Highstool Quotes & Sayings

Ear is the energy to do your best in a new situation. The feeling of fear (anxiety, nervousness, shyness, or any of its other aliases) is really "preparation energy". It's getting you ready to excel, to succeed, to do your best and to learn the most. — Peter McWilliams

The feelings of politicians are rarely transparent. — John Ferling

All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me. — Wilfred Owen

I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times. — Jaclyn Smith

I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe. — Hampton Sides

She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or an operation, during which he must not be hurried or interfered with. When the man had finished she would be waiting, without fret or impatience, somewhere on a highstool, turning the pages of a newspaper. — F Scott Fitzgerald

You look at Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Petit at Arsenal or Roy Keane at Man United, and they are players that can do everything. — Jamie Redknapp

And rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known. — Irving Stone

The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution. — Sun Tzu

For, obviously, things were not as simple as the framers of laws had imagined them to be, and if it was of small legal relevance, it was of great political interest to know how long it takes an average person to overcome his innate repugnance toward crime, and what exactly happens to him once he had reached that point. To this question, the case of Adolf Eichmann supplied an answer that could not have been clearer and more precise. — Hannah Arendt