False Alarm Rate

Famous quotes containing the words false, alarm and/or rate:

    “The wisest definition of poetry the poet will instantly prove false by setting aside its requisitions.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.”
    —William Faulkner (1897–1962)