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.

I find my dress sense tends to be a bit of a mixture between high fashion and unique vintage pieces with a little bit of street trends. For example, I might find a really nice,...

As a songwriter, I do kind of look at ‘Santa Monica’ as a thing outside of itself, because it isn’t just my song. This is a song a lot of people tell me is a...

I have a hard time finding high boots that go up to your knee, because of the shape of my calves.

When I was in high school, I don’t know that I really had big dreams.

Birds of the same feathers flock together, and when they flock together they fly so high.

The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

My high school career counsellor said I shouldn’t pursue music as a career.

I started working when I was very young. I got an agent when I was 12, and fortunately was employed consistently from that point on. So I didn’t really go to a conventional high school....

I used to be scared of uncertainty; now I get a high out of it.

In high school, I had to hide my comic book side, my nerd side from the civilian world so they wouldn’t categorize me. They would try to marginalize me for what I like. I tried...

Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was looking for. Once that had got cleared up, from 13 on, that was...

The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

I don’t care if Facebook’s valuation goes to one gillion. It can go so high we have to make up numbers. It is still not a bubble because there is still not another Facebook in...

As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.

Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.

I went to my last three years of high school in New Jersey. I just wanted to act, you know?

Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else.

I was a jock in college and high school, but I didn’t hang out with the jocks. I was sort of a nerd who didn’t look like a nerd. I never really fit into any...