New Gold Standard Quotes

#1. Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaul's research is extraordinary; his writing is taut, elegant, and insightful; and he captures both the hilarity and pain that made Richard Pryor such a towering figure,

Debby Applegate

#2. We should be thanking Apple for launching the $10,000 'apple watch' as the new gold standard in douchebag detection.

Anna Kendrick

#3. Most people are enduring a marginalized isolation. One of the great obstacles to modern friendships is the 'religion of rush.' People are rushing all the time through time. Friendship takes time.

John O'Donohue

#4. There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.

Ali Smith

#5. I don't ever want to be a fair-weather anything. Playing through the elements is always better than sitting on the sidelines.

Lorii Myers

#6. Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired.

Lord Chesterfield

#7. It's always great playing with other musicians. It's also a great situation where I'm the older guy, I've influenced generations of guitar players.

Ace Frehley

#8. She has tender feet, for she walks not on the hard earth, but treads on the heads of men

Arthur Schopenhauer

#9. That tight grip could kill me.Cream running down my fingers."He inhaled deeply."I can scent you.I love the way you smell.Oh,fuck it."He left her side and,keeping his fingers inside her,he moved between her legs.

Laura Wright

#10. If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.

Matthew Modine