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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Quote by Jane Austen about mistake, respect, old, olderness, contentment

Not only do we sing too high but, even more, if you want to respect the spirit of the technique that the composers had at their command in the 19th century, you would have to use the head voice.

Quote by Placido Domingo about voice, heads, use, respect, spirit, contentment

The high note is not the only thing.

Quote by Placido Domingo about things

The lied does not ask for an especially high tessitura, but only for a normal one.

Quote by Placido Domingo

But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about school

I don't know, you know all through high school I just knew I wanted to do it.

Quote by Josh Duhamel about school, contentment

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.

Quote by Richard Ernst about artists, faith, time

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

Quote by Richard Ernst about teaching, city, school

Playing the violoncello brought me into numerous chamber and church music ensembles, and stimulated my interest in musical composition that I tried extensively while in high school.

Quote by Richard Ernst about interest, school, music

The morning air, on the contrary, so celebrated both by poets and philosophers for its benign and cheering effects upon the mind and body, is enjoyed in high perfection by persons of this way of life; and the advantages they derive from thence in...

Quote by William Falconer about poets, people, perfection, air, body, mind, life

Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about magic, sex, children

It's every kid's dream to play. For me to still be able to do it at a high level in this position, it's just unbelievable.

Quote by Brett Favre about dream

Of course, everything is not perfect. We see high unemployment and low productivity growth, but these are (as previous speakers have emphasized) the result of poor structural policies rather than inappropriate monetary policy.

Quote by Martin Feldstein about perfection

Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today.

Quote by Martin Feldstein

I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations.

Quote by Ralph Fiennes

This thing called revolutionary propaganda and activity is something of an art in itself. It has been developed to a high degree in Europe where revolutionary groups have been active for half a century and where Communist revolutionary groups have...

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about activity, past, success, art, magic, things

Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.

Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev about nation, earth, wisdom, god

There's a high threshold of rejection.

Quote by Peter Fonda

Nabokov is required reading in high school and college. It's unbelievable that there would be such a backlash against this movie.

Quote by Melanie Griffith about school

Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.

Quote by Alex Van Halen