Rate Quotes · Page 89

This is the essential distinction--even opposition--between the painting and the film: the painting is composed subjectively, thefilm objectively. However highly we rate…

— Herbert Read

Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher than nearly any other…

— Seth Berkley

Mayor [Rudy] Giuliani is here, worked very well in New York. It brought the crime rate way down. But you take the…

— Donald Trump

Clean water is a necessity that we can no longer take for granted. Each year more people die of water related diseases…

— Jewel

When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the…

— William Shakespeare

A harmonious person is never vibrating at the same rate as a germ.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

Joe Louis is the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. Rocky Marciano is second only to Louis. Where do I rate Ali?…

— Joe Frazier

In Germany there is ranking for contribution rate, so the cheaper sickness funds with good quality can both advertise their better quality…

— Karl Lauterbach

The world would be a pretty dull place if it were made up only of the first-rate, right?

— Haruki Murakami

I am fully intelligent only when I write. I have a certain amount of small-change intelligence, which I carry round with me…

— Elizabeth Bowen

If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the…

— Chaim Potok

The insanity rate per capita in South Africa is appalling. ...it is easily seen that a primary requisite in any programme of…

— L. Ron Hubbard

It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.

— Ernst Mayr

Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a…

— William Irwin Thompson

I am assured at any rate Man's practically inexterminate. Someday I must go into that. There's always been an Ararat Where someone…

— Robert Frost

We owe to every businessperson and worker in America the best environment in the world to create a job. We owe that…

— Lindsey Graham

Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

— Horace

I was pretty shocked to learn that as many as 30,000 elephants are being killed every year to fuel the ivory trade,…

— Ian Somerhalder

There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.

— Gerald Finzi

But with a rate of return of 1.6 percent or less, or a negative rate of return, our children and our grandchildren,…

— John Shadegg

The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.

— Ezra Pound

Believe it or not, I have about the same success rate as anyone else. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss.

— Seth MacFarlane

We're going through a mass rate of death in the United States, as it's going on in Europe, also, similarly. But the…

— Lyndon LaRouche

The rates of taxation climb and the levels of capital decline, until the only remaining wealth beyond the reach of the regime…

— George Gilder

Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in…

— John Cheever