Tests Quotes - Page 35

Usually, if I think something is really funny, I'm not gonna test it. I'll just test it when I'm onstage.

Donald Trump is going to have to live in the real world in which Vladimir Putin is exactly who he presents himself to be, and Putin is extremely skilled. He's not going to make it very easy for the United States or Germany. And he's going to test Trump.

We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?

England have nothing to lose here, apart from this test match.

If this bloke's a Test match bowler, then my backside is a fire engine

Every time you love someone, you put not just your faith in them, but your faith in everything to the test.

Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.

Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.

All my TV shows are done live in front of audiences, and all the material I take on the road and travel with them test them for hundreds and hundreds of shows before I shoot them for TV.

I'm trying to change theater, in my own way - not just magic. I say that humbly, because I'm learning every single day. I do 15 shows a week, and every single audience I have is like a test screening for you, when you listen and go, "Really? They laughed at that?" All over the stage I have lines, written onstage, that I'm changing every single day.

As a footballer you always want to test yourself against the best.

I don't know what's funny and what's not so I test out all of my material in front of audiences.

Every job I do, I like to think it makes me better or I learn things. It's all about how much something's going to stretch me or test me.

Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.

Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one's immortality... and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.

I think politics in general are just like a popularity contest but McCain is just... old.

The longer the test the better you feel when it's over.

When I was 17, I signed my record deal and passed my driver's test. It was a very good year!

North Korea conducted a nuclear test and the blast was so small that many scientists are saying it was a dud. Apparently, the nuclear bomb didn't work well because it was made in Korea.

I really idolize everything my sisters do,so I went into singing contests and won also. That's how I really got into singing.

Your closest and your most dedicated fans will be your ultimate test. They will test you.

The United States ranks 14th in the world in education. Even if we subtract Sarah Palin's test scores, it only bumps us to third. Damn you, Finland!

There is a division within the neo-conservative movement, which is, by the way, one of the tests of its authenticity as a tendency. I would say I was a supporter of Paul Wolfowitz.

I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.

I think of translations as passing some scholarly smell test: you can read the words of the translation and be reasonably sure of what the words are in the original.