Actual Failure Rate

Famous quotes containing the words actual, failure and/or rate:

    “The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    “Sitting by a lamp more often brings
    Not peace, but other things.
    Beyond the light stand failure and remorse....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “We honor motherhood with glowing sentimentality, but we don’t rate it high on the scale of creative occupations.”
    —Leontine Young (20th century)