Rating Quotes · Page 6

Campo, as everyone in chess recognized, had a 2600 rating as a politician.

— Raymond Keene

Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; and shame is fear of humiliation at…

— Laozi

It's all Trump all day long [on CNN]. That's why their ratings are through the roof.

— Donald Trump

I have an F rating from the N.R.A.

— Tom Suozzi

Are you attracted by his new ideas or his new poll ratings?

— Pat Buchanan

In a landscape where a 2.8 [demo rating] keeps you on the air, you can maintain that just by treating your fans…

— Billy Lawrence

Ratings to me are a little like the Chinese Government. I don't fully understand what makes a rating go. I don't know…

— Tom Brokaw

This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings

— Paddy Chayefsky

The ratings system is so bogus and people know it. Fewer and fewer people care. The ratings board has sort of exposed…

— William H. Macy

Five," she said. Her lips and cheeks were flushed, but her gaze was steady. "Five?" Gabriel echoed blankly. "My rating," she said,…

— Cassandra Clare

I bet Richard Fuld doesn't have an ounce of contrition. It's just megalomania. When it's like that, you need rules to prevent…

— Charlie Munger

A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this…

— Mike Lofgren

The visits Prime Minister Koizumi made to the Yasukuni Shrine, I believe, had nothing to do with approval ratings. He paid respects…

— Shinzo Abe

For example, some stars put out large amounts of energy in the infrared part of the spectrum, so that this can produce…

— Charles Francis Richter

We have got this Damocles' sword of Standard and Poor's hanging over us, with the commitment they have made to review Britain's…

— Philip Hammond

I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a…

— P. Chidambaram

I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them,…

— Oren Peli

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

— Jonathan Swift

There's no way to tweak your content in order to goose ratings. You do what you're good at and let people follow…

— Rachel Maddow

I never personally name anyone. I am not comfortable rating other drivers.

— Mario Andretti

Ratings for the XFL are so low that pretty soon they'll be able to address the viewers by name.

— Jay Leno

A big win for [Hillary] Clinton would allow her to claim that the country rejected Trumpism, while a narrow win leaves her…

— Mara Liasson

["Aquarius"] it had a bit of a rocky arrival in cinemas because we were given the 18+ rating, which did not make…

— Sonia Braga

We give the podium to a lot of people who shouldn't have the podium. The message that's delivered the loudest and in…

— Dave Matthews

The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.

— Mohamed El-Erian