Tests Quotes - Page 31

I think Nevada is going to really be the first true test of whether or not these candidates have particular strengths in particular demographics.

I saw Cara Delevingne like five, six times. And I was never talking about the film [Valerian]. And then at the end, I say okay, let's do some test. She says yeah, yeah, good. So I took her in the room, and I test her for like six hours non-stop. Exercise, exercise, exercise for six hours. It was actually funny. And then I knew at the end of the six hours.

The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal.

Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test.

I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

Cabel smiles and hangs up. "Guess what." What," Janie says. We can go out on our first date." Woo hoo!" And guess what else- You're buying." Me? Why?" Because you lost the bet." Janie thinks for a moment. Punches Cabel in the arm. "You did not fail five quizzes or tests!" I did. I have proof.

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

I love to test boundaries.

I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong.

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.

Good advertising is a happy wedding of words and pictures, not a contest between them.

It's more going back into, I've always been really interested in the MKULTRA program and some of the programs and the fact that we really tried to create an actual, I guess you could call it an energy force of yourself. And you know, there were test subjects that were killed during the process. It have a huge ordeal, this huge congressional hearing that shut the whole thing down.

Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional.

The surest test if a person be sane, is if she accepts life whole, as it is.

There's nothing simpler than avoiding people you don't like. Avoiding one's friends, that's the real test.

The whole idea of timing tests is a century old, from a scientist who thought speed and ability were tightly correlated, which they are not.

It would be morally reprehensible not to tell the truth... Everything I have written has stood the test of time.

Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.

I have played a lot of Test cricket with Paul Collingwood over the past year. I seem to be spending more time with him than my fiancee.

The practice of first developing a clear and precise definition of a process without regard for efficiency, and then using it as a guide and a test in exploring equivalent processes possessing other characteristics, such as greater efficiency, is very common in mathematics. It is a very fruitful practice which should not be blighted by premature emphasis on efficiency in computer execution.

I just want to test out all that Kellan is and push him to the limits and create new Kellans.

That was Robert Aldrich. And that [Emperor Of The North] was one of the only times I actually got a part in a movie in the conventional way: The role was there, I auditioned, I auditioned again, and then I actually did a full-fledged screen test, which they shot on a soundstage on the lot at 20th Century Fox. They put up a set, and Robert Aldrich actually directed me in this screen test.

Many of us will not survive our tests in mortality without help from others. And just as true: in helping others we keep our own spirits alive.

What I do . . . the path I tread . . . it brings some choices that test me hard.

Writers of either gender ought to be able to do the opposite sex-that's one basic test of competence, after all.