All Quotes

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.
‐‐ Paulo Costanzo

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.
‐‐ Illeana Douglas

In high school, my prom date fooled around with another guy - on prom night!
‐‐ Matthew Perry

In high school, my two older brothers ran track. They'd come home sweaty and mud-covered, and I could tell they enjoyed it. So I started running - I ran a mile down the road and back again - and I haven't stopped since.
‐‐ Mika Brzezinski

In high school, one of the things I loved doing was this after-school program where you would teach computer skills to some of the maintenance folks at school.
‐‐ Mike Krieger

In high school, people wanted to find the worst in me.
‐‐ Evangeline Lilly

In high school, sometimes you just can't help who you have a crush on and who you fall for! If you fall for one of your friend's exes, for example, it's really all about communication and telling your friend. Hiding it is never a good thing.
‐‐ Jillian Rose Reed

In high school, the fastest I ever ran was like a 4.67; that's pretty fast. But then, I only weighed 168 pounds.
‐‐ Gabriel Luna

In high school, theater was all I ever wanted to do. I didn't 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 I've been embarrassed to be in that big cliche.
‐‐ Mare Winningham

In high school, there are so many cliques. You're never safe.
‐‐ Blake Lively

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.
‐‐ Joanna Newsom

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.
‐‐ Jimmy Cliff

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.
‐‐ Reed Hastings

In hindsight, if I could go back in time and relay a message to my younger self, I would tell him to work on his time keeping, and that the job of a drummer is not to be the one that gets noticed the most on stage, or to be the fastest, or the loudest. Above all, it is to be the timekeeper.
‐‐ Taylor Hawkins

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
‐‐ Larry Niven

In hindsight, that time out of football gives you the hunger to want to get back to basics and play football.
‐‐ Alan Smith

In hindsight, Watergate was a curse as well as a blessing for American journalism. The courageous reporting of the 'Post' and the 'New York Times' - coupled with the favourable Supreme Court rulings on publication of the Pentagon Papers - were landmarks for the interpretation of First Amendment rights and the freedom of the press.
‐‐ Lionel Barber

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.
‐‐ Bharati Mukherjee

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
‐‐ B. R. Ambedkar

In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.
‐‐ Karen Salmansohn

In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I wanted to do is write stories... and affect someone's emotions with that song. I think as a soul singer, I'm able to accomplish that.
‐‐ Aloe Blacc

In hip hop, it's a lot more about lacing a hot track. I start it, I help mix it, I help write it, I help produce it, I cut the person's vocals. I'm involved from the beginning to the end of a song. I'm not just giving someone a beat, you know?
‐‐ Benny Blanco

In hip-hop, there's not a lot of love. There's not a lot of love being spread. It's always like 'I'm stuntin' on you raps, or I'm better than you raps.' It's not a lot of 'Yo man, I idolize you raps.'
‐‐ J. Cole

In hip-hop, what you have is you have a lot of formulaic-type bands or rappers that come up. They saw something on the radio, and they want to mimic that formula. And that's just boring. I don't wanna record something just to make money; I want to record something to enjoy it and have fun because I'm a music lover.
‐‐ Sir Mix-a-Lot

In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.
‐‐ Jane Smiley

In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.
‐‐ Nathan Deal

In his brief 21 years on this earth, Michael Smith Jr. touched countless lives.
‐‐ Mike DeWine

In his day, the audience was well aware of the music, of the classical beat.
‐‐ Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

In his enigmatic and cunning story 'The Crown of Feathers,' Isaac Bashevis Singer refuses to produce uncontradictory evidence of God's will but rather mixes all signals, jams the evidence, stalls every conclusion.
‐‐ Edmund White

In his final year in office, Clinton decided that his contribution to Middle East peace would lie not in the removal of Saddam Hussein but in a grand attempt to resolve the conflict between the Palestinians and Israel. With this, he missed his last chance to deal forcefully with the man he was publicly committed to overthrowing.
‐‐ Arthur L. Herman

In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.
‐‐ Karl Rove

In his first term, President Barack Obama played a cautious manager navigating the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and cleaning up the messes left by President George W. Bush in Iraq and Afghanistan.
‐‐ Kevin O'Leary

In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.
‐‐ Tom Vilsack

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
‐‐ Frederick Buechner

In his late quartets, Beethoven introduces an element that shouldn't be there, that should be left for meditation, though I love them. I can see that through them came Wagner and Mahler and Schoenberg and Berg. And then came Tracey Emin. And I can see it all as one downward path.
‐‐ John Tavener

In his later years, Ramakrishna took up residence at the Dakshineswar Kali Temple, from where his radiance extended far, even beyond his death in 1886.
‐‐ Justin Cartwright

In his musicals with Garland, Rooney was the sparkplug for prodigious entrepreneurship - that era's predecessor of the garage band, but with Gershwin tunes and an all-star cast.
‐‐ Richard Corliss

In his second Inaugural Address, on March 5, 1821, Monroe admitted at last to a general depression of prices, but only as a means of explaining the great decline in the federal revenue. Despite this, he asserted that the situation of America presented a 'gratifying spectacle.'
‐‐ Murray Rothbard

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
‐‐ Theodor Adorno

In his State of the Union speech in January 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt declared America's commitment to Four Freedoms in the struggle against Nazi totalitarianism. Among them was the freedom from fear.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

In his time both on the field and on the sideline, Jack Pardee will forever be a part of the Washington Redskins' legacy.
‐‐ Daniel Snyder

In his tub-thumping speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention, Romney sounded like the hedge-fund tycoon he is.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security he was very often in the minority.
‐‐ Dick Cheney

In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on the road of self-determination leading to full self-government.
‐‐ Dick Thornburgh

In historical messianism, the reign of the Messiah is brought about by a Jewish ruler powerful enough to gather the Jewish exiles back to the land of Israel, reestablish a Torah government there, and rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem.
‐‐ David Novak

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.
‐‐ Stefan Zweig

In history books, or the one about the guy who cut his hand off to get out of a canyon in Utah, you really want them to be accurate. But my stuff is such small beer by comparison.
‐‐ Geoff Dyer

In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to what we know and, where we aren't absolutely sure, what might be most likely to have happened, within the generally accepted rules of evidence and sources.
‐‐ Victor Davis Hanson

In history people dressed much better than we do today.
‐‐ Vivienne Westwood