Quotes About Quality

I mean to express the quality of a memory, in order to say something about this life we live, so much of which is fugitive, so much of which is lost in the living of it.

There are women out there that will add value to your life - if you keep the wrong ones out.

we're apt to forget that symmetry is not an obvious quality that every creature must have.

I had written all I was going to write, if the truth had been known, and there is nothing wrong with that. If more writers knew that, the world would be saved a lot of bad books, and more people--men and women alike--could go on to happier, more productive lives.

The end of economic growth does not necessarily mean we've reached the end of qualitative improvements in human life.

There are better and worse ditch diggers and garbage collectors. People who work in industry know that no matter how apparently mindless a job is, the job can still be done better or worse, with significant economic consequences.

The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

success or failure, the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

Great Creator, I will take care of the quantity. You take care of the quality.

My grandmother knew what a painful life had taught her: success or failure, the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

But my favorite remained the basic roast chicken. What a deceptively simple dish. I had come to believe that one can judge the quality of a cook by his or her roast chicken. Above all, it should taste like chicken: it should be so good that even a perfectly simple, buttery roast should be a delight.

The German birds didn't taste as good as their French cousins, nor did the frozen Dutch chickens we bought in the local supermarkets. The American poultry industry had made it possible to grow a fine-looking fryer in record time and sell it at a reasonable price, but no one mentioned that the result usually tasted like the stuffing inside of a teddy bear.

The Parisian grocers insisted that I interact with them personally: if I wasn't willing to take the time to get to know them and their wares, then I would not go home with the freshest legumes or cuts of meat in my basket. They certainly made me work for my supper-- but, oh, what suppers!

There is only good vodka and very good vodka—there is no such thing as bad vodka.

Time took on a peculiarly viscous quality.

He is aware that he feels a vague respect for the woman. Mendoza, at least, had never done the reasonable thing, never settled for less, but held to her one insane passion even as it had dragged her into the flames. Such a valuable quality in a pawn.

The secret to a good life, he once told me, 'is to bring your A game to everything you do. Even if all you're doing is taking out the garbage, you do that with excellence.' - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

The secret to a good life, he told me once, is to bring your A game to everything you do. Even if all you're doing is taking out the garbage, you do that with excellence.

chairs were padded. The tables looked clean. There were napkin dispensers on the tables instead of rolls of cheap

The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.

Keep the best, forget the rest.

Ce n'est pas parce qu'un livre n'a pas de succès qu'il est forcément bon.

The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.

I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.