Quotes About Standards

American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.

She had long ago concluded that it was impossible to find guys who were considerate and sensitive as well as hot. Well, impossible to find some that didn't already have boyfriends of their own anyway.

You are at this academy to become better girls—the best girls. That means you are"—he counts on his fingers—"beautiful, quiet, and pure. Take the last part away and you're not special. You're a common whore." Several girls flinch at the statement.

I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards.

I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.

Hollywood is something else. It's such an exaggerated idea. The concept of what 'beautiful' really is is ludicrous.

If doing something with second-rate effort satisfies you, find something else to do - where only your best effort will satisfy you personally.

I don't think Flo Rida gets on just any song. If you look at the songs he has done - even The Saturdays one - was a hit. If it's not good enough, then he won't do it.

If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer.

I'm sorry to say, but 85% of so-called 'green' firms make some of the ugliest buildings that were ever made. So for God's sake, I don't want to be categorized with them.

When it comes to black female comedians, it's like, if you're not overweight, are you funny? There's rules, like, you can't be skinny and pretty and funny. I'm all three, sorry to break it to you.

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

We'd never do 'The Sound of Music' because the movie was perfect.

Film stars and players can be sources of entertainment but never ideals.

I think all of us as NBA players have expectations of ourselves that are different from expectations from external forces and sources.

If you're doing an animated comedy on the same channel as 'South Park,' no one can really tell you anything. The bar has been set so high.

Southern women, especially upper-middle-class women, care deeply about appearances and what other people think.

You're single not because you are not good enough for one, it's that you're too good for the wrong one.

Set the standards for what you expect of people and the correct ones will join your cause.

Don't settle. If you settle, you already know it's below your standards. You are entitled to the best this life has to offer.

Maybe you're not difficult to live with at all, maybe you're just a busy, successful, beautiful woman who won't settle for anything but the best.

If no one has boundaries…how can there be any transgression?

Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators

There is a Yiddish saying: "If I am going to be forced to eat pork, it better be of the best kind.