Quotes about Touchstone

Tyler Perry's brand is faith, family and this whole thing that I've built, while my company, 34th Street Films, is like Disney's Touchstone. We can do anything. People don't know what to expect from me yet. Votes: 4

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them. Love is the most impregnable refuge of self-esteem, and we hate the eye that reaches to our nakedness. Edith Wharton ~ The Touchstone Votes: 3

My touchstone for every question is the Constitution. Votes: 2

The eighties were my teen years, so the GoGos are sort of a touchstone. Votes: 2

For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone. Votes: 2

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it. Votes: 2

For some reason, 1968 is a touchstone year for me. I think it was the first year I felt fully conscious. Votes: 2

I think you can see that in the show. Music was my touchstone. Music is still much more important to me. Votes: 2

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. Votes: 2

Over the years, a lot of rappers - Lil' Wayne, Ice Cube - have used my name in their songs. I'm a real touchstone of history. Votes: 2

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. Votes: 2

Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sweeney Todd' was a huge touchstone for me, my favorite musical for sure. Votes: 2

I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve. Votes: 2

When you tell people you're a playwright, their eyes sort of glaze over. But when you say you write the 'Fantastic Four' or 'Spider-Man,' they perk up. It's a touchstone that has gained more credibility as artistic expression. Votes: 2

One day in 1984, at the height of his fame, Michael Jackson made a visit to the White House. President and Nancy Reagan may not have dug his music, but they understood the power Mr. Jackson commanded as a common pop-cultural touchstone for just about everyone else. Votes: 2

The human person, whose definition serves as the touchstone according to which good must be distinguished from evil, is considered as sacred, in what one might call the ritual sense of the word. It has something of that transcendental majesty which the churches of all times have given to their Gods. Votes: 2

A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world. Votes: 2

I feel like bands should be growing, living, functioning entities and to crystallize a band into a single album, and for that to be a touchstone - I understand it from a fan's perspective but I also feel like it's a little bit misleading in terms of the way bands actually function. Votes: 2

I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone. Votes: 2

I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its proximity to the mountains - Christchurch is two hours distant from the worn saddle of Arthur's Pass, the mountain village that was and is my father's spiritual touchstone, his chapel and cathedral in the wild. Votes: 2

It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities. Votes: 2

A TV touchstone for me is 'The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.' That series was whimsical and smart and had the mix of comedy and drama that I now trade in - but with a dash of magical realism. I wanted to be Molly Dodd, but more than that, I wanted to be Jay Tarses, who created the show. Votes: 2

I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if its not something that I have a longing to celebrate or to be reminded of, if it doesn't affect me, then how can I possibly think it is going to affect somebody else. My touchstone is write something that matters. Votes: 2

Calamity is man's true touchstone. Votes: 0

Chess is the touchstone of intellect. Votes: 0

Pain is the touchstone of all growth Votes: 0

The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu. Votes: 0

As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men. Votes: 0

The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity. Votes: 0

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship. Votes: 0

The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit. Votes: 0

Compassion is the litmus test and culminating touchstone of a spirituality of Earth. Votes: 0

Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured. Votes: 0

Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement. Votes: 0

In the midst of regular life, running is the touchstone that breathes adventure into my soul. Votes: 0

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion. Votes: 0

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures. Votes: 0

My touchstone is just fear and anxiety and I know a lot about those two awful emotions. Votes: 0

In all we do we must cultivate faith. Increased faith is the touchstone to improved church performance. Votes: 0

A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology. Votes: 0

We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent. Votes: 0

Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit. Votes: 0

Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence. Votes: 0

The touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends. Votes: 0

A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength. Votes: 0

In many ways [those middle-aged black ladies] my touchstone, because they are what I meant when I talked about the audacity of hope. Votes: 0

Our problem is that when you lose the touchstone, which is humanity, then when you have something like humans dying, it needs to feel profound. Votes: 0

Experience stands on its own dunghill in medicine, and reason yields it place. Medicine has always professed experience to be the touchstone of its operations. Votes: 0

Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal. Votes: 0

What I am endeavoring to do is simply speak the truth, speak common-sense values, free market principles and the Constitution. For every question, the Constitution is my touchstone. Votes: 0

The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself. Votes: 0

The measure of mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job. Votes: 0

Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure the rest of our lives against? Votes: 0

Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique. A sound mental approach toward stock fluctuations is the touchstone of all successful investment under present-day conditions. Votes: 0

The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal. Votes: 0

The American people have got a touchstone: Which party voted for the tools necessary to protect America and which party didn't? And that's what I'm trying to get people to focus on. Votes: 0

I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve. Votes: 0

Being for every man the touchstone of faith and love, the Eucharist, like on the Cross, divided the minds as soon as it was announced... Nothing engages a man as much as does the Eucharist Votes: 0