On A High Quotes

What happens in our lives is not really anybody's fault but our own... When I was in high school, I was in an atheist crowd, and it was the consensus that religion was a crutch.

I was a jaded high schooler, I was still into pop music, though not as sincerely as I am now. It was more tongue-in-cheek back then.

I think lowering the age of consent to thirteen in New Jersey was a great idea. It might give boys a better chance to get girls before maga­zines. That's when they get hooked, in junior high.

One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.'

Our own lives feel so disordered and confusing, so it's amazing to me that the filmmakers caught the personal, emotional high points and low points of my life and not just the public aspects.

On some level, I think everyone felt like a dork in high school.

I went to Samuel Ayer High School, which is now Milpitas High Schoo.

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.

In high school, I read 'Silas Marner' and I was very attracted to this character - he was very rundown and he'd just stop, and things would happen around him.

My mom and dad met at Anaheim High School. After they got married, all they wanted to do was have four children, and they did.

My mom and dad met at Anaheim High School.

What's the use of a high school education if you can't recall it when needed later on?

I wrote a lot of poetry in the last two years of high school, all about the same girl I was in love with. That was pretty awful. Did you know that in poetry, every line does not need to rhyme?

She said I've heard you flying high on my radio I answered "It's not all it seems" That's when she laughed and she said, "It's better sometimes When we don't get to touch our dreams.

Now, a 45-degree angle is not something we deal with in finance. It's something you see in a high school geometry class. Performance like that has never been recorded in human history.

I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn't sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you're a teenager and you go to high school and you're in the business and you are known.

It's very important with an artificial leg that all high heels are exactly the same height.

I had a serious boyfriend in high school, but we would take breaks in between. You shouldn't always have a boyfriend!

I didn’t like to dress up in high school. I wore pajamas all the time. Or I would have my hair in a high bun from dance, and just wear dance clothes.”

The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them.

Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art.

Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there.

I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time.

After chasing after [Donald] Trump like a lovelorn high school girl the evangelicals are in no position to ask for anything. Ever.

In high school I was the manager of the football team, so being around boys is natural to me!

I'm not really high-strung now, but I was a very high-strung child.

By the time I got to high school I knew what I was gonna do. Mainly because I looked around and saw there wasn't much else I was able to do. I was a criminal. I was a juvenile delinquent.

Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience.

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.

My mother worked in fashion design and she used to show me all of these looks. She tried to get me to wear fitted jeans in high school. This is when big jeans were popping.

I threw all my clothes away from high school.

I was the hallway clown in high school.

I do have high expectations, like anyone does. I expect myself to do well. It comes with all of the work I've put in and what I expect from that work.

Another cultural thing that's really creepy. It's not like in the '60s, where there were definitely great high points of creativity where people were trying to outdo each other to be noticed even.

My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

My parents are OK with me wearing a small heel, up to 1.5 inches high. Heels give me height when I wear such long dresses. For me, they complete the outfit.

How can we ask for our young stars to have a high level of responsibility if we are not demonstrating that same level of responsibility towards them?

Many of the African musicians are well-schooled and well-versed...what they do takes a high level of musicianship.

My brother was an improviser. He's now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city when he was in high school, and one of the funniest guys I know to this day.

I've always had high ambitions and aspirations.

We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.

I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored.

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

For some reason, when I was in junior high school, my friends and I had, like, a cologne-stealing ring.

I was voted best-looking kid in high school but, as you can see, things changed. I used to say I was a 260-pound Woody Allen. You can make that 295-pound now.

What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.

And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.

It’s a world where high school students look roughly twenty-four.

I've been running since high school. My boyfriend was on the track team, and I'd run with him.

I did all the musicals in my high school; I was in a pop group signed to Cash Money Records in college. Music has always been a really big part of my life.