Top 100 Quotes About Caliber
#1. The fact Jeff Teague has never been an All-Star is puzzling to me because he's certainly an All-Star-caliber player,
Frank Vogel
#2. Dwayne's bad chemicals made him take a loaded thirty-eight caliber revolver from under his pillow and stick it in his mouth. This was a tool whose only purpose was to make holes in human beings.
Kurt Vonnegut
#3. I glanced at Badly Drawn Jesus, then pulled the gun from my pocket. On Judgment Day, I'd be able to proudly state that when I thought the hordes of Hell were coming for a local girl, I stood ready to shoot at them with a small-caliber pistol.
David Wong
#4. Statistics is like a high-caliber weapon: helpful when used correctly and potentially disastrous in the wrong hands.
Charles Wheelan
#5. The most successful people I've worked with, like the Rolling Stones - people of a different, kind of legendary caliber - have such great, warm energy.
Christina Aguilera
#6. My hesitation to send Lotus to public school was not based on the caliber of the teachers. It stemmed from the very nature of conventional education.
Cari Donaldson
#7. If you're being the woman God wants you to be and a man still doesn't respect you, surely that isn't the man God has for you. Always hold to the standard of respect you deserve and a great man will easily recognize the caliber of woman you are and treat you accordingly.
Stephan Labossiere
#8. When a lady accessorizes in here in Texas, she's selecting caliber, not color.
Ron Brackin
#9. I want to collaborate with me 'cause I've done so many collaborations that after a certain point unless you're really working with a certain caliber of an artist, there's no point [to collaborate].
Mariah Carey
#10. One of my favorite writers is short story writer/essayist Jorge Luis Borges, who was blind. I'm not claiming to be anything remotely resembling a talent of Borges' caliber, but he is an inspiration and a proof that one can be a meaningful and successful writer while blind.
Larry Howes
#11. You have to want to put a competitive, Stanley Cup-caliber team on the ice in contrast to wanting to hopefully someday financially break even. So you have to really balance expenses with revenue.
Henry Samueli
#12. It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by first-rate artists will materially raise the level of dramatic taste of the nation.
David Sarnoff
#13. Every day, every scene, you were like, "My god. I'm doing a scene with Brian Cox today and then I'm onto a scene with Stephen Rea." For us young actors, I think we were all very, very star-struck and impressed by the caliber of everyone who came out.
James Norton
#14. A direct relationship exists between the caliber of the writing you read and the caliber of the writing you make.
Robert Benson
#15. Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads.
Alexander Theroux
#16. There's this certain caliber of dancing I was striving for when I was younger, and it's very hard for me to go back and just do it for fun. But I take all other kinds of classes: I take jazz classes, modern classes, and I love doing that instead of going to the gym. The gym is not very much fun.
Summer Glau
#17. When he got loaded, the human cannonball knew there were not many men of his caliber.
George Carlin
#18. I started The Runaways with Sandy West. We shared the dream of girls playing rock and roll. Sandy was an exuberant and powerful drummer. So underrated, she was the caliber of John Bonham. I am overcome from the loss of my friend. I always told her, we changed the world.
Joan Jett
#19. I don't ever want it to be a question whether I'm a Pro Bowl-caliber player, I believe I'm the best at what I do, and it's my responsibility to play like I'm capable of playing and help this defense as much as possible.
Derrick Thomas
#20. People often ask if I pay my speakers to speak. No I don't. If you are able to explain the benefits of the virtual summit to the speaker (which we address in chapter 5) then it will be easy for you to get the caliber of speakers you want.
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
#21. Despite all the pressure and the caliber of accomplishment, I still can honestly say that it's not all about winning.
Bode Miller
#22. You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.
Roy Romer
#23. The caliber of actors I'm getting to work with and learn from on a daily basis is phenomenal for me as a developing actor.
Graham Phillips
#24. A 22-caliber bullet can travel as fast as 1,022 mph. I learned that at Quantico.
However, the bullet that hit him probably traveled at 818 mph. Sound travels at 761 mph. I hear the bullet after I see the shot enter his head.
But in my mind it all goes so fast that it's just a single message.
Francis Barel
#25. When you look at the caliber of players in the England squad and their ability, why should we go into the tournament fearing anyone?
Frank Lampard
#26. When a highly successful leader retires after a long career, it is very unlikely that his successor will be of comparable caliber. Anyone of similar ability and drive would have gone somewhere else, instead of waiting in the wings for years for a chance to show his own leadership.
Thomas Sowell
#27. To my mind ClickThings, and John Underwood are world champion caliber, and I am delighted to have the opportunity to partner with them.
Boomer Esiason
#28. In graduate school, Aubrey Berg at the Cincinnati Conservatory gave me the chance to perform with the best in the country in Broadway caliber productions.
