High Quotes

I've always loved acting with adults versus like the whole High School feel.

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.

I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.

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.

It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished.

Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high school, when I was 15 years old.

The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck.

I've gone pretty high at times so I think the yin yang of that is going pretty low.

Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do.

I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.

With all of the holiday cheer in the air, it's easy to overlook the ingredients in the foods. Ingredients such as salt, sugar, and fat - all of which leads to diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, strokes, heart disease, and cancer.

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.

Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.

It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs.

From when I was a really small girl on, I would pick every fabric, every color on the walls, and I was always redecorating. Like once every couple of months I would redecorate my room. I had a full wall that was all collage - the entire wall - when I was in junior high. And then it would kind of morph with me as I was growing.

When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.

We do spend time talking about it and we puzzle through it together. We ride the roller coasters together - the high highs and the low lows.

I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me.

High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.

It was my proudest moment as a manager when England drew 0-0 with Italy in Rome to qualify for the World Cup finals. Fifteen years later, the stakes are equally high for both countries as they go head-to-head for a semi-final place at the European Championship.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.

The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.

When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music, and the same teacher invited me back to speak at the school. I don't say that to brag, I just want to be an example.

We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt without crisis.

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.