#rating

I - it's simply not for me to evaluate an independent rating agency's processes. But I will say that there was reason to be anxious - absolute reason to be anxious. ↗

— Jay Carney

#agency #anxious #evaluate #i #independent

I have never met a happy atheist. I believe in separation of church and state, but I think we have gone so far over in the other direction of separating church and state. ↗

— Dixie Carter

#believe #church #direction #far #gone

Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere. ↗

— Brit Hume

#because #dollars #down #everywhere #expect

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition. ↗

— Henry Clay

#competition #greater #human #human powers #mankind

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

#exceedingly #generating #high #high degree #improbability

On top of the horror of separating from your wife, you have to go through it in public. ↗

— Norman Cook

#horror #public #separating #through #top

You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#book #bright #bubble #cathedral #contains

My deal was that they would use a full-length picture of me in my underwear and a full-length picture of me all done up, and they would write about how long it took and how much it cost, because that was the whole point. It was very liberating. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#because #cost #deal #done #how

I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#against #because #been #began #course

Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#asking #become #besides #character #characters