#rank

Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#close #enter #first #group #must

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#ever #frankly #greatest #here #i

Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#came #carry #could #even #every

First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#did #everybody #first #new #new york

My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever done that, ever. There's the fax. Too many distractions. I like to go out and write. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#author #checking #distractions #done #email

Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#almost #class #completely #effect #extra

I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring. ↗

— Joan Collins

#boring #did #frankly #gets #girl

Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#actor #back #bring #ever #frank

It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#dali #did #fit #found #frank

Frank imitated the voice of Vitellius: “They’re wimps! Back in my day, we died all the time, and we liked it! ↗

— Rick Riordan

#frank #jackson #jupiter #neptune #percy