Study Measured Prevalence

Famous quotes containing the words study, measured and/or prevalence:

    “I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else’s.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead of persuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “That the public can grow accustomed to any face is proved by the increasing prevalence of Keith’s ruined physiognomy on TV documentaries and chat shows, as familiar and homely a horror as Grandpa in The Munsters.”
    —Philip Norman, British author, journalist. The Life and Good Times of the Rolling Stones, introduction (1989)