Top 1200 Standard English Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

I still do the standard editorial cartoon: that is my bread and butter. I absolutely love doing that.

When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus.

Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.

Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.

English was my fourth language. I arrived, I enrolled in public school, as a child, I believe I was about six years old when we finally landed in Michigan. And I was initially put in special education because I couldn't quite wrap my mind around the English language because I was listening to Hungarian and Albanian and German. My mind broke down like I couldn't quite wrap my mind around the fourth language.

With my grey hair and workaholic attitude, I can't imagine being hot by any standard.

The fault of bad taste is usually in over-dressing. Quality not effect, is the standard to seek for.

We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others.

Let us set up a standard around which the brave and the loyal can rally.

Hopefully with a woman President the double standard will slowly begin to wane.

The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low.

For the Olympics, I'm mostly training in the gym, so I'm running laps on the standard speed wall.

If one avoids haughtiness to the utmost extent and is exceedingly humble, he is termed a saint, and this is the standard of saintliness.

Black eyeliner. It’s standard. It’s all you need. It just makes the world a better place.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

Jesus raised the standard high so we would realize we couldn’t possibly do it without a savior.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

I've learned to judge of men by their own deeds; I do not make the accident of birth The standard of their merit.

I have to try and uplift the standard of living for the people in Zambia. If I cannot do that, I will have failed.

I hate the standard of stupid and selfish driving we have in this country. We are the worst I've come across.

The Spanish and German leagues are of a very high standard. Along with the Premier League, they are probably the best.

I feel like I've helped create a new standard of hustle for defensive linemen.

Celebrity-spotting is pretty standard at Davos. It's one of the things that makes it easy to criticise.

You need to perform consistently, and if you're raising the standard, you have to stand by it. You have to keep on doing well.

We were doing the same thing. We will never have "a" Chicano English or Spanish because of regional differences. But I think that because of our bilingual history, we'll always be speaking a special kind of English and Spanish. What we do have to do is fight for the right to use those two languages in the way that it serves us. Nuevo-mexicanos have done it very well for hundreds of years, inventing words where they don't have them. I think the future of our language is where we claim our bilingualism for its utility.

The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.

There is a standard joke in the family. Probably we should go into selling second-hand shoes.

People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country.

The standard publishing contract is replete with clauses that strip authors of control over their books.

So often, we're expected to maintain some sort of standard - that won't get you where you need to go.

There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.

We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.

I've just always been around great songwriters. To me, they were the standard.

We say, that the Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God.

Whatever others think or do, lower not your standard of purity, morality and love of God.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day

[from The One and Only Official Mr. Gum Official Glossary That Tells You What Words Mean by Explaining Them Using Other Words] : Cups of tea: People in England are always drinking cups of tea. "Oh let's have a cup of tea " they say. "That will prove we are English and not American." Sometimes American people try to have cups of tea to pretend they are English but forget it We can always tell you are faking it

Education is popular but very low standard. No wonder the Philippine economy is bankrupt.

I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.

We cannot use our thoughts and feelings as a standard: only God’s Word is the test.

I'm on the MIT board, and a lot of our buildings now have daycare centers; it's becoming a standard.

The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman wears a brown suit in the city. Colleges may be to blame. English majors are encouraged, I know, to hate chemistry and physics, and to be proud because they are not dull and creepy and humorless and war-oriented like the engineers across the quad. And our most impressive critics have commonly been such English majors, and they are squeamish about technology to this very day. So it is natural for them to despise science fiction.

Our veterans only deserve the highest standard of health care quality.

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.

That's a big thing for me, being a guy that upholds himself to a high standard.

Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.

Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts: then the coalition of Pilnitz, outlawing our commerce with France, and the British enforcement of the outlawry. In your day French depredations; in mine English, and the Berlin and Milan decrees: now the English orders of council, and the piracies they authorize. When these shall be over, it will the impressment of our seamen, or something else; and so we have gone on, and so we shall go on, puzzled and prospering beyond example in the history of man.

The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.

...despite all this, it is still hard to admit that there is no one more English than the Indian, no one more Indian than the English. There are still young white men who are angry about that; who will roll out at closing time into the poorly lit streets with a kitchen knife wrapped in a tight fist. But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears - dissolution, disappearance.

Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.

By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others.

The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.

There are certain concepts, which exist in English, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa. Hebrew has a system of tenses, which is, in a big way, different from the English system of tenses, probably different than any European system of tenses, which means a different sense of reality, which means a different concept of time. So, things can be translated, but they become different.

I could wish there were a treaty made between the French and the English theatres, in which both parties should make considerableconcessions. The English ought to give up their notorious violations of the unities, and all their massacres, racks, dead bodies, and mangled carcasses, which they so frequently exhibit upon their stage. The French should engage to have more action, and less declamation, and not to cram and to crowd things together to almost a degree of impossibility from a too scrupulous adherence to the unities.

Men's cricket sets the bar. We are always trying to reach where they set the standard.

I think of myself primarily as a reader, then also a writer, but that's more or less irrelevant. I think I'm a good reader, I'm a good reader in many languages, especially in English, since poetry came to me through the English language, initially through my father's love of Swinburn, of Tennyson, and also of Keats, Shelley and so on - not through my native tongue, not through Spanish. It came to me as a kind of spell. I didn't understand it, but I felt it.

Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

Without wishing to sound pretentious, my basic standard of happiness is to do with being who I am.