Index Quotes

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

An index is a great leveller.

There's this index that tallies up how much your movies have made, and if they haven't grossed a certain amount, then you're not bankable. I know I'm not Will Smith but, you know, my ranking's pretty low. The only studio picture I've done is 'Zodiac,' and that didn't perform that well.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system.

We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index.

To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound.

I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.

I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.

Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

In order to know the true situation of a Planet at any particular time, the small set of balls are to be put each on its respective axis; then the winch to be turned round until each index points to the given time.

Index investing outperforms active management year after year.

Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

I would say to my colleague that the misery index, inflation and unemployment, when added together is the lowest it has been in the last series of Presidents, even going back to Jimmy Carter. So I think the Bush administration is doing a good job.

One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.