#testing

I was not rebelling by smoking dope or drinking, I was testing ideas. I was experimenting with voice, what I could say and still be heard in an atmosphere of prescribed truths. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#testing-ideas #experience

Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confidence #confirmation #confirmed #creativity #error

If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#animal-rights #animal-testing #animal-welfare #animals #cosmetics

Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships. ↗

— Jonathan Cain

#bands #create #everything #little #make

The purpose of random testing is not to catch, punish, or expose students who use drugs, but to save their lives and discover abuse problems early so that students can grow up and learn in a drug-free environment. ↗

— John Walters

#catch #discover #early #environment #expose

I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice. ↗

— Cassandra Wilson

#artist #develop #different #different ways #especially

Road testing the effects of regulation on European business must become second nature to the European Union. ↗

— John Hutton

#business #effects #european #european union #must

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#every #form #point #simply #testing

It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#agree #certainly #cruel #currently #difficult

Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the system, giving defendants access to DNA testing and evidence whenever it might be relevant. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#convicts #defendants #dna #evidence #finds