I’m not a bad driver. And I never will be because I took lessons when I was quite a boy. I never had to pass a test because there wasn’t such a thing when I first started driving a motor car. So I didn’t have to pass one. – Richard Murdoch
You can over-think things. If the script’s good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don’t learn things for auditions, because I feel like it’s just a test of memorising rather than being real. – Olivia Colman
A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend. – Olivia Wilde
If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it… if it doesn’t stand the test of public scrutiny then don’t do it. – Ratan Tata
In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better they did on the practical tests, the worse they did on the IQ test. – Robert Sternberg
Given the level of anti-Americanism in the world, given the level of frustration with the United States throughout the Muslim world, you’ve got a homegrown attack or you have a nuclear explosion in the air that is not a test somewhere. Those are still the biggest threats out there. – Robert D. Kaplan
It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old. – Randal Kleiser
It was a long, hard, tough day. We managed to just sneak through, it was an unbelievable Test match. – Ricky Ponting
The point is you talk the talk, but do not walk the walk, vis-a-vis you’ve not yet passed your forklift driver’s test. – Ricky Gervais As David Brent, in The Office (UK).
I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I’d like to play that’s not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible. – Parker Stevenson
When we launched a new company, I reviewed the ads and marketing materials and asked those presenting the campaign to read everything aloud to test the phrasing and concept. If I could grasp it quickly, then it passed with muster. We would get our message across only if it was understandable at first glance. – Richard Branson
In Mexico, to become a pro wrestler, you have to have a wrestling license, and to get a license, you have to pass a wrestling test. – Rey Mysterio
Length of years is no proper test of length of life. A man’s life is to be measured by what he does in it and what he feels in it. – Samuel Smiles
I listen to music a lot on the treadmill – I would test ‘Raditude’ songs out on the treadmill. – Rivers Cuomo
Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale. – Richard Hammond
As digital equipment replaces the jobs of routine workers and lower-level professionals, technicians are needed to install, monitor, repair, test, and upgrade all the equipment. – Robert Reich
Football is easy when things are going well, but when its not, it becomes the biggest test. – Ryan Giggs
But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin’s statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts. – Richard Owen
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t. – Richard Bach
There’s no religious test in our country, and there shouldn’t be. We’re an open, competitive society. – Sam Brownback
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you’ve got it when you can’t think of anything that’s your fault. – Robert M. Hutchins
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. – Samuel Johnson
I think Wilco is going to definitely stand the test of time – no question – and Uncle Tupleo, and the whole No Depression scene, which is now alt-country. I think that’s going to be around a long time. – Roger McGuinn
On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background – the commander and the pilot. – Sally Ride
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, ‘Can he name a kitten?’ – Samuel Butler
There’s no more place in the euro zone for well-meaning laxness when dealing with deficits and failings. If the demands on Greece aren’t taken seriously, we’ll get stuck in quicksand. In the worst case, this would make it acceptable for one tranche to not be paid out. It is in the Greeks own interest not to test that. – Peer Steinbruck