High Quotes

I went to public school up until junior high.

My forehead is sometimes too high, but bangs could correct this.

I learned in high school that I was going to have to outwork people. I remember running around the track, training for football, and a faster guy ran past me. I just figured, I can outlast him. If I work harder than him, I'll beat him. And to this day I overprepare.

In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do.

I did play Jesus in 'Godspell,' in high school, because I guess I'm a nerd.

The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.

Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

I don't want to return to the past. I don't yearn for when I was 18 years old. I was in high school then. I had acne. I had a terrible hairdo. I'm sure I was sporting polyester pants.

Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.

Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.

Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death.

Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress.

I have to say I've worked very few days of my life. I used to have to cut the lawn, and when I was in junior high school, I worked at a concession stand at a stadium.

When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb.

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.

And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.

The other thing I knew I had was a high level of competitiveness.

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.

I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.

I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science by enrolling me amongst its members.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.

Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.

For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.

I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991.

In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.