Standard Reference Range

Famous quotes containing the words standard, reference and/or range:

    “An indirect quotation we can usually expect to rate only as better or worse, more or less faithful, and we cannot even hope for a strict standard of more and less; what is involved is evaluation, relative to special purposes, of an essentially dramatic act.”
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

    “I am more and more convinced that, with reference to any public question, it is more important to know what the country thinks of it than what the city thinks. The city does not think much.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “They didn’t know
    how
    my heart woke
    to a range and measure
    of song
    I hadn’t known.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)