Quotes About Standards

I've always hated modeling. It's superficial and fake, and I hate to have to care about what I look like. I get a pimple and freak. The whole business is all about selling beautiful girls' faces and bodies, so how can there be anything intelligent or nice about that except for the girl who makes money?

People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all he has written.

The game is played not to protect the rules; rather, the rules are made to protect the game. That

Nobody, nobody is good enough

For, in movie logic, aesthetics has the authority of ethics: to be less than beautiful is sad, but to be willfully less than beautiful is immoral.

The standards for horror fiction should be no less than those for 'serious literary' fiction in which originality of concept, depth of characters, and attentiveness to language are vitally important.

Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but it's the little foxes that spoil the vine.

Please remember that you don't have to be like someone else to be acceptable. The world's standards are not God's. The world may say you need to be like this person or that person, but God's will is that you be yourself. I

Prime?ti ceea ce tolerezi.

women were brought up to have only one set of manners. A woman was either a lady or she wasn't, and we all know what the latter meant. Not even momentary lapses were allowed; there is no female equivalent of the boys-will-be-boys concept.

If being ugly was a crime, they'd be hunting that woman down with helicopters and bloodhounds.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards -- the things we live by and teach our children -- are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

You can know that you are judging illegitimately when your standard rests outside of Scripture, such as judging motives. Clearly, judging the motives of another places you outside the parameters of legitimate judging.

I know well that only the rarest kind of best can be good enough for the young.

My advice for aspiring writers is go to New York. And if you can't go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests. Writing books begins in talking about it, like most human projects, and in being close to those who have already done what you propose to do.

It's easy to hate women and hate women's bodies when we don't do very much to fight back. We have to step into the skin we're in. Your body isn't perfect? Well, neither is mine. Neither is anyone's. It's time to redefine "perfect" or drop the expectation. It's time to feed ourselves with compassion instead of grief. Compassion instead of starvation. Compassion instead of food.

Modern man is obsessed with beauty.

Like many parents, they equated normality with being happy and productive.

but a perfect home was as clear a sign of dysfunction as a slovenly one.

There us no point for me … to work every day for the purpose of offering guests an average experience.

There us no point for me … to work hard every day for the purpose of offering guests an average experience. 90

Seríamos capaces de abuchear a Luciano Pavarotti si desafinara en su ópera prima, pero aplaudimos al líder de alabanza que «desafina para la gloria de Dios». Pedir