Quotes of: High-standards Keyword

the forecast for tonight is alcohol, low standards, and poor decisions.

Love's Paradox

Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.

Joyce Maynard

We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.

Richard Lamm

Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns.

Mike Davidson

If they are willing to give women economic freedom in that home, if they are willing to live by the standard they wish women to live by, then homes will be preserves.

Agnes Macphail

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

Jeb Bush

No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.

Kate Reardon

I judge the jobs I've had in this business by the places they took me, and by that standard, there simply has been nothing to match 'The National Sports Daily.'

Charlie Pierce

Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline.

Mark Kirk

It's about getting a more democratic Wales for the purpose of improving our economic performance, for improving the delivery of health care, for raising educational standards.

Ron Davies

The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.

Eckhard Pfeiffer

I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.

John Malkovich

My great hero is Billie Holiday, and I've always wanted to do an album of standards with a piano-led quartet.

Tim Curry

I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip, isn't it?

Pat Paulsen

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.

Michelle Obama

The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

Ken Olsen

I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.

Dan Harmon

The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.

Imelda Marcos

Hope is the fuel that raises our standards. Losing it deletes our most basic desires.

Doug Pedersen

There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.

Edith Head