#rank

When I was old enough to go to movies alone, I got to see 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula' on the big screen. I just fell in love with them. ↗

— George A. Romero

#big #big screen #dracula #enough #fell

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#admit #another #common #common sense #fails

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#another #fails #frankly #means #method

It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. ↗

— James Roosevelt

#delano #down #folks #franklin #grandfather

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#better #checkered #dare #defeat #enjoy

Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#class #dickens #earlier #few #first

Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important decision, like how to discipline or what baby sitter to hire, has to be made. ↗

— Pepper Schwartz

#children #decision #discipline #equal #give

I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#commission #create #earned #got #grant

In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#because #brilliant #comparison #google #links

I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me. ↗

— Nancy Sinatra

#daughter #frank #hard #i #joke