair to a legal high school student who moves out of California for a year, then returns to attend college. Votes: 1 Elton Gallegly
To be cautious, one should not take high confidence as any absolute guarantee of anything. Votes: 3 Elizabeth Loftus
Football is a more beautiful game in high definition. Votes: 5 Jose Mourinho
Big swings in the wholesale price of electricity are not unusual in the summer, when high demand taxes generators' ability to supply power. Votes: 4 Alex Berenson
I look back over my shoulder and feel the presence of an intense young girl and then a volatile and disturbed young woman, both with high dreams and restless, romantic aspirations Votes: 3 Kay Redfield Jamison
By selling directly to customers, real women, the brand is able to avoid significant retail mark-ups that typically exist in high end fashion. Votes: 3 Sarah Lafleur
When I see someone in a military uniform I make it a point to approach them, shake their hand and say five words... 'thank you for your service.' 'Stars Earn Stripes' is a high energy, fun, action show, but at its heart it is all about those five words. Votes: 2 Mark Burnett
I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished. Votes: 1 Famke Janssen
Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to. Votes: 1 Greg Anderson
I think, as most of us do, I put such high expectations on myself that this spills over onto other people. And not everyone is wired this way. Some people can shrug expectations off their shoulders like a cardigan, remaining cool and breezy. Others wear them like a parka with a stuck zipper, hot and stifling. Votes: 1 Kristin Armstrong
Fashion is about owning whatever you're wearing, regardless of if it's a high fashion statement or not. Votes: 6 Darren Criss
I first got sick after I had my daughter, Kimberly, 21 years ago. I'd always been energetic and never had any serious medical problems. Then I got very sick with a high fever. They told me I had mononucleosis. I became pregnant right away with Sean, and after he was born, I never seemed to recover. Votes: 3 Alana Stewart
I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory. Votes: 3 Alan Parsons
For the most part, I try to stay away from high fructose corn syrup and citric acid. Votes: 3 Nikki Reed
My autism is a very mild form. It was diagnosed at the age of 25, partly because it wasn't diagnosable as a teenager (this is Asperger's syndrome, specifically). But there were certainly traits within that condition, within the autism spectrum in general, especially at the high functioning end, that I think are best looked at as pluses. Votes: 1 Daniel Tammet
I think blaming the president for high gas prices is like blaming Rudy Giuliani for 9/11. Votes: 3 Jennifer Granholm
You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. Votes: 2 George S. Patton
I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades. Votes: 2 Levon Helm
I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation. Votes: 1 Tommy Caldwell
Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone. Votes: 2 Maya Angelou
I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot. Votes: 4 Marilyn Monroe
The senator has got to understand if he's going to have - he can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road. Votes: 4 George W. Bush
Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient. Votes: 3 Charles Williams
Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys. Votes: 1 Kaley Cuoco
The only time I had what you would call life-threatening fear was when I was on the Moon. Towards the end of our stay, we got excited and we were going to do the high jump, and I jumped and fell over backwards. That was a scary time, because if the backpack got broken, I would have had it. But everything held together. Votes: 5 Charles Duke
Once you get on the playing field it's not about whether you're liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That's what it's about. Votes: 2 LeBron James
How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels? Votes: 3 Sonia Rykiel
Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right. Votes: 3 Jim Harrison
There is no response to stubbornly by many posed the question of the meaning of expeditions in the high mountains. I've never felt the need for such a definition. I walked to mountains and defeated them. That's all. Votes: 3 Jerzy Kukuczka
I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher. Votes: 4 Kara DioGuardi
Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not? Votes: 4 Luciano Pavarotti
Getting high off life is more than enough, and peer pressure ain't peer pressure when a boy is tough. Votes: 3 Kool Moe Dee
Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. Votes: 2 Harry S Truman
â¦He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for a few days, I knew I could get anything I wanted from him. Votes: 3 Charles Bukowski
