Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my power and dominion.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my power and possessions.

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor and the proper fondness for his mother.

Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.

I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside.

Any health care funding plan that is just equitable civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.