The goodness of your true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“They throw rice at a new marriage, then give him beans in a divorcement.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
I follow an extremely strict diet counting my calorie intake, keeping in mind a very balanced ratio of proteins, carbs, and fats. — Rithvik Dhanjani Copy Share Image
If you compare TV and films, the success ratio of television is higher than films. — Vatsal Sheth Copy Share Image
Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The higher the surface area-to-volume ratio of a given amount of meat, the more efficiently it will freeze and the less damage… — J. Kenji Lopez-Alt Copy Share Image
To know whether stocks are cheap or pricey, we typically look at price-to-earnings ratio. Valuation is a tougher question than many folks… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
I couldn't tell you the ratio, but probably for every job you see me do, there would be 20 rejections. — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I play better for England, but my goals-per-game ratio is definitely better. — Danny Welbeck Copy Share Image
Nominally, there is one executive for every eight federal employees, a ratio that would bankrupt many private industries. — Martin L. Gross Copy Share Image
If you read the memoirs of slave-owning families, you'd be hard pressed to find evidence of black people in the lives of… — Edward Ball Copy Share Image
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic… — Charles Grodin Copy Share Image
In certain businesses, I would say 10 failures to one success is a perfectly acceptable ratio. Because the failures die pretty quickly,… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
“The impulse to all movement and all form is given by [the golden ratio], since it is the proportion that summarizes in… — Schwaller de Lubicz Copy Share Image
The ratio of successful shots is one in God-knows-how-many. Sometimes you'll get several in one contact sheet, and sometimes it's none for… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the novel as a medium has a very low signal-to-noise ratio. By which I mean: there are… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The ratio of celebrity divorces is probably about the same as non-celebrity divorces; it's just that the non-celebrity divorces don't get a… — Megan Mullally Copy Share Image
“Ratio became a working hypothesis, a heuristic principle, and thus led to the incomparable rise of technology. This was something fundamentally new… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I don't know what the effective ratio would be, but I've always had some sort of intuition that for every hour you… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
I liked art history. Also liked the gender ratio, especially compared to applied math and physics. — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
“The golden ratio is a reminder of the relatedness of the created world to the perfection of its source and of its… — Robert Lawlor Copy Share Image
Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The key to excellent health and longevity is to eat a high ratio of micronutrients to macronutrients. — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools… — Spencer Abraham Copy Share Image
When you are a writer, the assist-to-turnover ratio... there are a lot more turnovers than assists. — Jeff Baena Copy Share Image
I don't pick up a project based on its success ratio. If it instinctively hooks me, then it hooks me. — Shefali Shah Copy Share Image
Red velvet cake is my absolute favorite. It has to be an actual slice of cake, not a cupcake; there's more surface… — Maya Moore Copy Share Image
I'd say the best way to train someone is to remember that you have two ears and one mouth, and use them… — Brad D. Smith Copy Share Image
The American military generally counts on a kill ratio of 10 to 1 when fighting lightly armed insurgents: for every dead American,… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
At Reliance Foundation schools, we lay special emphasis on value-based education, sports, and overall development of students. That is why the teacher-students… — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
I got invited to the Playboy Mansion with the Lonely Island guys after their first season on 'SNL,' and I sat in… — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
I think any student of military strategy would tell you that in order to attack a position, you should have a ratio… — Norman Schwarzkopf Copy Share Image