High Points Quotes - Page 2

• I never look at a high point in my career. Everyone thinks about the Spinks fight, but that fight only lasted 91 seconds, so it's hard to say it defined my career.

  Mike Tyson

  Fighting, Thinking, Careers

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• In lots of books I read, the writer seems to go haywire every time he reaches a high point. He’ll start leaving out punctuation and running his words together and babble about stars flashing and sinking into a deep dreamless sea. And you can’t figure out whether the hero’s laying his girl or a cornerstone. I guess that kind of crap is supposed to be pretty deep stuff—a lot of the book reviewers eat it up, I notice. But the way I see it is, the writer is just too goddam lazy to do his job. And I’m not lazy, whatever else I am. I’ll tell you everything.

  Jim Thompson

  Girl, Running, Jobs

  Jim Thompson (1997). “Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s”

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• Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.

  James Thurber

  Humor, Sarcasm, Doe

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• Ive lived this very dramatic life, with high points and terrible low points. Nothing has been ordinary, and I want to have the experience of the last breath. I want a little drama to it.

  Dominick Dunne

  Drama, Ordinary, Want

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• When I was a kid, the high point of the day was to go to the mailbox and see if any mail came for me, and I'm still stuck in that mode.

  Jim Beaver

  Kids, Mail, Stuck

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• One of the high points in my career came from a time I had with Tim Conway on a film when I had him fall down with laughter. I had this scene with him where I was this mechanic down fixing his car. I can't remember what my line was as written, but they were okay with me doing a made-up line. So Tim asks me what's wrong with his car, and I look up and say, "Well, looks like you got a squirrel caught up in there."

  John Ratzenberger

  Laughter, Fall, Squirrels

  Source: www.starwars.com

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• One of the high points of my life was when I suddenly realized that this dream I had in my late adolescence of combining pure mathematics, very pure mathematics with very hard things which had been long a nuisance to scientists and to engineers, that this combination was possible and I put together this new geometry of nature, the fractal geometry of nature.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Dream, Long, Together

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Your high points and your low points. High points don't last that long, it's a high and it happens. It's great at the moment but you really can't live on it.

  Ric Ocasek

  Long, Live In The Moment, Lasts

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• The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.

  Gail Collins

  Crazy, Nice, Writing

  "Interview With Gail Collins: How Texas Hijacked the American Agenda". Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.

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• When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathe News. I was in it too with the chicken. I was just there to assist the chicken but it was the high point in my life. Everything since has been anticlimax.

  Flannery O'Connor

  News, Six, Chickens

  Flannery O'Connor, Rosemary M. Magee (1987). “Conversations with Flannery O'Connor”, p.38, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• My first Indy 500 was one of my high points. I ended up qualifying fourth and I finished fourth. I had a win in Japan a few years later, and then qualifying for Daytona was great as well.

  Danica Patrick

  Winning, Japan, Years

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• The high point of the act is when he (Uri Durov) puts his head inside the bear's huge jaws. I wouldn't even try that with my agent.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Trying, Agents

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• North Carolina is a fascinating state, because you've got these urban areas. You've got the Piedmont Triangle - Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point.

  Julianne Malveaux

  North Carolina, Triangles, Urban

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• I think that there's room for everyone. I don't think that if one person succeeds then another must fail. That's lunacy. I'm not sure what the reasons are for my philosophy, maybe it's the fact that if there are ten people doing the same job, we all know how we feel and what our high points and low points are.

  Judd Nelson

  Jobs, Philosophy, Thinking

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

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• I sang "O Holy Night" in a school choir. My mother came and listened to me and complimented me. So that was the high point. I cannot sing a note.

  Toni Morrison

  Mother, School, Night

  "'I Regret Everything': Toni Morrison Looks Back On Her Personal Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 20, 2015.

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• Rebounding helps a lot with your ball skills, because you're able to go get the ball at a high point, which is what they want you to do in football.

  Calvin Pryor

  Football, Skills, Balls

  Source: www.nfl.com

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• You've got to remember that 25 is a great time because, you know, you're passed that 21 thing and it's a high point, a high peak, in life where you're old enough to say what you have discovered, but you're still open to discovering more.

  Stevie Wonder

  Remember, Enough, Discovering

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In a way, J.F.K. was the high point of the American dream. In order to go to the moon and back, all we did was say we could - and we did.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Dream, Moon, Order

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• Even a brief interaction can change the way people think about themselves, their leaders, and the future. Each of those many connections you make has the potential to become a high point or a low point in someone's day.

  Douglas Conant

  Thinking, People, Leader

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• The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.

  Stanley Crouch

  Hate, War, Civilization

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• When you meditate, you take charge of your life. You bring your conscious awareness to a new high point, where the vista is beyond any horizon.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Horizon

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• Another cultural thing that's really creepy. It's not like in the '60s, where there were definitely great high points of creativity where people were trying to outdo each other to be noticed even.

  J. Robbins

  Creativity, People, Creepy

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• The moving toward one's inner self is a long pilgrimage for a painter. It offers many temporary successes and high points, but impels him on toward the more adequate image.

  Ben Shahn

  Moving, Journey, Self

  Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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• As a preacher, I'm working with the crowd, watching the crowd, trying to bring them to that high point at a certain time in the evening. I let everything build up to that moment when they're all in ecstasy. The crowd builds up and you have to watch it that you don't stop it. You start off saying you've heard that tonight's going to be a great night; then you begin the whole pitch and keep it rolling.

  Marjoe Gortner

  Night, Atheism, Trying

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• He is already past the high point in his life and coming down on the other side. By next week he'll be nostalgia. He's 12 years old, and it's over for him.

  Tony Kornheiser

  Past, Next Week, Years

  "Jeff Maier is back in baseball's limelight / Fan who aided Yankees in '96 sets record as college hitter" by Stan Grossfeld, www.sfgate.com. April 23, 2006.

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