Standard Gauge Line

Famous quotes containing the words standard and/or line:

“Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of a standard man?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice—that is, until we have stopped saying “It got lost,” and say, “I lost it.””
—Sydney J. Harris (b. 1917)