Quotes of Evaluation - somelinesforyou

“ My colleagues are getting nervous. We talk a lot about the president's unfavorable ratings. Have you noticed the ratings of Congress lately? ”

- John McCain

“ The TV ratings are meaningless,... there is no inter-network consistency in the ratings, nor is there even intra-network consistency. ”

- Brent Bozell

“ Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better. ”

- Ted Turner

“ The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings. ”

- Norman Lear

“ While you may not have Boston or New York in it from a ratings standpoint, you do have the third largest market in Chicago and Clemens going for Houston, a team who has never been in a World Series. ”

- Tim McCarver

“ You may not have Boston or New York from a ratings standpoint, but you have the third-largest market and Roger Clemens going for Houston, which has never been in the World Series. ”

- Tim McCarver

“ The higher the school rating the better off we are in having perspective projects look at our area. ”

- Woody Allen

“ He is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber. ”

- Al Franken

“ In the near term we expect excitement to be driven by cross-border M&A and further material restructuring initiatives. Let the M&A dance begin. ”

- James Garner

“ Any time our approval ratings go down we have problems. That's why we're working on Katrina. That's why we're working on Rita. ”

- John McCain

“ My feeling is that the networks, they have a lot of people that spend a lot of time and energy looking at the Nielsen ratings. ”

- Scott Bakula

“ It's amazing what a 38% job approval rating will do. Republicans are terrified that they're going to lose their majority. ”

- Thomas Mann

“ It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings. ”

- Matt Drudge

“ It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. ”

- George Eliot

“ The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand. ”

- Sun tzu

“ True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself, the value he attributes to his own being? ”

- Sherwood Anderson

“ Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic. ”

- Raymond Chandler

“ We're hard at work trying to make parents better understand that they have total control today over what individual programs they allow into their homes. We want to show a closer rapport between the TV ratings system and the movie ratings system. ”

- Jack Valenti

“ We got ratings. It isn't that they won't quarrel with you, or say you're always right. But as long as you stay strong and the ratings are good and you're reasonable - I don't think we fought unreasonably. We basically won that right. ”

- Norman Lear
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