All Quotes

Standardized sizes made inexpensive, off-the-rack garments economically feasible. They gave shoppers a reliable guide to finding clothes in self-service shops.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.
‐‐ Randi Weingarten

Standards are a little crazy these days. I think that, when you go to sleep, as long as you're happy with the way you are and the way you look, that's the most important thing. I think it's an internal thing. As long as you feel good with who you are and comfortable with what you're wearing, but not if that's the most important thing.
‐‐ Ashlee Simpson

Standards are declining left and right, and it doesn't matter. It's whatever is necessary to prop up Obama.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.
‐‐ Martha Beck

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
‐‐ Pope Benedict XVI

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

Standing around the grill is fine, but I like to have my friends come in and out of the house. Movement makes the party more exciting.
‐‐ Jose Andres

Standing as a witness in all things means all things - big things, little things, in all conversations, in jokes, in games played and books read and music listened to, in causes supported, in service rendered, in clothes worn, in friends made.
‐‐ Margaret D. Nadauld

Standing as a witness in all things means being kind in all things, being the first to say hello, being the first to smile, being the first to make the stranger feel a part of things, being helpful, thinking of others' feelings, being inclusive.
‐‐ Margaret D. Nadauld

Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.
‐‐ Henry Cabot Lodge

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

Standing at a Christian music festival in Asbury, Ky., in the spring of 1978, I gave my life to Jesus Christ, and that's changed everything.
‐‐ Mike Pence

Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.
‐‐ Benjamin Banneker

Standing athwart ineffective, feel-good legislation shouting, 'Stop!' is seen as a betrayal of those struggling to get their footing on the lowest rung of the economic ladder. Yet raising the minimum wage hacks the lowest rungs off the ladder altogether. But economic logic doesn't wash with liberals who are intent on inflaming class warfare.
‐‐ Angela McGlowan

Standing behind a kitchen counter telling people about what ingredients to put in a pot didn't feel right.
‐‐ Trisha Yearwood

Standing center stage in the six foot circle of wood cut from the stage of the Ryman is something I never take for granted. The history and legacy of that circle is awe-inspiring.
‐‐ Blake Shelton

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
‐‐ Margaret Thatcher

Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two.
‐‐ Maria Monk

Standing on soil feels so much different than standing on city pavement; it lets you look inward and reflect and see who you really are, while you see a beautiful, unspoiled land as far as the eye can see. It allows your inner life to grow.
‐‐ Ricardo Montalban

Standing on the podium at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and receiving a gold medal was the crowning jewel in a successful gymnastics career and, most certainly, the confirmation that my parents' sacrifices were not in vain.
‐‐ Dominique Moceanu

Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well.
‐‐ Dave Morris

Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.
‐‐ George Carlin

Standing up and teaching is grueling, but grueling fun.
‐‐ Charles E. Young

Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.
‐‐ Rand Paul

Standing up to Ahmadinejad is not a partisan issue and should never be one.
‐‐ Ted Deutch

Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.
‐‐ Robert Reich

Standing with the poor means walking away from unethical leaders, even when their companies are 'succeeding.'
‐‐ Jacqueline Novogratz

Standup comedy is inordinately difficult. If doing something else for a living will make you equally happy, choose that instead. I'm serious. Comedy is punishing.
‐‐ Aisha Tyler

Standup is a form of therapy. It is OK to tell problems to your audience as long as you are being honest and not boring them. I tell them that I am saving $75 an hour when I talk to them instead of a therapist.
‐‐ Bill Engvall

Standup keeps me grounded and keeps me in touch. I get to go from small towns to big cities, across Canada and the U.S., and you're out there and talking to people. You get a sense of what they respond to.
‐‐ Howie Mandel

Standup really is a young man's game, a single young man's game. Even when I was younger, when I wasn't single, it was hard to be on the road because you go through relationships because your girlfriend kinda got tired of you being gone.
‐‐ Kevin Nealon

Stanford did a lot for me, and I've always felt indebted. It was a lenient and productive environment.
‐‐ James H. Clark

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.
‐‐ John Pomfret

Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.
‐‐ Ken Auletta

Stanley Cup hockey comes around every year, when games start to count in multiples of best-of-seven series, and the players seem to put more attention into every pass, every check, every annoying little trick.
‐‐ George Vecsey

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.
‐‐ Matthew Modine

Stanley Hauerwas is correct that Judaism insists on the bearing of children because it is essential to Jewish continuity. But to end the matter there is to miss an essential point: if we are to learn to love others, Judaism says, we must begin by loving those who are closest to us.
‐‐ Meir Soloveichik

Stanley Kramer? Spencer Tracy? No one turns down being in a movie with them.
‐‐ Phil Silvers

Stanley Kubrick, I had been told, hates interviews. It's hard to know what to expect of the man if you've only seen his films. One senses in those films painstaking craftsmanship, a furious intellect at work, a single-minded devotion.
‐‐ Tim Cahill

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.
‐‐ Roberto Benigni

Stanley Kubrick knew we had good graphics around MIT and came to my lab to find out how to do it. We had some really good stuff. I was very impressed with Kubrick; he knew all the graphics work I had ever heard of, and probably more.
‐‐ Marvin Minsky

Stanley Kubrick made Shelly Duvall go crazy during 'The Shining.' It's like one of the best performances ever. Maybe he shouldn't have gone that far, but I love that movie.
‐‐ Jonah Hill

Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

Stanley Kubrick was a big inspiration. People accuse me of never using my own material. But when did Kubrick? You look at his films and they are completely unique... completely separate entities.
‐‐ Frank Darabont

Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece.
‐‐ Tim Cahill

Staph lives on skin. That's the reason why many infections start as a boil.
‐‐ Anthony Fauci

Staple a green card to their diploma - welcome to the United States of America! We want those people in our country.
‐‐ Mitt Romney

Star performers are my favorite to manage and lead. Star performers are critical to any organization, and the key is how can you capture their heart-share and their mind-share when they're on this fast track.
‐‐ John Stumpf

Star quality is one of the most difficult things to describe. It emanates from the person, and he may not even understand it himself. It's a quality that separates the star from the rest of us.
‐‐ Richard D. Zanuck