Quality Quotes · Page 61

Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.

— Christopher Isherwood

Honer and self sacrifice. Death does not diminish these qualities in a soldier. We shall remember.

— Anonymous

We all, at some point, grow old and acquire other qualities, and these can always be turned to good advantage.

— Paulo Coelho

We do not want to be giving quality sides such as Southampton, Palace, Norwich and the rest eight or nine points start…

— Paul Ince

Just as a seed grows with the warmth of the sun, so our positive qualities grow when we put our attention on…

— Arielle Ford

One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the…

— Doris Lessing

It's about the quality of the worry," I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to.

— David Gilmour

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

— Herodotus

“Grace is what matters, in anything... That's a quality I admire quite greatly. It keeps you from reaching for the gun too…

— Jeff Buckley

The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we inhabit are not only critical elements in the quality of…

— Rick Perry

I always saw Michael Gambon wearing madly psychedelic socks, and I always thought that's it is one of the few areas where…

— Daniel Radcliffe

There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such…

— Roger Ebert

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the…

— Edith Hamilton

On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from…

— John Fowles

Its, the gum tree, main appeal to me has been its combination of mightiness and delicacy - mighty in its strength of…

— Hans Heysen

If human beings are losing every time, it doesn't matter whether they're losing to a conscious machine or an completely non conscious…

— Stuart J. Russell

Nebraskans are known for giving of themselves and that quality is part of what makes our state such a wonderful place to…

— Dave Heineman

In the '70s and '80s, the mentality of America was that everything was disposable. The notion of quality wasn't important.

— Les Wexner

“My passion is to keep my clients permanently satisfied with the quality of my work”

— Benjamin Kofi Quansah

I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the…

— Garry Shandling

I never say never, but I haven't been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television.

— Nicolas Cage

Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing…

— Grenville Kleiser

I'm very old fashioned. I still believe in the image and the pictorial quality of the image. It seems that I'm still…

— Thomas Ruff

She never inquired, but she never recoiled, either. This is a quality that I look for in a person, not recoiling.

— Miranda July

Water is the foundation for our economies, communities, ecosystems, and quality of life.

— Kate Brown

Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it-the quality of temptation.

— Anonymous

Truth telling is the first building block of character -- a quality that seems to be getting rarer and rarer in all-forgiving…

— Mona Charen

Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.

— Michael Chabon

The quality of life, which in the ardour of spring was personal and sexual, becomes social in midsummer.

— Henry Beston

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

— Anonymous

Quality is the one absolutely necessary ingredient of all the most successful companies in the world.

— Frank Perdue

Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.

— Steve Jobs

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

— Barry Commoner

I mean there's a hell of a difference between the Big Ten and the ACC when it comes to quality football.

— Lee Corso

True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth.

— Christopher Pike

I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure.

— Edward Weston

For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken.

— Sloane Crosley

Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess.

— Haruki Murakami

If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the…

— Jack Kornfield