Unyielding Standards Quotes

The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.

Gomez is a by-the-book cop. He's the only character not to break bad.

I never wanted Manchester United to be second to anybody. Only the best would be good enough.

My first teacher... was extremely strict, mean, and deeply religious.

A home life where it's so full of so many rigorous ideas about the way things should be, this word "should," I think is absolutely toxic to children. It hurts their personalities, it hurts their points of view in the world, it hurts their ability to be open and caring and curious. An element of allowance in a family, is, I think, really a positive thing.

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

I don't have to act for work anymore; I can act for passion. That's freeing, but it's also a prison of its own. When you can do anything you want, you're really responsible to do something great. And that's scary.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

My parents, they were just really strict on things being perfect.

I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

My mother was pretty much on my case all the time.

I'm very black and white about what I like or don't like, and I've always been that way.

My father was very strict.

John Howard Davies was not a very human person... if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster.