Standard Time Zone

Famous quotes containing the words standard, time and/or zone:

“... the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God’s will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)

“The last time we used battleships was in the Spanish-American War. And what did we get out of that? Cuba. And we gave that back.”
—Robert Riskin (1897–1955)

“The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)