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  • The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float....are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness.

    New York   Food   Beer  
  • One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.'

  • 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.

  • Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.

  • 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.

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

    Source: www.democracynow.org
  • The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.

    Past   Men   Knowing  
  • All the things and events we usually consider as irreconcilable, such as cause and effect, past and future, subject and object, are actually just like the crest and trough of a single wave, a single vibration. For a wave, although itself a single event, only expresses itself through the opposites of crest and trough, high point and low point. For that very reason, the reality is not found in the crest nor the trough alone, but in their unity.

    Ken Wilber (2001). “No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth”, p.23, Shambhala Publications
  • Everyone is in a hurry. The persons whom I lead in worship, among whom I counsel, visit, pray, preach, and teach, want shortcuts. They want me to help them fill in the form that will get them instant credit (in eternity). They are impatient for results. They have adopted the lifestyle of a tourist and only want the high points. . . . The Christian life cannot mature under such conditions and in such ways.

    Christian   Want   Way  
    Albert Mohler (2012). “The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters”, p.140, Baker Books
  • The more there is scandal and corruption in Washington, the better it is for McCain, so he`s at a high point right now.

  • 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.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, its their only elective, so this is their one shot. Theyll take the Russian Novel or American Poetry, so I want to give them the high points, the inescapable poets.

    Giving   Want   Lectures  
  • 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.

    Hate   War   Civilization  
  • People say to us, look, it may well be the case that there are fewer wars and fewer genocides, but surely more people are being killed. But when we look at this, the number of people killed in wars involving a state every year, all the wars, and you can see there's a high point, that's the Korean war, and it keeps on going down and down and down. If you look at the average number of people killed per conflict per year, it goes from 37-thousand in 1950 to just 600 in 2002.

    War   Average   Years  
  • 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.

    Funny   Trying   Agents  
  • Everything we do, our every objective, must be undertaken for the sake of... purity of heart... we must practice the reading of the Scripture, together with all the other virtuous activities... to hold our hearts free of the harm of every dangerous passion and in order to rise step by step to the high point of love.

  • Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery.

  • Our own lives feel so disordered and confusing, so it's amazing to me that the filmmakers caught the personal, emotional high points and low points of my life and not just the public aspects.

    Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.
  • 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.

  • A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity -- culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth.

    Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.105, Penguin
  • 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.

    "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.
  • When lifting weights, nothing feels better than achieving a high point on the bench press with no help from your spotter.

  • Many are the stories I have heard about myself. I have mistresses I have never met. When I hear that I am a sodomist and a zoophalist then I shall know that I have reached the high point of fame, but I suppose I can hardly expect such exaltation for many years.

  • I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page

    Wedding   Careers   Depth  
  • 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.

    Drama   Ordinary   Want  
  • With your spirit open and unconstricted, look at things from a high point of view.

    Views   Looks   Spirit  
    Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi”, p.34, Lulu Press, Inc
  • Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.

    "The Eyre Affair". Book by Jasper Fforde, July 19, 2001.
  • You know, you can't see or touch and isn't embodied. But they were all fallible, the Gods. And they would kind of rise and fall. You know, they all, like Achilles, Icarus, you know, they all had their high points and their low points.

    Fall   Kind   Achilles  
    Source: collider.com
  • 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.

    Football   Skills   Balls  
    Source: www.nfl.com
  • 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.

    Night   Atheism   Trying  
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