#caliber

The British were keen for 30 caliber guns, did not believe in daylight bombing. American experts said 30 caliber was not enough; we had to have 50 caliber, also said daylight bombing was right provided the planes attacked in formation, with 50 caliber guns. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#american #attacked #believe #bombing #british

Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good. ↗

— Mercedes Ruehl

#awhile #caliber #good #kind #other

That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber, but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information. ↗

— Julian Assange

#any #caliber #disclosures #enormous #enough

The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball. ↗

— John Thorn

#basketball #caliber #called #college #college football

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#bent #breeding #caliber #good #good breeding

I've been to a number of places and seen for myself the caliber of people who are in the Navy today - in all the services for that matter. This is an altogether different bunch. These people of today are really bright, young, good people. ↗

— Ernest Borgnine

#been #bright #bunch #caliber #different

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients. ↗

— Carl Levin

#cannot #damage #escape #even #hospitals

Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They're just cutting through that caliber of acting. ↗

— Matthew Lillard

#becoming #caliber #character #character actors #cutting

In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships. ↗

— Thomas Keller

#building #caliber #chefs #position #relationships