Quotes About Quality

The lack of affordable, quality child care is a ticking time bomb.

There are many movies that have done it very badly. The studios have gone for quick profits and audiences are feeling angry. People aren't taking the time and spending the money to do it right. I am.

I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all.

If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.

The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

They did not know that the quicker a fresh-water fish is on the fire after he is caught the better he is;

Dear, dear, it only shows that there is nothing diviner about a king than there is about a tramp, after all. He is just a cheap and hollow artificiality when you don't know he is a king. But reveal his quality, and dear me it takes your very breath away to look at him. I reckon we are all fools. Born so, no doubt.

the quality of certain scraps of verse which take hold of us and stay in our memories, we do not understand why, at first: all the words being the right words, none of them is conspicuous, and so they all seem inconspicuous, therefore we wonder what it is about them that makes their message take hold.

Great books are weighted and measured by their style and matter, and not the trimmings and shadings of their grammar.

The quality of mercy . . . is twice blessed; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes; 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest. it becomes The thronèd monarch better than his crown.

The quality of mercy . . . is twice blessed; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes; 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest. it becomes The thronèd monarch better than his crown. Merchant of Venice

To repeat: her voice has life. It possesses a quality not present in the original, revealing how a nymph can return a different and more meaningful story, in spite of telling the same story.

How did the distillers decide which part of their production was vodka and which was rubbing alcohol? Or did it matter? While

It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

sculpting is really a long series of decisions. When you make good ones, you have a product you like. When you make a bad one, you toss it and start again. And there are always lots of bad decisions. But the good ones are worth waiting for.

I do not admire greatness that has no substance.

It is part of you, and you are a man worth knowing

See the value of imagination. It is the one quality which Inspector Gregory lacks. We imagined what might have happened, acted upon the supposition, and find ourselves justified. Let us proceed.

A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

You can never read bad literature too little, nor good literature too much.