Quality Quotes

I just think that sports movies have such a built-in visceral, rooting interest, an epic win or lose redemptive quality. When they get it right, it can make for a really rousing movie experience.

~ Shawn Levy

The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.

~ Jim Fowler

From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system.

~ John Shadegg

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

~ John Ruskin

Quality is everyone's responsibility.

~ W. Edwards Deming

Quality is pride of workmanship.

~ W. Edwards Deming

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don't learn. Quality you are born with.

~ Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.

~ Jarvis Cocker

Honestly, this face of mine will always be familiar to people. It's that unique quality, man. If it's a dark and crowded room, people are just able to point me out. I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous.

~ Ceelo Green

Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.

~ Andy Goldsworthy

At Baptism, I received grace - that quality that makes me share in the very nature of God.

~ Mother Angelica

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

~ Marian Anderson

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

~ Herman Melville

The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!

~ Gary Vaynerchuk

Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.

~ Jeb Bush

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.

~ William Glasser

With more than 67 percent of the Nation's freight moving on highways, economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied to the quality of our infrastructure.

~ Dennis Hastert

People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

~ Zoe Saldana

Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

~ Abdus Salam

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

~ Philip Stanhope

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

~ James Russell Lowell

The perfect ham and cheese sandwich is all about focusing on quality ingredients and about simple techniques. You start with great bread, a well-cured ham and a sharp local cheese, and the rest is easy. A little butter in a pan and a little patience - in the end you'll have a sandwich that is at once comforting and delicious.

~ Daniel Humm

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

I've started ordering out of teen catalogues! T-shirts, little coats, and jackets for around $35 - they're amazing. I've become a really big fan of Urban Outfitters, Alloy and Anthropologie. Because I'll pay for quality, but I will not just pay for trend. Psychologically, I have trouble with that.

~ Ivanka Trump

I went on an audition once for a show, and the feedback was to play an angry teen. My agent convinced me to try out. I was really bitter for a while, because it sucks when you don't get good scripts after working on good quality.

~ Alia Shawkat

I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

~ Beck

If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.

~ Robert Fripp

I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.

~ Robert Morris

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

~ Baruch Spinoza

Gratification and happiness are becoming important measures of our quality of life.

~ Charles Kennedy

We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

~ Theodore White

I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.

~ Reba Mcentire

The other thing is quality of life; if you have a place where you can go and have a picnic with your family, it doesn't matter if it's a recession or not, you can include that in your quality of life.

~ Jim Fowler

What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We are a state of cities, small towns and growing suburbs where life is affordable and destinations within reach. There is no better place to raise a family.

~ Bob Taft

As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.

~ Zaha Hadid

Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.

~ Peter Zumthor

There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.

~ Peter Zumthor

Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect's control.

~ Martin Filler