You get addicted to emotions. Our endorphins kick in and it's like a high. On the low end you might love roller coasters. On the high end you might be a bank robber or something. Votes: 2 Bryan Cranston
A high percentage of organisations develop a military rationale, whereby only a very small number of people make all of the decisions. There is little wonder, then, that people aren't keen to get out of bed and come to work on a Monday morning. Votes: 2 Ricardo Semler
China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies. Votes: 4 Charles Bass
An approachable and authentic CEO is essential to fostering a high-performance, open communications culture. Votes: 1 Scott Weiss
The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me. Votes: 1 Francis Ford Coppola
Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places. Votes: 5 Tamae Watanabe
O Shepherd. You said you would make my feet like hinds' feet and set me upon High Places". "Well", he answered "the only way to develop hinds' feet is to go by the paths which the hinds use. Votes: 3 Hannah Hurnard
North Carolina is a fascinating state, because you've got these urban areas. You've got the Piedmont Triangle - Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point. Votes: 3 Julianne Malveaux
At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one's spirituality. Votes: 1 James McGreevey
High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society. Votes: 3 Carl Hart
In a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere. Votes: 4 Will Cotton
Embraces are comminglings from the head even to the feet, And not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place. Votes: 4 William Blake
As delineated in the biblical book of Leviticus, Israel's atonement was achieved, year after year, through the sacrifices brought on that day by the high priest. Votes: 1 Meir Soloveichik
A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it. Votes: 2 Lindsay Wagner
I think having worked in a department store setting, if my life had not taken a drastically different turn when I became an actor, there's a very high probability I would have continued to work at the department store. Votes: 3 Cory Monteith
I've come to understand that migraine is a part of the personality. I have migraine troughs. These often follow high productivity. I have a hypo-manic phase, then I'll crash. Votes: 3 Siri Hustvedt
I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not. Votes: 2 Bill Murray
Even though people involved in racing think that it has a big sporting stage, it is a minority sport compared to some of the other high-profile events: football, Formula One or golf. Votes: 2 Tony McCoy
Shopping in Thailand is super cheap and generally high quality. Bangkok is also safe. If you see anybody wearing camouflage holding a machete, don't be scared. They sell coconuts. Votes: 2 Bobby Lee
Alaska Airlines and I have a lot in common, so coming together to delight travelers with savory, high quality food from the Pacific Northwest made sense. Votes: 3 Tom Douglas
The problem with entrepreneurship is we are often working really hard producing high quality products that no-one wants. The creation of stuff is not valued. Votes: 3 Eric Ries
Create quality art.... meaningful, passionate and high quality work! If it's not meaningful to you, how can you expect it to be meaningful to anyone else? Votes: 3 Cory Trepanier
By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have put them in high rises and asked them to live their lives in urban settings, disconnected from the land. Votes: 4 Adam Dell
Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house. Votes: 2 Bjarke Ingels
Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work. Votes: 4 David Remnick
If it was really successful, it was a life calling, a career I was excited about doing, so I didn't think the overall risk was anywhere near as high as what the reward was. Votes: 1 John Hickenlooper
Twins are a high-risk pregnancy, by definition. The quieter I am, the longer I can keep them growing. Votes: 1 Jane Pauley
The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded. Votes: 2 Scott Hamilton
North Vegas is where you go if you're a hooker turning forty and the syndicate men on the strip decide you're no longer much good for business out there with the high rollers. Votes: 3 Hunter S. Thompson
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. Votes: 4 Kurt Vonnegut
My biggest advice for high school girls is to not take yourself so seriously. Votes: 1 Jillian Rose Reed
When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?' Votes: 4 Wynton Marsalis
I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life. Votes: 1 Alanis Morissette
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. Votes: 2 Kurt Vonnegut
Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age. Votes: 4 Adora Svitak
The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can't even spell. I don't even have a high school diploma. I'm smart, but you can't prove it on paper. Votes: 5 Ron White
Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class. Votes: 3 Phil Lesh
I'm a skinny, geeky, high school dropout - it works, kids! Sensitive guys always get the girl. You'll get laid 10 times as much as that guy on the football team 'cause he's on steroids and he's gonna get fat. Votes: 2 Dave Grohl
I didn't go to high school, so I don't have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school. Votes: 4 Josh Hutcherson
When you think of the former high school football star, you think 6-foot-2, white, meathead as the model for that kind of character. Since I'm not 6-foot-2 or white, I just thought about what I could bring to it. I thought about Smash Williams from 'Friday Night Lights,' like the cocky quarterback, and played around with that. Votes: 2 Donald Glover
The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver's permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school and twirl one's car keys like a lifeguard whistle. That jingling sound meant freedom and power. Votes: 4 Sloane Crosley
I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation. Votes: 5 Maureen Forrester
I swam a little bit in high school but I wasn't a jock. Votes: 1 Joel Silver
Everybody is an expert on one thing - that's what I learned in my high school journalism class - and that's, of course, his own life. And everybody deserves to live and have his story told. And if it doesn't seem like an interesting story, then that's the failure of the listener, or the journalist who retells it badly. Votes: 3 William T. Vollmann
When I got out of high school, I thought, 'I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school.' More than 40 years later, I figure it's finally time to write about this crazy journey that's taken me around the world and back. Votes: 1 Gregg Allman
I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition. Votes: 2 Jim Brown
I used to sit in bed at night and flip through design-school catalogs. I found out that Parsons accepted a small number of high school juniors, so I applied my sophomore year and got in. Votes: 3 Chris Benz
I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life. Votes: 4 Vanessa Minnillo
We've got to go to the people with bold ideas and candidates of conviction - we've got to be hotter than high school love. Votes: 4 Jim Hightower
I actually had a movie green lit at Disney the same week 'Burlesque' was green lit - a movie for Disney called 'Mash-Up', about a high school marching band. Votes: 3 Steve Antin
It often strikes me that the actors in high school movies look too old. Votes: 2 Roger Ebert
I had died and woken up in High School Musical Votes: 5 Jamie McGuire
High school for me was not all that fun. I think it's a lot more fun after when you realize that high school ends, and everything that's important at that time is sort of not important if people don't like your jeans or whatever. It doesn't matter. Votes: 1 Leighton Meester
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry. Votes: 1 E. W. Howe
I can't put this delicately - everyone goes to their high school reunion wanting to see who they 'beat.' Votes: 6 Megyn Price
I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it. Votes: 2 E. O. Wilson
Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year college. Votes: 4 Ruben Hinojosa
In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.' Votes: 2 Jimmy Carter
I coach a high school wrestling team and a middle school team. I consider myself a coach and an activist, so I'm really involved in the community. Votes: 3 Nate Parker
I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things. Votes: 5 Guillermo Diaz
My high school years were exactly like 'Superbad.' Votes: 4 Seth Rogen
When I tell people I work to stop hazing in high schools I am almost always met with shocked expressions. 'High school? Really? I thought that was something that only arrogant frat guys do in college.' But it's true - as long as I have worked on preventing bullying in high schools, I have worked to prevent hazing. Votes: 2 Rosalind Wiseman
My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin. Votes: 3 Oscar Levant
Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else. Votes: 2 Nathaniel Branden
I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life. Votes: 4 Marat Safin
But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions. Votes: 3 Homer
Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence. Votes: 3 Mary Quant
In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth. Votes: 2 John Olver
I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create. Votes: 4 Yousuf Karsh
I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I'm not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person - love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship. Votes: 1 Jennifer Lopez
Develop serenity and quiet attitudes through your conversation. Depending upon the words we use and the tone in which we use them, we can talk ourselves into being nervous, high-strung, and upset. By our speech, we can also achieve quiet reactions. Talk peaceful to be peaceful. Votes: 2 Norman Vincent Peale
