Test Quotes

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.

The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School.

They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.

Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality.

Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

Here's a proposal, offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States, whether born here or abroad, should get to be a citizen until age 18, at which time each such resident has to take a test.

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.

I think England will win a Test. My concern is Australia will probably win two.

If I knew I was positive, why would I have ever gone to PAW to take a test?

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences.

Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you.

The ultimate test of a finished account executive is his ability to write a sound marketing plan.

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.

My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn't remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to 'em in a minute.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

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

It was a few days later I came out to Hollywood for a screen test, and so did a lot of other people. So, I really didn't think I would get it. I was definitely the one that was least likely to get it, because everyone else was an already established star.

My time inside there was very short compared to the amount of time it took to take on and take off this suit and to test me for how much radioactivity I have.

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test.

Did you know that the White House drug test is multiple choice?

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.