high quotes

“The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.”

“The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.”

“Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.”

“Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage. ”

“The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool. ”

“Envy aims very high. ”

“Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.”

“Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers. ”

“When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.”

“I like to keep my budgets at a certain price when I work for someone else, and even more so now that I'm working for myself, and use new technologies to deliver films that look like they have high production levels. ”

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”

“I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school. ”

“I got along better with the guys than with the girls. Only two girls came up to talk to me. Later I found out they were telling their boyfriends, 'If you talk to her, I'll kill you.' It's always rough with that high school thing.”

“I've been really at the highest levels of American political life. ”

“You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life. ”

“Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature. ”

“You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around. ”

“Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. ”

“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. ”

“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”

“If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.”

“Music is a safe kind of high.”

“White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.”

“Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.”

“You can't really have like high end designers for everything.”

“And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.”

“Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.”

“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.”

“The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.”