Quotes About Standards

Same rules apply.

The train was nearly twenty minutes late, an excellent performance by British Rail standards.

She accused him of having grandiose ideas and sloppy habits, a fatal combination for a writer.

En gran parte del mundo vivimos en una cultura enfocada hacia la juventud, la belleza y el éxito. Para cualquier mujer resulta muy difícil navegar en esas aguas; para la mayoría es un naufragio seguro.

Sus modales eran impecables, requisito esencial en la clase alta, dónde el uso debido del tenedor era más importante que las condiciones morales de un sujeto.

Indian women have always been full-bodied and men like voluptuous women. Size zero is a concept of the West and it is only meant for the runway models, not for us.

It's impossible to have zero defects.

Some models are naturally very thin, but if they aren't naturally like that, then what these girls do to their health to fit in... To be a size zero or a two when you're tall is incredible to me.

In my day, you could get a faculty job with zero post-doc papers, as in the case of yours truly; but now, the CV of a successful applicant looks like that of a newly minted full professor from olden times.

By Hollywood standards I'm still fat: until you are zero, you are big. I do get cold a lot now. I used to have a lot of layers - now I got to get a fur coat.

As it is, 'Size Zero' is not for me. I feel a woman should have a feminine figure.

I really don't think size zero will ever catch on in Bengali cinema nor will a 22-inch waist.

I don't believe in being a size zero, nor do I prescribe it.

WTO is not the forum for labour standards. Next, the U.S. will argue the time zone difference is an unfair competitive advantage enjoyed by India that enables our software engineers to work while the Americans sleep.

The best is the enemy of the good.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

"Good enough never is" has become the motto of this company.

If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half-century would have been impossible without that spreading of the knowledge of higher standards by means of advertising.

Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery-courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards.

The English woman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.

Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.

Men of genius are the worst possible models for men of talent.