Test Quotes

• Every actor wants to, in our own sort of weird sort of way, we really want to push ourselves and test ourselves.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Want
  • Weird
  • Test

• Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Today
  • Free
  • Choices

• I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Work
  • Down
  • Test

• When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the debriefing. You don't keep something to yourself.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Flight

• When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
  • Positive
  • Lead
  • Pregnancy

• I was about nine years old when a teacher administered my IQ test. Unfortunately, as I was nine, I didn't know that I needed to keep the paperwork for future reference.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Future
  • Teacher
  • Test

• I completely took off my eyebrows one time for a screen test. I hadn't even gotten the role yet. So you have to have a commitment.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Time
  • Commitment
  • Test

• If you are ready to put a product or service on the market, look at that product or service and see how you can test it inexpensively. Keep in mind, you'll only need one; you don't need 1,000 to get the answer.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Mind
  • Service
  • Test

• Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Government
  • Corruption
  • Test

• The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Black
  • Actor
  • Test

• I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.

  

  Isabelle Adjani
  • Yourself
  • Expose
  • Humanness

• Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

  

  Vernon Law
  • She
  • Experience
  • Teacher

• The biggest test for any cricketer in England is the weather.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • England
  • Weather
  • Test

• The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which in 1996 set out to ban nuclear tests, is an important step, but we need to do more - and we can.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Important
  • Step
  • Test

• The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Doctors
  • Treatment
  • Methods

• The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.

  

  Irwin Edman
  • Quality
  • Civilization
  • Leisure

• When you write something, at first you might feel very defensive and protective of every single thing, but after a while, you just see what works and what doesn't. Sometimes you do test screenings, and an audience tells you that, or sometimes you eventually just go, 'Let's cut the joke out.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • You
  • Single
  • Sometimes

• Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Know
  • Gift
  • Test

• Sometimes I wish I could go back in time, sit down with myself and explain that things were going to be okay, that everybody loses ground sometimes and it doesn’t mean anything. It’s the way life works. This is hard to understand in the moment. You get to thinking about the girl who rejected you, the job you got fired from, the test you failed, and you lose sight of the big picture — the fact that life has a beautiful way of remaking itself every few weeks.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Life
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test.

  

  Ian Botham
  • World
  • Think
  • Single

• If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Power
  • Society
  • Test

• The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Test

• I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Good
  • Kids

• On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Space
  • Two
  • Test

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