Quotes of: High-standards Keyword

Rule #3 - It's okay to believe yourself better than the rest of the planet, so long as you keep it to yourself.

Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 6

You boys can keep your virgins, give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old.

Love is a Dog from Hell

I've never been high. Writing is my drug of choice. You don't ever have to come down from that kind of high, I tell ya. And, best part is, it's free.

The Little Silkworm

School life is like being on a monkey mountain...monkeys in the same gang constantly fight and get back together again...and a hierarchy gets established.

Monkey High!, Vol. 1

If a boy doesn't respect his mother...run!

Suzy Freaking Q: The Defintive Renegade High School Handbook on What to Say and What to Do about Guys, Friends, Parents and More.

Keep your head down, Edward. Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron

The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.

Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron

If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.

Sputnik Sweetheart

But you have to remember...that you can't run from unhappiness. You just take it with you.

Tout Sweet: Hanging Up My High Heels For A New Life In Rural France

High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.

Paper Towns

Brookfield High School. How may I direct your call? No, sir, this is not a waste- disposal unit, I'm afraid you have the wrong number.

The Year of Secret Assignments

Back in high school, I started a gang called “The Illiterates.” To easily identify fellow gang members, we all wore letterman jackets.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

I'm more in that Rafa Nadal high-energy high-octane mold out there. I wear that emotion on the court. That's how I play my best tennis. People either like that or not. And I can't change that: that's who I am on a tennis court.

Lleyton Hewitt

And for a split second Cleo saw the value in living openly. Liberation was Windex for the soul. It let the light shine through. But why dwell? Nothing was ever going to change.

Monster High: The Ghoul Next Door

I was a defensive lineman coming out of high school who was considered amongst the top... maybe the top six guys, top five guys, and wanted to prove to my team that I was going to be a top guy going into college.

Ndamukong Suh

There was a film class in my high school in Northfield, Minnesota, which was very unusual. I saw my first Buster Keaton film there, aged about 15. It made a gigantic impression on me.

Siri Hustvedt

I studied Latin in high school, and I was reading stuff from Cicero. And that signal took a few thousand years to get to me. But I was still interested in what he had to say.

Seth Shostak

Luckily for me, when I was growing up in high school, I had a band, and I was a singer in the band. I'm less of a legit Broadway singer than I am a pop-rock singer.

Stark Sands

In high school I wrote an essay on baseball and my teacher told me I had to rewrite it on a more serious topic. So I wrote an essay about the World Series and my teacher gave up.

Tucker Elliot

I changed high schools three times because my parents moved. I had one friend my freshman year named Miki Vukovich. Miki and I were the only skaters in our high school. He runs my foundation now.

Tony Hawk

I was a lot more cultured than the other kids in my high school. Because I traveled, I understood different cultures and had a more worldly view. Most of the people I went to high school with had never been outside of California.

Tony Hawk