Getting High Quotes - Page 4

• The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we were all getting high a lot. My parents were relieved when I got off the Eagles treadmill.

  Glenn Frey

  Drinking, Eagles, Years

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• If you look at a record under a microscope, the high frequencies are short jagged edges... and the low frequencies are long swinging ones are deep bass sounds. When it cut it at half speed, you're getting more of those on the record.

  Herb Alpert

  Cutting, Long, Sound

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• Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

  Dan Gable

  School, Wrestling, People

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• That's the same in college. It's the same in high school. Kids are getting bigger, stronger, faster, more into the weightlifting, more into nutrition, more into size.

  Steve Mariucci

  Kids, School, College

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• I've always wanted to do a movie that takes place in the 70's and was about rock and roll and getting high, like Dazed and Confused or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

  Edward Furlong

  Confused, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side.

  Piper Perabo

  School, Sides, Dorky

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• Diving has been in the game for years. Probably the coverage the game gets now, with all the cameras around, it gets highlighted a bit more. But it hasn't got any worse.

  Wayne Rooney

  Inspirational, Years, Games

  "Wayne Rooney: I am not a diver". www.mirror.co.uk. September 3, 2009.

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• Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Getting Older, Age, Fascination

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• I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.

  Bjork

  Hunting, Hands, Honest

  "I didn't like being a celebrity. It's a service job. Like washing toilets" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2007.

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• And money, if the pile gets high enough, is something like a big political party: it does as much harm as it does good, it puts too much power in too few hands, and the closer you come to it the dirtier you get.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Party, Hands, Political

  Gregory David Roberts (2012). “Shantaram”, p.523, Hachette UK

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• The school system is constructed to praise you if you get high grades. And if you get straight A's, you're the one that everyone puts forward, and they prognosticate that the straight-A person is the one most likely to succeed, because that's the way the school system is constructed and conceived.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  School, Way, Succeed

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Cosmos Shouldn't Make You Feel Small". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 27, 2014.

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• I like doing other things. I like getting high, hanging out with my kids. I like drinking. I have so many demons.

  Mike Tyson

  Drinking, Kids, Demon

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• Our external environment no longer seems to have any firm boundaries, any limits, or any positive cues about when to stop consuming anything. I mean, there is a reason that people get fat - it's easy and cheap to get high-calorie, tasty food.

  Bob Harper

  Mean, People, Limits

  Bob Harper, Greg Critser (2012). “The Skinny Rules: The Simple, Nonnegotiable Principles for Getting to Thin”, p.13, Ballantine Books

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• And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain.

  Van Morrison

  Rain, Ocean, Garden

  Song: Sweet Thing, Album: Astral Weeks

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• Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

  Bill Cosby

  Birthday, Funny Life, Mistake

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

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• The scale of light can be described by numbers called the frequency and as the numbers get higher, the light goes from red to blue to ultraviolet. We can't see ultraviolet light, but it can affect photographic plates. It's still light only the number is different.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Light, Blue, Numbers

  Richard P. Feynman (2014). “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”, p.13, Princeton University Press

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• This is why it is good to remember: if you want to get high, don’t drink whiskey; read Shakespeare, Tennyson, Keats, Neruda, Hopkins, Millay, Whitman, aloud and let your body sing.

  Natalie

  Body, Want, Whiskey

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• And anyway, considering that her mother dies and her boyfriend's spending a small fortune to get high off someone else's bad breath, I'd say Sophie's next in line for therapy.

  Rachel Vincent

  Mother, Sophie, Lines

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• Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

  J. Paul Getty

  Work, Sitting Still, Hours

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• So when he asked about getting high, I didn't think, I agreed. We smoked some good California green. Took three tries to put me in the place he said I should be.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Marijuana, Thinking, California

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• There was a band playing in my head, And I felt like getting high

  Neil Young

  Hippie, Band, Drugs And Alcohol

  Song: After The Gold Rush, 1970

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• In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

  Rowan Williams

  Simple, Ideas, Anxiety

  Rowan Williams (2012). “Faith in the Public Square”, p.244, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.

  Earl Wilson

  Climbing, Blood, Hiking

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• Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.

  Iggy Pop

  Getting Older, Stage, Higher

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• There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Courage, Men, Becoming

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