#higher

- I won't be able to think. I won't be able to work. - Nothing will interfere with your work like suicide. (Silence) - I dreamt that I went to the doctor's and she gave me eight minutes to live. I'd been sitting in the fucking waiting room for half an hour. (A long silence) - Okay, let's do it, let's do the drugs, let's do the chemical lobotomy, let's shut down the higher functions of my brain and perhaps I'll be a bit more fucking capable of living. Let's do it. ↗

— Sarah Kane

#higher-living

I believe we can and should have it all. Lower deficits but higher spending. More peace with a bigger military that goes off and kills terrorists and whatnot. A cleaner environment without forcing SUVs off the road. ↗

— Craig Armstrong

#bigger #cleaner #deficits #environment #forcing

There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#prevention #priority #terrorism #than

I am being taken care of by a higher being than myself or my coaches or my training staff. ↗

— Rebecca Lobo

#being #care #coaches #higher #i

After a while, you can't get any higher. It's like your head is in a wind tunnel - everything is vibrating. ↗

— Method Man

#any #everything #get #head #higher

You know, a left-winger, the barrier to success if you're on the left in commercial radio is a mile and a half higher than it is if you're on the right. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#commercial #half #higher #know #left

Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#becomes #difficult #exceed #expectations #fine

The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#degree #dial #does #everybody #find

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him. ↗

— John Ruskin

#higher #him #man #more #stands

I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity. ↗

— Shawn Ryan

#authenticity #bar #days #expectations #higher