High Strung

I was 6 years old, innately high-strung, and totally caught off guard by the gloominess and seriousness of the ceremony. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So, from the day Lily was born, she was the angelic foil to her high-strung sister. ❋ Susan Engel (2011)

For horses, who are high-strung and nervous to begin with, the stress of "killer" auctions and the journey to slaughter is a nightmare. ❋ Ingrid Newkirk (2011)

Lola's the prototypical tiny dog: high-strung, mean-spirited, perpetually unsatisfied -- in short, the embodiment of the way my wife and I saw each other. ❋ Larry Carlat (2011)

TV Guide Magazine: Have you ever been in a "Graysonship" like Jules and Grayson's high-strung - meets-grumpy hookup? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Gilchrist has an appealing diffidence as the high-strung kid, and Roberts is also good as a tough, vulnerable young woman. ❋ Marshall Fine (2010)

She's a totally annoying, high-strung Green Bay Packers fan. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Do you find it challenging or liberating (or both) to create such high-strung suspense in your storytelling? ❋ Unknown (2010)

One little girl I knew was high-strung from the moment she was born. ❋ Susan Engel (2011)

If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung -- and everybody hates me. ❋ Katy Hall (2010)

Two fine actors, Peter Mullan and Emily Watson, are marooned in this opening section: they are the Narracotts, honest farming folk cruelly tormented for their rent money by their landlord Lyons (David Thewlis), and whose callow son Albert (Jeremy Irvine) established a brotherly bond with a frisky thoroughbred which, despite its high-strung ways, pitches in and accepts a plough-harness to save the Narracotts from eviction. ❋ Unknown (2011)

(I am not, perhaps, the least high-strung person of your acquaintance.) ❋ Markgritter (2009)

When Russell, a young, high-strung boy from a wilderness troop, stows away on the airborne house, the adventure just begins as the two of them (and a talking dog named Dug) find themselves in a race to save a rare and magnificent bird from a twisted explorer. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She motored through the door five minutes late and appeared a bit high-strung, which subsided as she gulped down a liter of medium-roasted coffee with 10 splenda and a splash of cream. ❋ Candid Engineer (2009)

Mr. Bertucelli said Mr. Laffer was "high-strung" during games, "very competitive and very focused." ❋ Sean Gardiner (2011)

"If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung -- and everybody hates me." ❋ Katy Hall (2010)

The sporty Si models move from a high-strung 2.0-liter engine to a 2.4-liter four-cylinder. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Tony: Damn, my Mom is [freakin] high strung as hell! She called me the [anti-christ]. Matt: She needs to [take a chill pill]. ❋ Def (2005)

The high [strung] [mall security] guard told [me he'd] kick my ass if I tried to skateboard again. ❋ Mike D (2005)

[High Strung] quotes: [Thane] Furrows: I'd rather... be... DEAD! Thane Furrows: Relationships? They shouldn't even call them relationships. They should have a more descriptive name: Painland. Thane Furrows: Smokers. There's no excuse for smoking. Smoking is the equivalent to carrying around a [salt lick], laced with a little bit of cyanide. ❋ Gancheff (2007)