Quality Quotes

Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.

~ Annabelle Selldorf

I'm drawn to girls with a certain self-effacing, humorous quality and an innate independence and point of view. I love the notion of never taking yourself too seriously or being too put together.

~ Chris Benz

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

~ William Glasser

Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.

~ Yo-Yo Ma

We're committed to making sure parents have affordable, quality early learning for their kids - there's no question about it.

~ Justin Trudeau

Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.

~ Debbie Stabenow

The food industry profits from providing poor quality foods with poor nutritional value that people eat a lot of.

~ Mark Hyman

I think steak is the ultimate comfort food, and if you're going out for one, that isn't the time to scrimp on calories or quality.

~ Tom Colicchio

While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes.

~ Mark Hyman

The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you also have a choice of eating in the more traditional restaurants, the Churchill Room or the Members' Dining Room. I don't often eat in them, though, as I'm usually on the run.

~ Vince Cable

Scotch beef, salmon and shellfish are recognised the world over for their excellence and Scottish provenance. People recognise the Scottish brand. They associate the country with quality food and drink, and clearly other Scottish sectors, such as dairy, can benefit from that, too.

~ Nicola Sturgeon

Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.

~ Ted Nugent

A program to make municipal composting of food and yard waste mandatory and then distributing the compost free to area farmers would shrink America's garbage heap, cut the need for irrigation and fossil-fuel fertilizers in agriculture, and improve the nutritional quality of the American diet.

~ Michael Pollan

When you grow up close to poultry and fields and gardens and open-air markets, you can't help but develop an instinct for quality food.

~ Alain Ducasse

The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.

~ Bryan Q. Miller

I just think Valentine's Day is a day to really appreciate the person you love, no matter who it is, and to spend time with them. I don't think it's all about fancy presents or whatever. I think it's about spending that quality time with that special person.

~ Prince Royce

Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.

~ Minna Antrim

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

~ Henry Ford

Learn to invest in the best quality you can afford and wear pieces in different ways.

~ Michael Kors

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

~ George Washington

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

~ Virginia Woolf

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

~ Booker T. Washington

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

~ William S. Burroughs

Don't underestimate the cosmetic power of sunglasses. It's worth spending a bit of money on a quality pair. I usually go for Dior or Louis Vuitton.

~ Dita Von Teese

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

~ Herbert Read

We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.

~ Gale Norton

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

~ Napoleon Hill

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

~ William Ellery Channing

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Productivity depends on many factors, including our workforce's knowledge and skills and the quantity and quality of the capital, technology, and infrastructure that they have to work with.

~ Janet Yellen

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.

~ Samuel Horsley

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

~ Virginia Woolf

You can rest a lot in an hour or have a whole day and not do it properly. One way I get a quality recharge is to connect with nature. To experience something that's bigger than me.

~ Lili Taylor

Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.

~ Xavier Becerra

I think President Obama wanted to have the right fit for his different cabinet positions, and I believe that experience is what mattered most to him. In my case, I have been working to improve the overall quality of life for working families for most of my adult life, and I think that experience resonated with the president.

~ Hilda Solis

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

~ William Styron

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

~ George S. Patton

There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.

~ Patrick Stump