Quotes About High

You will carry into eternity the product of your investment in this life. Life is too short and the stakes too high to live mediocre lives.

What I noticed about the West Coast bands was that they had awful rhythm sections. The bassist was just the guy who couldn't play guitar as well as the other guy. In Detroit, the bar was very high—it was the home of Motown.

not most, of the high-steel workers were Caughnawaga Mohawks from upstate New York.

I had a classic gym teacher in junior high who wore a weightlifter's belt all the time.

Epictetus: "The judgment seat and a prison is each a place, the one high, the other low; but the attitude of your will can be kept the same, if you want to keep it the same, in either place.

I think he felt the need to make a noble gesture, something to prove to us and to himself that it was in fact possible to put those high cold principles which Julian had taught us to use. Duty, piety, loyalty, sacrifice.

Minie balls and repeating rifles. That was why the body count was so high. We had trench warfare in America way before WW1. p128

In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

The world was so unbearably pretty, and it continued being so all the way down the mountain to school. I felt slightly high because of the beauty, and the inside of my head tickled. I wondered if this is how artists go through life, with all of its sensations tickling their craniums like a peacock feather..

It was L.A. after all; storefronts advertised the availability of Botox at the beach. There were also storefronts that advertised the doctor was in and ready to see to your medical marijuana card. I didn't see the need. Just walking the boardwalk got you a contact high.

I don't like dirt. Cleanliness is high on my agenda, but I don't have a phobia of dirt. I'm just not keen on it. I don't really like dirty people or houses or smelly things.

Most guys with toupees overcompensate. They want too much hair. They end up piling it high, looking like a weird flower.

We were shooting at the Kodak Theatre and to see my production company's clap board in front of Sylvester Stallone was overwhelming, I had to pinch myself. It was a magical moment. It was a different high.

In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects.

I'm gonna keep Very Rare as a street brand. I wanna make a new clothing brand and group. It's gonna be more... high fashion.

I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.

Warhol had resonance because it was high art and low art. And you could argue about it endlessly.

There is no such thing as guaranteed high investment returns. Be wary of anyone who promises that you will receive a high rate of return on your investment with little or no risk.

A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.

Between high dunes and low dunes and sea oats she walked, a blonde nomad wandering among shorebirds.

The biggest high for me was to marry Rajesh Khanna. That was a high, and I don't think my success was as much of a high as getting married to this superstar. I used to be a big fan of his; it was dream come true.

My parents have always had pretty high expectations, but they're very supportive.

I was fired. For insubordination. I test very high on insubordination

Down the wide, cool center hall I head to the shadowy, high, tin-ceilinged kitchen that smells of garlic, fruit and refrigerator freon, where I unload my wine into the big Sub-Zero.