Quotes About Quality

I'm drawn to girls with a certain self-effacing, humorous quality and an innate independence and point of view. I love the notion of never taking yourself too seriously or being too put together.

I love to star in movies, but I want to have good roles. It doesn't help to get starring roles in something that's no good. I mean, that will just kill you.

I believe books should be like a prime rib steak ~ good and thick.

In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie's time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. Why did we bother with all the distractions we did? .. give up days and weeks of our lives, addicted to someone else's drama.

In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie's time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. Why did we bother with all the distractions we did?

Some things are too good. They make everything else worthless.

The center [of the supermarket] is for boxed, frozen, processed, made-to-sit-on-your-shelf-for-months food. You have to ask yourself, If this food is designed to sit in a box for month and months, what is it doing inside my body? Nothing good, that´s for sure.

When we speak of someone as "well-read," we should have this ideal in mind. Too often, we use that phrase to mean the quantity rather than the quality of reading. A person who has read widely but not well deserves to be pitied rather than praised. As Thomas Hobbes said, "If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

Happiness, as Aristotle says, is the quality of a whole life. He means whole not only in a temporal sense but also in terms of all the aspects from which a life can be viewed

There is something maddening about mediocrity that calls forth the worst in those who are forced to deal with it.

Sandwiches,' she said, 'like diamonds, are forever.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. THOREAU, Walden

Innanzitutto scegliete quaranta gamberi piuttosto grandi e vivaci. Devono essere pieni di vita e in grado di pizzicarvi con facilità il mignolo. Se avete bisogno di verificarlo, chiedete a un assistente; sono lì per quello.

His voice wasn't loud, but there was a quality to it that made Matt shiver even though he—for once—wasn't the one in trouble.

No matter how good the message may be, it will be useless unless it is done well (Interview in A Contemporary Cuba Reader, 2000)

emissions while raising people's quality of life. We have only a decade.

There's a considerable distance between seeking perfection and irretrievable haste

La meritocrazia e il clima mediterraneo sono di necessità incompatibili. È il prezzo che paghiamo per avere il miglior olio d'oliva d mondo, immagino.

Popolo ingegnoso gli svizzeri... Orologi e cioccolatini: l'essenza della vita.

A valóság sosem múlja felül az irodalmat, legalábbis a minÅ'segit nem.

Reality never beats fiction, at least not quality fiction.

I figured that once you've had steak, it's kind of hard to go back to bologna.

The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.

The blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.