Quotes by Boards In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elected to the board of directors. But in the meantime fiction must not only be divorced from fact, but must pay alimony and be awarded custody of the press despatches. O. Henry boards directors art We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one by one into the grave of nothingness. Omar Khayyam pieces boards chess I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of the usherettes standing along the sides of the red-carpeted staircase at the main entrance; I was afraid to go into a restaurant because I was intimidated by the waiters furtively hovering behind me waiting for my plate to be emptied. Osamu Dazai awkward boards waiting When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I don't know about strangers," I replied, "but friends, certainly." Oscar Levant friends boards war I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do. Paddy Ashdown ambassadors boards agreement I built up these lumber piles of love, and with fourteen boards each I built little houses, so that your eyes, which I adore and sing to, might live in them. Now that I have declared the foundations of my love, I surrender this century to you: wooden sonnets that rise only because you gave them life. Pablo Neruda boards eye house [The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent riding the Simplon-Orient Express, as cold-eyed as a pawnbroker viewing a leaky concertina. Paul Murray Kendall agents boards secret It is a sobering fact that the prominence of central banks in this century has coincided with a general tendency towards more inflation, not less. [I]f the overriding objective is price stability, we did better with the nineteenth-century gold standard and passive central banks, with currency boards, or even with 'free banking.' The truly unique power of a central bank, after all, is the power to create money, and ultimately the power to create is the power to destroy. Paul Volcker boards unique gold These commercials, I directed them all from inside the tracking vehicle, so I was traveling about 85mph most of the time, so there wasn't really anyone sitting beside me other than the driver. But, you know, yeah the agency is there and VW is there, which is- they're paying for it all and also because the agency created the boards, they want to make sure that you're not going off the rails in executing it. And also they can help, because they- it's a very different thing to cinema. Paul W. S. Anderson agency boards different I think 3-D across the board both in a home format and cinema is, it's going to be very big. Paul W. S. Anderson boards home thinking I believe you can never change a habit, or create one, with a word or a piece of chalk. You can talk all day, put all sorts of diagrams on the board, but a habit is not going to change. It's a conditional reflex, created by a repetitive act. Pete Newell pieces boards believe Well, back to the old drawing board. Peter Arno drawing boards cheer Well, back to the drawing board. Peter Arno wells drawing boards Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board. Phil McGraw boards life-is sports Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control members lives. No group with high ideals starts off as a cult; they become one when their errant ways are exposed. Philip Zimbardo boards leader way Women politicians take their job seriously and accomplish their duties diligently and sensitively. Only they can understand the problems of women and act as a sounding board for their concerns. Preneet Kaur boards problem jobs You always have to be keeping track, especially in this scenario [ The Hateful Eight], of where everybody is. They're pieces on a chess board. Quentin Tarantino eight track boards Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune. R. Buckminster Fuller four boards earth I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power. Rachel Johnson boards running men For anyone who is not white in America, the affronts are virtually across the board. Randall Robinson boards white america «1011121314151617181920»
