Quartile Quotes

#1. The surest way to find an actively managed fund that will have top-quartile returns is to look for a fund that has bottom-quartile expenses.

Burton Malkiel

#2. Yet in this my stars were not Mercury as morning star in the angle of the seventh house, in quartile with Mars, but they were Copernicus, they were Tycho Brahe, without whose books of observations everything which has now been brought by me into the brightest daylight would lie buried in darkness.

Johannes Kepler

#3. The top quartile, those who did the exercise most rapidly and effectively, work in space that is substantially different from that of the bottom quartile. The top performers' space is quieter, more private, better protected from interruption, and there is more of it. What

Tom DeMarco

#4. A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a single year ... That means that if the entire U.S., for two years, had top-quartile teachers, the entire difference between us and Asia would go away.

Bill Gates

#5. Humans are caught - in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too - in a net of good and evil.

John Steinbeck

#6. A thriller must be thrilling. A mystery may or may not be a thriller depending on how much breathless emotion it has, as opposed to cerebral calculation.

David Morrell

#7. The war in Iraq is still going on. The British are helping. Mexico wants to help, but they need a ride over there.

Felipe Esparza

#8. We could walk 3 minutes and be on the beach. I think the music kind of suffered because of it. It kind of smelled like Jimmy Buffett, which is a bad thing.

John Mellencamp

#9. RE: Lake George from a book by Lord. That's all I know.
There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees ... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces

Georgia O'Keeffe

#10. I knew that I loved him. I knew that he was the only man I would ever love.

Rachel Higginson

#11. The pain we bring to others we cannot escape ourselves.

Morgan Llywelyn

#12. It's great to know that you aren't the only person "odd" in this world... stories stop the time and games help to go more fast... - what more awesome than to have these two abilities?

Deyth Banger

#13. I didn't practise it loads when I was at the academy in Spain, but when I got on the ATP Tour it's something I dedicated a lot of time to.

Andy Murray

#14. I got involved in Gateway National Park and just became fascinated with gardens.

Alexandra Kerry

#15. I want to be sure that if people are coming to a show and paying $100 that I want to give them their money's worth. I try to give 100 percent.

Hugh Panaro

#16. Life can be a real son of a bitch sometimes, bringing things back around long after you've said good-bye.

David Arnold

#17. I love a warm bath at the end of a day.

Cynthia Nixon