Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.

At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.

Somebody waits for the time I know will never comeYou get yourself so highThen you come down feeling blueOne day you’ll wake up and realize you’ve had enoughThere’s a thousand shining momentsWaiting just to happen...

When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.

I couldn’t say no to jobs and I couldn’t say no to drugs. I’d get high from a movie, I’d be somebody else because I didn’t particularly like me, so long as I had a...

To jump over centuries In one step is impossible. Jump too high or far, You’ll be way too late.

I wasn’t even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

I went to high school with Al Capone.

There are only two ways to remove the president – if he violates the constitution or commits high treason. How could anyone accuse me of treason after I had terminated Israel’s occupation of South Lebanon...

I think another problem people have is they are always searching for that high, and they don’t realize they can get that same high with that same person again.

There’s an interesting trend that occurs in times of mounting pressure and high uncertainty, which is that it’s a natural human tendency to seek out people that agree with us, that are similar to us...

Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free from a mud berth and swaying in its chains.

I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.

I’m remixing an R.E.M. track called ‘I’ve Been High’ from their last album, ‘Reveal.’ It’s a beautiful song, but record execs didn’t put it out as a single because it didn’t sound like the R.E.M....

If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there’s going...

By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.

There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don’t get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don’t get them.

When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.

I’ve never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

The first time I ever acted was in ‘The Glass Menagerie’ in high school, and my first line was, ‘I didn’t know Shakespeare had a sister.’

I’m urging NASA to foster the development of what I call ‘runway landers.’ No, that’s not the name of a high stakes gambler from Vegas. It’s a type of spacecraft that flies to orbit like...

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.

The vision of life is not a “discovery”; it’s a “work” and whatever position you occupy demands work. Your life may not be built on your visions if you go high and find yourself doing...

I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with these intricate wooden, windowed balconies.

I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren’t going to make any dough to pay the rent in music.

For me, it’s not about price. It’s about necessity, quality, and usefulness. Like, I have my Wet N Wild 666 lip liner. It’s 99 cents and always has been. I started using it when I...

And all I did was read, and when I was too high to read I stared out the windows.

At my high school, there were always kids carrying acoustic guitars around, which is why I named my band the Mountain Goats. I didn’t want to seem like one of those guys who brought his...

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it’s really the talk for those who have.

Be drunk in love and high on life.

My freshman year of high school was just awkwardness all around.

high” itself.

When I went to high school, in the late 1970s, disco was in full swing and anyone who was into it dressed the part. I know I did.

I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi’s ‘Winter’ and being so overwhelmed with emotion.

When I was in high school, I got bullied through social media – on the Internet, on my Facebook. That was hard for me, and I think social media has made it easy for people...

Safe care saves lives and saves money. Adverse events like high levels of infection, blood clots or falls in hospital, emergency readmissions and pressure sores cost the NHS billions of pounds every year. There is...

In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what other people thought of me. I thought of myself as just painfully awkward and dorky....

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.

I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college.

No drug or drink can match the high/kick that a Sale gives you! Though the feeling can never be expressed in words but I feel like I am the king and on top of this...

People who look down never get much of an idea of the sky where the stars are set. And the fellow who doesn’t hitch at least one or two of his wagons to a star...

I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because...

When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.

I would have been a visual artist. When I was in high school, that was one of the things… I had to make a decision what I was going to go to college for, and...

It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill’s character as to suggest to him any course of conduct that was not entirely upright...

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 always have high expectations for me.

I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation.

I get this buzz every time I’m quoted online. The ego high… yes… but also a Google Alert.

When you tell people you’re in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high school. But history can be exciting, intellectually rigorous, and fun.