I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem—and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
The more successful you become, the longer the yardstick people use to measure you by.
Now that the generation that grew up on '80s indie-rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new yardstick. And that will shift yet again some day.
Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
That picture has become a sort of yardstick for everything else I've done.
In retrospect, 'Pulp Fiction' isn't just the template for everything Tarantino has done but the yardstick by which everything else he does is measured one way or another.
Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.
For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