Aaron Lazar
#29. To have a Welch-caliber C.E.O. is impressive.To have a century of Welch-Caliber C.E.O.'s all grown from the inside - well, that is one key reason why G.E. is a visionary company.
James C. Collins
#30. Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber.
Terry Pratchett
#31. Practice daily, because the quality of your practice determines the Caliber of your performance.
Robin S. Sharma
#32. Such an experiment without actual conditions of war to support it is a foolish waste of time ... I once saw a man kill a lion with a 30-30 caliber rifle under certain conditions, but that doesn't mean that a 30-30 rifle is a lion gun.
Theodore Roosevelt
#33. When one gets reports from scientists, engineers and technicians whose credibility by all common standards is high and whose moral caliber seems to preclude a hoax, one can do no less than hear them out, in all seriousness.
J. Allen Hynek
#34. Personally, I think I am much calmer under incredibly stressful situations, and I've learned to deal with pressure and nerves, which is key to being a performer of any caliber.
James Wolpert
#35. I think I failed miserably on NewsRadio. I was very nervous because of the caliber of the cast - especially Dave Foley - so I think I did a terrible job.
Janeane Garofalo
#36. I would just like to see hip-hop journalism in general take a step up and match the artistry. There have been great writers in music who are the caliber of artist as a writer as the people that they're covering.
Brother Ali
#37. Sunflowers for Sarita is a fast-paced, high caliber romantic suspense. I couldn't stop reading!
Mary Alice Monroe
#38. Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.
Kevin Smith
#39. By the definite science of meditation known for millenniums to the yogis and sages of India, and to Jesus, any seeker of God can enlarge the caliber of his consciousness to omniscience to receive within himself the Universal Intelligence of God.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#40. A man is judged by the company he keeps, and a company is judged by the men it keeps, and the people of Democratic nations are judged by the type and caliber of officers they elect.
William J.H. Boetcker
#41. I was a moron-a complete moron. A loser of the highest caliber.
Lia Habel
#42. You can't measure dreams when you're a dreamer, because most often the caliber is unattainable.
Adamo Macri
#44. That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber, but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information.
Julian Assange
#45. I would never say no to that [marriage] . It hasn't been my path up to this point. I think it would be nice to look forward to that. Meeting somebody of that caliber of "Yes, I want to spend my life with you." Of course, why not. I love the fact that that is legal in every state.
Dave Koz
#46. I don't abuse my body, I've been off 10 months, I still train and I'm always thinking about boxing, so I felt like I would be fine and I just wanted to challenge myself against another top caliber fighter.
Andre Ward
#47. Also, there's the caliber of actors that we keep getting. Lorraine Bracco plays my mom and Chazz Palminteri plays my father, and Brian Dennehy and Donnie Wahlberg have been on the show. And, we've got Billy Burke from Twilight. We've gotten all kinds of fantastic actors. That speaks for itself.
Angie Harmon
#48. Getting this caliber of musicians together [for "90 Millas" CD in September of 2007] is almost impossible to do again.
Gloria Estefan
#49. When you keep the caliber of musicians very high in the band, people are going to come and go. Some of them will be people who have to try various things, it's natural.
Kathy Mattea
#50. I don't think I'm a great singer myself. I'm all right. I've worked with different writers, different producers ... I've just been blessed with the caliber of people I've been able to work with.
Melanie Chisholm
#51. I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion.
Kate Chopin
#52. Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good.
Mercedes Ruehl
#53. By design McCandless came into the country with insufficient provisions, and he lacked certain pieces of equipment deemed essential by many Alaskans: a large-caliber rifle, map and compass, an ax. This has been regarded as evidence not just of stupidity but of the even greater sin of arrogance.
Jon Krakauer
#54. Sometimes I don't go into the studio for quite a while because I haven't found enough good songs. They have to have a certain caliber and connect with me because I'm going to be playing them for the rest of my life. I start off with a circle of friends whose songs I love anyway.
Bonnie Raitt
#55. Amos took a high-caliber automatic that fired self-propelled rounds, recoilless and designed for use in zero g. Old-fashioned slug throwers were more reliable, but in null gravity they were also maneuvering thrusters.
James S.A. Corey
#56. Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber.
Antony Garrett Lisi
#57. There are always ups and downs when you lose a player the caliber of Matt Ryan.
Rich Gunnell
#58. Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#59. You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.
John C. Maxwell
#60. And you, are Ruin, the chosen Carnificem, and WOE is what you're all about, it's your purpose. Doom and Gloom. ~Caliber Creed
Lucian Bane
#61. The man of leadership caliber will work while others waste time, study while others sleep, pray while others play. There will be no place for loose or lazy habits in word or thought, deed or dress. He will observe a soldierly discipline, diet and deportment, so that he may wage a good warfare.
J. Oswald Sanders
#62. Anger is only our friend when we know its caliber and how to aim it.
Neal Shusterman
#63. Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber rounds. We shoot a helicopter out of the sky. That's the only fight I'm in.
