Ratings Quotes

“I believe that, not only in chess, but in life in general, people place too much stock in ratings – they pay attention to which TV shows have the highest ratings, how many friends they have on Facebook, and it’s funny. The best shows often have low ratings and it is impossible to have thousands of real friends.”
― Boris Gelfand

“The relationship between the people and their money in California is such that you can pluck almost any city at random and enter a crisis. San Jose has the highest per capita income of any city in the United States, after New York. It has the highest credit rating of any city in California with a population over 250,000. It is one of the few cities in America with a triple-A rating from Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s, but only because its bondholders have the power to compel the city to levy a tax on property owners to pay off the bonds. The city itself is not all that far from being bankrupt.”
― Michael Lewis, Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World

“The on-screen depiction of oral sex performed on women has consistently earned movies an NC-17 rating – Blue Valentine, Boys Don’t Cry, and Charlie Countryman are a few that come to mind. The same standard has certainly not been applied to on-screen blow jobs. I often think of 2013s Lovelace, a biopic about the star of the 1972 porn film Deep Throat. This was an entire movie dedicated to fellatio, and to extreme sexual violence, and even that was given a mild R. Sure, let the kids watch a porn star get repeatedly raped, but female desire? No, no, no.”
― Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

“I am Orafoura, but you can call me Jarod Kintz. I’m fairly proud to proclaim that Dora J. Arod has me on her short list of “World’s worst writers.” The list couldn’t get any shorter, because I’m the only name on it. I should tell her to stop calling it a list, and change the title to “World’s worst writer.” If you’re wondering why I rate all my work one star, it’s because the rating system doesn’t have a zero star option, or better yet, go into negative numbers.”
― Orafoura

“...the ratings agencies' problem was in being unable or uninterested in appreciating the distinction between risk and uncertainty.”
― Nate Silver

“5 stars = If I weren't taken, I'd marry this book and have its delightful little book babies.

4 stars = goin' steady (or whatever you crazy kids call it these days). So good I'd read it again.

3 stars = A great, one-time fling. I enjoyed it but it probably won't be a reread.

2 stars and below = The pretty thing didn't make it past the pick-up line. I don't rate these because I don't finish them.”
― Eliza Crewe

“A one- or five-star rating is usually an exaggeration.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“After I implement my new policies in class, I will do the same for peer evaluations. For years, I've been giving my colleagues high (and variable) marks on their teaching, research, and service ratings. But, from now on, I plan to give everyone a five (the scale ranges from one to nine) regardless of what kind of a year they had.”
― Mike Adams, Feminists Say the Darndest Things: A Politically Incorrect Professor Confronts "Womyn" on Campus

“I don’t think it’s ever fair for a reader to criticize an author for writing the book the novelist wanted to write, as opposed to the book the reader wished he had written.”
― Kevin Guilfoile

“Cliche is at the root of audience dissatisfaction, and like a plague spread through ignorance, it now infects all story media.”
― Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

“Many solar photovoltaic designers have built systems based on the electrical ratings on the solar module, not realizing that a solar module can put out far more current than what its electrical label states!”
― Steven Magee

“Solar photovoltaic systems that have been designed by what the solar photovoltaic module electrical ratings states for its current should be expected to overheat and possibly go on fire.”
― Steven Magee

“I believe the best reviews are any of those wherein readers share their true opinion, no matter how many stars they rate my work. When I receive responses from appreciative people thanking for useful and amusing reading, it feels like my wings stretch up and blood carries the highest happiness circulating in my veins. I think many writers will understand what I mean by that.”
― Sammy Yobe Lingwalanya

“Have you seen our ratings, Jolene? It’s like we’re back in the nineties. People are watching local TV news again!”
― Christina Estes