Quotes of: Gold-standard Keyword

Over the years, TV has gotten so much better, especially with the advent of cable. The bar has been raised. I think HBO really set the standard with 'The Sopranos,' and then on mainstream TV, shows like 'Lost' broke amazing ground.

Nestor Carbonell

Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation.

James Surowiecki

What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz. So I think it's important to reflect on what made jazz so special.

Stefon Harris

By today’s standards, if you go by the early morning TV misery shows, my broken home family of mixed parentage siblings was quite normal.

Hailey's Story

It is only by our hands that we can build this continent to the standard that we envy and admire in the advanced countries.

I Speak of Ghana

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from , not : to follow one's own path, not that of the crowd.

Rebels and Devils: The Psychology of Liberation

I don't think there's too much normal out there anymore. Though there's still plenty of average to go around.

Standard Hero Behavior

I come from a place where everyone has great power, by your standards, and they steadfastly refuse to use it for self-aggrandizement ... anywhere ... ever.

Selection

By the standards of magical society they’d fallen at the first hurdle: they hadn’t had the basic good sense to keep their shit to themselves.

The Magicians

To visualize that which doesn't exist, yet to believe with confidence that it can be realized, is truly something miraculous.

Motivating Students and Teachers in an Era of Standards

Everybody achieves success in life—a blessed few early in their careers, the rest of us when we lower our standards

Missing in Thailand

Do not do what you cannot continue to deliver. For, remember, the world wants to see a continuity of delivery of set standards...!

Life Simplified!

It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it.

The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

Maybe if we stopped trying to achieve movie standards of greatness, we'd be happy with what we have.

Puddle Jumping

(...)normalcy is an illusion. Each person is utterly unique. A standard of normalcy is something that most people of the world simply will never access.

Tiger's Voyage

...every year for decades there had been great excitement over the Largest Vegetable competition ("That would be my husband", was the standard comment).

Wicked Autumn

We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers.

Bob Filner

The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.

Ernst Engel

Senator Jon Kyl has given all of the eventual candidates in this race an excellent model of how to best serve Arizona and the country. He's set the bar extremely high, and I'll do my best to meet that standard.

Jeff Flake

Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's a good thing, and one of the best arguments for immigration reform, even if you'll rarely hear a politician make it.

James Surowiecki

Let me say I was trained at Juilliard. I have a very high standard. I expect everybody around me to work equally as hard because people pay a lot of money for tickets. They demand the best that we have.

Patti LuPone