Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Costolo

Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.

Donald Sutherland

One measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Damon Galgut

Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present moment; poetry was the antidote to history. Poetry was language free from habit.

Lord Kelvin

If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.

Grace Hopper

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Phyllis Diller

They just elected me Mis Phonograph Record of 1966. They discovered my measurements were 33 1/2, 45, 78!

Niels Bohr

The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.

Peter Drucker

If you can't measure it, you can't change it.

Penelope Wilton

I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?

Charles Caleb Colton

The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.

William Shakespeare

For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.

David Hume

The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other.

Benjamin Franklin

Let thy vices die before thee.

Diane Arbus

One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.

Juvenal

Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.

Juvenal

The love of popularity holds you in a vice.

Arthur Helps

The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.

Augustus Hare

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

Alan Greenspan

In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.

David Shields

Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.

Earl Weaver

Momentum is only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher.

Richard Herring

We have seen a lot of momentum buying,

Ben Gordon

When we go down to Miami, we've got to keep the snowball going. We've got momentum going. We've got confidence. So we've got to keep it up.

Ben Gordon

When we go down there, we've got to keep the snowball rolling. We have momentum right now. We have confidence. So we need to keep that up.

Dave Tippett

We feel the momentum is on our side now.

Arthur Keith

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

Ken Klee

Momentum switches in a heartbeat, ... I thought we were taking it to them, then there was one extraordinary play by their guy. ... I'd like to have it over again.