On A High Quotes

High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.

High School made me realize that the people who say they will never change, are always the ones who change the most.

I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and because they were great, I thought very little about them in high school.

The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14 pages of notes.

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

Terry Gross. I would rush home from high school to listen to Terry Gross.

You still remember your SAT scores. And everybody else does too. Everybody's forgotten everything about themselves, everything else about high school. They remember their SAT scores.

I went straight out of high school, and when I was 17, all I wanted to do was play guitar.

I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.

Hairspray is the only movie I made that's subversive, because they're doing it in every high school in America. A man's playing a woman, and two men sing a love song to each other.

I hitchhiked at high school. My parents thought was a perfectly normal thing to do even though God knows I got blown a lot of times riding home from school.

I played sports in high school and in college.

I was also sitting in from the middle of senior year of high school at Sweet Basil, it was a great club in New York.

I didn't always have time to practice as much as I wanted to do, that was a real problem for me in high school and college.

High school. You know, people say, 'I'll never do so-and-so again' - then they do it. So what? Sometimes somebody has crack, and you're looking to stay awake.

In public, Barack Obama's giving the simple version of his beliefs for the mass public. In private, he can discuss it at a really high level.

I went to a local high school in Lancaster. Not much I can say about it; it was pretty much your typical public high school back in Pennsylvania.

The caviar was very high quality. I made an acting decision on the spot that Ismay was a big eater.

Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.

I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.

Even now that I'm married and 28, my room's still intact the way it was when I went to high school.

My mother has a very chic sense of style, but she also has high expectations for her clothes to be functional and practical.

You don't have to get high or need drugs to experience the Juggalo freshness. But you do need to get high to experience the whole Phish freshness.

I think my formative experiences were really in junior high, where at a typical public school we were doing little genetic experiments, very classic experiments.

I didn't go to high school, so I don't have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school.

I've always been attracted to ensembles. When I started doing plays in high school and in college, I always loved the community aspect of it. I loved these little families that would develop.

The girls in high school who watched 90210? I was watching Seinfeld.

I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since high school.

Honestly, I wasn't that girl in high school who people spread rumors about.

I can't help it! I'm just a woman with high standards!

I did my English A level in England, and we studied Shakespeare. I had great, great high school teachers, and we parsed the text within an inch of its life.

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!