On A High Quotes

We do not owe any soul, except that which played the most vital role in our lives.

I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee.

I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth. If I try hard enough, maybe I can gobble my whole self this way.... I didn't try hard enough to swallow myself.

I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.

Introvert, her brain responds with a high level of activity, it is as if several lights start flashing on a control panel.

I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary Americans who are very hardworking.

I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.

As a kid, I was obsessed with the Who. They were the most important band to me. Songs like "I'm One" helped me get through high school.

Most comedians weren't great athletes; that was the way they got noticed in high school.

There was no one really like John Bender at my high school.

I have like two dreams a week that I have to write a paper that I'm late with or that I've gone back to high school and have to do that in addition to my current job.

I'm a bad dater - I'm just not good at it. It's so weird dating in this town. It's like high school. I get a lot of people who have their publicist call my agent to ask, 'Is she dating anyone?

I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.

I love “The Autobiography of Malcolm X.” That was like the only black book we read in high school...

I'm a mix of a 14-year-old high schooler and a 60-year-old guy. It can never fall into the 30s or the 40s. It has to be 100 percent 60 or 100 percent 14, no in between.

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.

So,high heels weren't a modern invention. I couldn't believe women had been putting up with these torture devices for centuries.

Baby, high school's over. High school's never over.

I was a complete outsider in high school.

You never grow out of high school sadly.

To do high fashion, you have to go into a little bit of a higher price point.

I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.

I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.

Man who stands on toilet, gets high on pot!

I didn't go out on one date in high school. I played guitar and sang and wrote my own music and poetry and stuff when I was a teenager.

I'm hoping that with the high profile that the Go-Go's are going to have over the next year, that if anybody is interested in what else I do, I'll have something I can say that I do.

I love sports. I was an athlete in high school, and my school was so small we didn't have a football team, so it's the one sport I didn't bother to learn the rules to because I never went to game.

My goal was just to try and be the best player on my high school team, and look where I am now. And that was still my goal as a young kid, just to try and be a little better than my brother was.

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

I did play two years of high school football and was very short and uncoordinated but the second year I was very tall and skinny and very uncoordinated.

I do hang on to things. I was so happy my father saved his army jacket. I grew up wearing that all through high school.

I began reading in French. I didn't read in English until high school.

High heels off; I'm feeling alive.

It's frustrating in the sense that I still think I could be competing at some sport at a fairly high level, which nobody cares about. Nobody wants to hear me say that.

I actually didn't get to go to my prom. I left high school when I was 16 to join 'NSYNC. I felt that was something I always missed out on, and all my friends got to go and would tell me about it.

Do I feel pressure being a young player with high expectations? Nah.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

I'm terrible in high heels. I'm so bad.

I hate walking down a runway in really high heels. I'm terrible in high heels. I'm so bad.

I think that like most girls in high school, I just mirrored what was around me.

I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitude. And I don't have anyone to sit with.

Sometimes I think high school is one long hazy activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become an adult. I hope it's worth it.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

I think there's more pressure to stand out in a way that is measurable externally. The fame culture is definitely way worse and weirder than it was when we were in high school.

I read a lot of 'Spark Notes' in high school.

a pink taffeta evening gown. It looked like it had run away from a junior high prom... The dress looked like a petunia on steroids to me.

I did it once in high school - I was Sandy in Grease - and I decided then that I would never do it again. I've felt that way for years, and that's no bullshit.

Is death such a high price to pay, when you will die anyway?

In those days great teachers at Shortridge [High School] were celebrities. I would look up to them.

Being an actress is similar to trying to fit in with the popular kids in high school. You're expected to drive the right car, wear the right clothes and say the right things.