New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush. Votes: 2 Andrew Cuomo
Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time. Votes: 4 Richard Rogers
The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology. Votes: 4 Robert Harris
If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar. Votes: 3 Paul Prudhomme
We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past. Votes: 3 Louise Slaughter
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more. Votes: 4 William Wordsworth
High Times magazine is a notch intellectually below Highlights for Children. I mean, they're both great to read when you're baked, but come on, ya know... Votes: 3 David Cross
I learned more at The Second City than I did at Yale for all that high tuition. Votes: 3 Robert Klein
I could have easily been a statistic. Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., it was easy - a little too easy - to get into trouble. Surrounded by poor schools, lack of resources, high unemployment rates, poverty, gangs and more, I watched as many of my peers fell victim to a vicious cycle of diminished opportunities and imprisonment. Votes: 2 Al Sharpton
Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country. Votes: 4 Robert Hewison
We've had distressed edges. We've had culottes. We've had high waisted jeans, we've seen the heralding of the new bootcut back again. I'm so sorry to say this to you, but the only way forward is ultra-hipsters, you know? Like super-low cut, low-rider jeans, to the extreme. Votes: 3 Alexa Chung
My style is ghetto chic. I love tacky jewelry, mega heels, high-waisted shorts, catsuits. Votes: 1 Jessie J
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. Votes: 2 Oprah Winfrey
The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan. Votes: 2 Garrison Keillor
It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together. Votes: 2 Alexander McQueen
Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met. Votes: 2 Adam Braun
I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes. Votes: 2 Christine O'Donnell
When David Fincher called me up a few years ago and said, 'Hey, I'd like you to score this film 'The Social Network,' I said, 'I'm flattered, but I really don't have any real experience scoring films, and I'd rather not screw it up on a high-profile project. And I like you and I don't want to compromise our friendship.' Votes: 2 Trent Reznor
I'm left-handed, and it's not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. I've only owned two of them. Votes: 2 Kurt Cobain
In New York, FEMA granted the Mamaroneck Beach & Yacht Club's request to be remapped from the high-risk flood zone in August 2012 - just two months before the club was damaged and its outbuildings destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, which stacked up yachts at its docks like pick-up sticks. Votes: 2 Bill Dedman
My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for 'Reggie-isms,' kind of like 'Yogi-isms.' He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, 'You mean ambidextrous, coach?' Votes: 2 Peyton Manning
A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads. Votes: 2 Michelle Malkin
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. Votes: 2 Vincent Van Gogh
For the most part neoconservatives are people who were once liberals but sobered up. The neoliberal is one who has always been a liberal but now replaces the sentimental pieties with brusque slogans ("High-Tech!") and unpronounceable programs. All else stays the same. Votes: 3 Emmett Tyrrell
I rendezvous with the long wire and perform the 'torero walk', gliding my feet, holding the pole away from my body, head high. Votes: 1 Philippe Petit
I rendezvous with the long wire and perform the 'torero walk', gliding my feet, holding the pole away from my body, head high. Votes: 1 Philippe Petit
Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are. Votes: 1 Felix Baumgartner
My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always. Votes: 4 Taylor Swift
I don't think I really know just how cool Satan really was when I was in Junior High School. Now, thanks to Marilyn Manson, it's no longer a secret. Votes: 4 Jim Coleman
I didn't figure out the makeup or cute hair or clothes until oh, maybe my junior year of high school. Votes: 2 Catherine Bell
My friends always laugh because I'm the kind of person who bought the Brooks Brothers school skirt, even though it's not my school's uniform skirt, but just because I liked it. I'm a knee-high socks kind of person. Votes: 1 Yara Shahidi
I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck. Votes: 3 Ernest Borgnine
I had a lot of friends in high school who said, 'Louie, I don't care what the government does as long as they leave me alone.' Well, guess what, when you don't care what the government does, it does not leave you alone. Votes: 1 Louie Gohmert