Anthony Anderson
#64. We all have our tastes and our type ... [But] for me to say 'You're beautiful', I can only say that to my girlfriend. The word 'beautiful' has such a different caliber than any other word out there, like sexy, hot, cute.
Kellan Lutz
#65. What I have noticed which I'm not nuts about that the trend that a lot of shows are hiring the American Idol type of talent without real training and real technique and I think that audiences are smart and sometimes seeing that things are not as high caliber as they were before.
Hugh Panaro
#66. Any time you're playing a playoff-caliber team, it is always good to show well, because you don't know when you'll be seeing them again.
John Lackey
#67. I did a film which was considered an independent movie with Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia called Confidence, and that's the type of film I was willing to take a chance on that because of the caliber of people involved with the film.
Morris Chestnut
#68. A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.
Marvin Bower
#69. The British were keen for 30 caliber guns, did not believe in daylight bombing. American experts said 30 caliber was not enough; we had to have 50 caliber, also said daylight bombing was right provided the planes attacked in formation, with 50 caliber guns.
Stuart Symington
#70. People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
Van Wyck Brooks
#71. I grew up watching Marlon Brando, Christopher Walken, Robert de Niro, and Al Pacino and even Robert Duvall and was impressed by their caliber of work.
Cole Hauser
#72. To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.
Arne Duncan
#73. Timothy Spall - best known to mainstream audiences as Wormtail in the Harry Potter series - delivers an Oscar-caliber tour de force reminiscent of Charles Laughton
Lou Lumenick
#74. I've been to a number of places and seen for myself the caliber of people who are in the Navy today - in all the services for that matter. This is an altogether different bunch. These people of today are really bright, young, good people.
Ernest Borgnine
#75. The history says quarterbacks get paid more than running backs, but I think it depends on the caliber of the player - what you're getting, not just what the position is.
Reggie Bush
#76. And if whatever you're shooting doesn't die after you pump eight thirty-two-caliber slugs into it, it's probably a dragon.
Sterling Archer
#77. I've never met anyone who has convinced me to say, "No, I'm not gonna take the next Spielberg film, I think I'll stay here and have a baby." I've never met anyone of that caliber.
Stephanie Zimbalist
#78. As an actor, you always look for things that will stretch you and that are different than you are, so that you can surprise yourself, and you want to surround yourself with the highest caliber of people that will make you look good.
Emmy Rossum
#79. The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.
John Thorn
#82. Sometimes, you pinch yourself. I get to do such incredibly fun things with people who are of such an incredible caliber. It's really, really awesome.
David Costabile
#83. Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They're just cutting through that caliber of acting.
Matthew Lillard
#84. As American society grows more elitist, it produces a worse caliber of elites. The
Christopher L. Hayes
#85. In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.
Thomas Keller
#86. 'I'll sit on him,' Otis says and laughs like it's the funniest thing in the world. He twirls a small ball of fire in one hand and a Desert Eagle .50 Caliber in the other. If Seven didn't know him, he'd probably be running away as fast as he could. It's a big gun.
T.J. Klune
#87. Goody. That must be why they were looking for a 22-caliber anything when they came by with their search warrant this morning.'
'They didn't!'
'They did.'
'When?'
'Oddly enough, right before I upped my meds.
Sandra Balzo
#88. Sticks and stones and small caliber bullets may break my bones ... Words will never, et cetera.
Jim Butcher
#89. Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.
Carl Levin
#90. Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have.
Andy Stanley
#91. The breeding programs for the bulls have improved significantly. The bulls are at a much higher caliber.
Chris LeDoux
#92. I'm a perfectionist, so doing a high quality, high caliber television show with great actors makes me feel like there's this whole world of television that I've never experienced.
Vinessa Shaw
#93. To achieve its New World Order plans, the Omega Agency needed people who could make use of their primordial instincts, who wouldn't question the morality of orders and who would kill without hesitation. Operatives of that caliber were priceless.
James Morcan
#94. As you evolve, the friends and lovers you attract will be of a higher caliber. Embrace that fact and do not be afraid to leave old relations behind if they cease to be compatible with you.
Shane Eric Mathias
#95. You tend to become that, what you want most. Look to the light of God, expect the best and give it your best. Make success happen with devotion and dedication. You can do it.
Mark LaMoure
#96. Everything big, once started little. Discipline yourself and work to become an excellent person at what you want. Stretch yourself daily and go a little further than yesterday. Growth is the key to winning success.
Mark LaMoure
#97. Make success happen by striving and working to be the best. Aim at excellence and hit the target.
Mark LaMoure
#98. You are the artistic painter of your success. Paint your life day-by-day, into a masterpiece of excellence over a lifetime.
Mark LaMoure
#100. Improve yourself. Raise your attitude up to excellence for success. Get going now and create the reality.
Mark LaMoure
