I Quotes
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“In high school, I went to a place called the Mountain School. It's on a farm in Vermont, and I read Emerson and Thoreau and ran around the woods. Now I go hiking with a bunch of my comedy buddies. We talk about our emotions. I also do a lot of writing on hikes, just to get the blood flowing and the ideas moving.”
“In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.”
“In high school, I would drive my teachers batty. They would make a statement, and I would say, 'Why is that?' They didn't want to be questioned.”
“In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught "creative writing." We were taught literature and grammar. So no one ever told me I couldn't write both prose and poetry, and I started out writing all the things I still write: poetry, prose fiction - which took me longer to get published - and non-fiction prose.”
“In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.”
“In high school, it was all about popularity, being with the boyfriend and all the girls thinking he's cute.”
“In high school, my desire for friendship far outweighed my talent for it.”
“In high school, my first thing ever was I played Tony in West Side Story when I was about 17. I was a really shy kid and I just like forced myself to learn how to sing this one month because I loved West Side Story so much and I somehow managed to get the role. I had an afro and glasses, and the guy who cast me goes, "All right, the first thing to go is the afro and the next thing, I'm going to buy you contacts and we're going to get you..." So he kind of molded me into what it had to - that's still probably the hardest role I've every played in anything, the most taxing role.”
“In high school, my friend and I discovered that your cable-access station had to let you do whatever you wanted - it was like the Wild West. We made a couple weird things, like a tribute to the Zucker brothers, where we had a panel discussion about the Naked Gun movies. We wrote a script and made jokes that I'm sure were terrible and showed clips of The Naked Gun without permission.”
“In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.”
“In high school, my prom date fooled around with another guy - on prom night!”
“In high school, my sister went out with the captain of the chess team. My parents loved him... They figured that any guy that took hours to make a move was okay with them.”
“In high school, people are sometimes encouraged to be like everyone else. What's so great about this show is that these kids are weird and different and over-achievers. They know what they want and they're going after it. They're weird and they don't deny it. That's what makes it special.”
“In high school, some of the guys were really into music. When I first joined the team as a sophomore, I was blown away when we came out for our first home matchI'm getting goose bumps just thinking about it. The seniors would bring their whole stereo system. We started by yelling and stuff inside this little room just off the gym; then the coaches said, "Ready. Go!" We threw open the door and came running out. Even when I hear the songs now I get all jacked up.”
“In high school, theater was all I ever wanted to do. I didnt see that I was going to set it aside for so many years and take a right turn into television. Of course, wanting to do theater is something you hear a lot from actors. I think Ive been embarrassed to be in that big cliche.”
“In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.”
“In high school, when I first heard of entropy, I was attracted to it immediately. They said that in nature all systems are breaking down, and I thought, What a wonderful thing; perhaps I can make some small contribution to this process, myself.”
Source: Napalm & Silly Putty
“In high school, when I played football I got no respect. I shared a locker with a mop.”
Source: It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs
“In high school, when you're a top player, there are ways of getting eligible, ways of getting out of going to class. It made going to the next level, which is college, that much harder.”
“In high seas or in low seas, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend. In high tide or in low tide, I'll be by your side... I'll be by your side.”
“In high tide or in low tide,
I'll be by your side”
“In high vengeance there is noble scorn.”
Source: The Spanish gypsy
“In high-tax New York, in high-tax California, the governors of those states are constantly offering tax breaks, tax exemptions to any number of companies if they will locate in those states. The left does it all the time. We point it out every time we learn about it because it's hypocritical.”
“In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth.”
“In highschool I was very excited that alog(b)=blog(a), and still find it useful today.”
“In Hikar's arms, I forget what I am and where I am from. The idea of home no longer has gravity. I have flown off my orbit, chosen to follow meteors with no aim but to roam.”
Source: I Fell in Love With Hope
“In Hilbert space no one can hear you scream.”
“In Hilbert space, the classical states are just in one corner of the room, quantum attention functions are in the middle, and they are the matrix of cosmic functions that can collapse any other quantum wave function and transform the non-classical states into classical states in the Hilbert space.”
Source: Quantum Attention Function Theory
“In Him (God), history and prophecy are one and the same.”
“In him converge all previous streams of tendency, not as into a pool, stagnant, passive, motionless, but as a noble river that received its tributary waters and bearss them onward in larger and statelier volume.”
“In him I saw my furture In him I saw my friend In him I saw my destiny Both my beginning and end”
“In Him is Everything. Him you must try to find.”
“In Him there is no room for non-existence or imperfection”
“In Him we live and move and have our being.”
Source: The American Standard Bible: Version: ASV
“In him, you will never find any trace of arrogance because he is a reasonable man. He knows how to handle various people with wisdom and forbearance. His armour is patience, and his shield is substance. He understands that true strength is not in dominance but in benevolence.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“In hindsight everything is much clearer.”
“In hindsight he was glad it wasn't the good taco spot because it would have been ruined forever. Anyplace that charged seventy-five cents for condiments could burn in hell. On principle.”
Source: Emergency Contact
“In hindsight I can see that my love for the arts began by watching my father and his colleagues perform on stage in Jamaica, and running a muck among the exhibits of fabulous Jamaican art at the National Gallery while mum was upstairs curating.”
“In hindsight, I have no idea why he was ever with me. He thought highly of my breasts. And . . . that's it, I think.”
Source: Your Voice in My Head
“In hindsight, I'm shocked by my attitude. Ever rational and pragmatic, how did I manage to sweep away the evidence, the undeniable certainty of the end? I suppose I didn't want to be overcome by grief in advance.”
Source: Lie With Me
“In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.”
Source: Stars and Gods
“In hindsight, it's seen as inevitable that the two Germany's would reunite. But none of the people who had laid the groundwork for the fall-those who had started the tremors and endured the security forces' brutality-envisioned a unified Germany. Those people had sacrificed their places in society for the chance to form a new one, something different and distinct, an independent East Germany built form scratch. The hadn't looked to the West for inspiration before, and none of them looked to the West for salvation now that the border was open.”
Source: Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
“In hindsight, the grand hero ideal she always thought he encompassed chipped away and all that remained was a cheap imitation. He embodied everything she’d hidden from in her adolescence. Boyfriends, relationships, and sex all led to disaster. Being alone was better than shattered and broken like mother: disenchanted with the life she’d been forced into.”
Source: Disenchanted
“In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.”
“In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks.”
“In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.”
“In hindsight, I wish I had done more.”
“In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy, they call the world illusion; and in Latin the root of the word illusion is ludere, to play.”
Source: The essence of Alan Watts
“In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a mother who, as mine did, has three daughters, no sons, is supposed to go and hang herself, kill herself, because it is such an unlucky kind of motherhood to have.”
“In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.”
Source: Hindu Dharma