Touchstone Quotes

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.
Bertrand Russell

Poetry, True, Sense

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

Difficult, Less, Pleasure

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.
Tyler Perry

Faith, Family, Whole

My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
Ted Cruz

For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
Walter Jon Williams

Period, Reader, Sf

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.
Eric McCormack

Life, School, Trying

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.
Jim Barksdale

Power, Give, Free

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
Felix Frankfurter

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.
Bill Owens

Change, Time, Freedom

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

Music, Important, Show

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.
Tate Taylor

History, Forget, Give

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