My earliest thought, long before I was in high school, was just to go away, get out of my house, get out of my city. I went to Medford High School, but even in grade school and junior high, I fantasized about leaving. Votes: 1 Paul Theroux
Debt can be the most addictive thing in the universe, and it can kill you. You get used to living high off the hog. It was intoxicating. Votes: 4 Harvey Weinstein
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. Votes: 2 Helen Keller
I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I'm loving to do. And if that doesn't happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I'll have my high heels on. Votes: 1 Dolly Parton
Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love. Votes: 1 Eric Kandel
You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much. Votes: 1 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I had managers approaching me in high school asking me if I wanted to act professionally, but to me, having to miss school to do that meant missing time with my friends, which was completely unacceptable. Votes: 1 Chris Lowell
Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape. Votes: 4 Shania Twain
Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself. Votes: 1 Shannon Miller
On a very long and very high wire, I will not hope to not be blown off by high winds. I will have the certitude that such could not happen. Votes: 1 Philippe Petit
When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change. Votes: 1 Robert Rodriguez
There's high, and there's high, and to get really high - I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high-that's where I'm going. Votes: 2 George Harrison
When you walk on the road and people scream out your name, the high is unparalleled. Votes: 2 Esha Gupta
Being tall is very good for reaching high shelves and seeing in a crowd. Sadly, it has also given me the inability to dance. There's too much of me to look neat, which is most disappointing. Votes: 3 Miranda Hart
Whatever I feel comfortable in is usually what I'll wear. I go to different events and premieres and walk the red carpet... those things are awkward enough on their own. You don't want to be pulling up a top all night. I will sacrifice foot comfort though. I love high heels. Votes: 2 Mandy Moore
Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up. Votes: 1 Jack Canfield
It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting. Votes: 2 Steve Buscemi
I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years. Votes: 4 Nat Wolff
I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them. Votes: 1 Stephen Colbert
I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them. Votes: 1 Stephen Colbert
Shake It Up' definitely teaches kids about the importance of reaching for your dreams and setting high goals. It also teaches great lessons about friendship and family. Votes: 3 Zendaya
Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to. Votes: 3 Greg Anderson
I dream of working with iconic directors such as Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann, Terry Gilliam and Wes Anderson - so I'm setting my sights pretty high! My perfect role would be in a fairy-tale period piece, and I'm quite upset all the Harry Potter movies have been made as I'd love to have been in those. Votes: 1 Dree Hemingway
Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to. Votes: 1 Greg Anderson
The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug. Votes: 4 Patty Murray
Learn all you can. Growth comes from setting your goals high and reaching for the stars. Votes: 3 Spencer W. Kimball
I'm still fly, I'm sky high and I dare anybody to try and cut my wings Votes: 4 Drake
My son graduated high school and went to Haiti to work for his dad's organization and then extended his stay. It's incredible what he's doing. Votes: 1 Robin Wright
I played sports in high school and in college. Votes: 4 Jon Bernthal
I'm going to take the high road because the low road is so crowded. Votes: 4 Mia Farrow
We were living in Denver, Colorado, and I was teaching high school. I asked the kids to write a short story, so I thought I should write some myself. Votes: 3 Adrian McKinty
As delineated in the biblical book of Leviticus, Israel's atonement was achieved, year after year, through the sacrifices brought on that day by the high priest. Votes: 3 Meir Soloveichik
I really focused on three things in high school - my company, basketball and my school work. Votes: 2 Ben Casnocha
I'm amazed when I see mothers wearing high heels. If your kids run off you can't run after them. Votes: 3 Claudia Schiffer
I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years. Votes: 4 Patrick Wilson
In high school, sometimes you just can't help who you have a crush on and who you fall for! If you fall for one of your friend's exes, for example, it's really all about communication and telling your friend. Hiding it is never a good thing. Votes: 1 Jillian Rose Reed