Index Quotes

120 Index quotes by 107 unique authors

There's this index that tallies up how much your movies have made, and if they haven't grossed a certain amount, then you're not bankable. I… — Chloe Sevigny
We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points… — Charles M. Vest
A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who acquires superficial knowledge… — Tobias Smollett
A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his… — John Steinbeck
Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned… — Kate Millett
...May its index point to joy, And moments wing'd with new delights. Sweet may resound each silver bell, And never quick returning chime, Seem in… — Charlotte Turner Smith
I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Speech is the index of the mind. — Seneca the Younger
Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship. — Nadine Gordimer
If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for… — Sydney J. Harris
Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply as they have… — Edward Weston
The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity. — Emile M. Cioran
The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke
Never index your own book. — Kurt Vonnegut
A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and… — Bill Vaughan
One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is… — Oliver Goldsmith
There is no index of character so sure as the voice. — Benjamin Disraeli
The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work. — Brian Eno
That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness. — Lupe Fiasco
Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take… — Mitt Romney
If you look at the average age of a company on the Dow Jones index, it's something like 35 years or younger. In other words...… — Simon Sinek
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine. — Tertullian
The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology… — Philip Zimbardo
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't… — Abigail Van Buren
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person,… — Margaret Atwood

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