I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.
I hate mirrors; every time I look in one I see things that could be improved. If I could give my younger self any advice it would be: ‘Take a deep breath, the world is not ending – and do something with your hair. ’ I had the same haircut from when I was a toddler all the way through high school, it was this weird side-parting. I didn’t like change.
Leaders who led their organizations quietly and humbly, were much more effective than flashy, charismatic high profile leaders.
I feel like to be where you need to be - where you know you need to be - is such a high. What could be better?
Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.
I had grown up and gone to high school in New York, so I wanted to get out of the east coast.
You cannot apply your high standards to a country [Egypt] burdened with decades of autocratic rule. Our democracy is still in its infancy.
The Summer after high school, when we first met, we make out in your Mustang, to Radiohead, and on my 18th birthday, we got matching tattoes, Used to steal your parents liquor, then climb to the roof, Talk about our future like we had a clue, Never thought I'd wondering I'd be losing you In another life, I would be your belle
Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing, Never a bird, but the passionless chant of insects, Ceaseless, insistent. The grasshopper's horn, and far-off, high in the maples, The wheel of a locust leisurely grinding the silence Under a moon waning and worn, broken, Tired with summer.
My first debate in high school--"Resolved: Girls are no good"--and I won!
I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G. E. D. when I was 16; I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.
Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.
The women with high social pressure seem to be amongst the strongest carriers of the possibility of breast cancer.
I was short and I had a really high voice, and now my voice is low and I'm tall.
I hold in my hands the very soul of a man. What more dare a woman ask of the high gods?
When I was in high school, I wasn't a troublemaker. I didn't get in fights. I was a good student and I had a lot of friends.
For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.
The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.
YOU YOU YOU your eyes, thick as a high school scrapbook crackling and yellow, curling at the edges a book of myths in which i do not appear.
As my mom says, I was a little bit of a slacker in high school. I really was just kind of unmotivated, a little bit lazy, so my grades weren't that good.
