Boards Quotes - Page 3

• In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Graduation

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.26, St. Martin's Press

  90 Copy quote

  Show source

• Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.

  Josh Billings

  Mother, Law, Pay

  8 Copy quote

• Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.

  Mitch Daniels

  Weed, Real, Government

  16 Copy quote

• I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Sports, Ice, People

  "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.

  65 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

  H. L. Mencken

  Wise, Running, Wisdom

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.80, Knopf

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.

  Derek Jeter

  Inspiring, Success, Baseball

  FaceBook post by Derek Jeter from Aug 29, 2012

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.

  Ella Maillart

  People, Understanding, Literature

  22 Copy quote

• So be encouraged and dedicate yourself to your dream and if your dream should come my way one day then we will dance upon the boards of life.

  Ben Vereen

  Dance, Dream, One Day

  46 Copy quote

• And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.

  Spike Milligan

  Light, Waiting, Thursday

  Spike Milligan (2004). “The compulsive Spike Milligan”

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.

  Grover Cleveland

  Storm, Democracy, May

  "The American Mercury" Magazine, Volume 93, 1961.

  93 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

  Warren Buffett

  Country, Double Standard, Bulls

  9 Copy quote

• This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.

  A. P. Herbert

  Sea, Trade, Officials

  Tinker Tailor (1922) "The President of the Board of Trade"

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Player, Games

  'Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews' (1870) 'A Liberal Education'

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• The average American's day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles's dart board.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Average, Usa

  7 Copy quote

• He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Love, Math, Reality

  15 Copy quote

• Getting plenty of sleep is always great. It really is. I have a girlfriend who's sending me a slant board.

  Bernadette Peters

  Girlfriend, Sleep, Plenty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Strength, Strong, Business

  11 Copy quote

• Hey, any time you're throwing bodies over board it is to save yourself.

  Lawrence Tierney

  Sea, Hey, Body

  7 Copy quote

• I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.

  Tanith Lee

  Mary

  7 Copy quote

• Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing.

  Morris Chestnut

  Opportunity, White, Black

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.

  Walter Kohn

  Important, Population, World

  Walter Kohn, Matthias Scheffler, Peter Weinberger (2003). “Walter Kohn: Personal Stories and Anecdotes Told by Friends and Collaborators”, p.295, Springer Science & Business Media

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Across the board, people are looking at the problem, but simply not changing anywhere near fast enough.

  Trevor Phillips

  People, Problem, Enough

  7 Copy quote

• You have to start over. That's what they say. But life is not a board game, and losing a loved one is never really "starting over." More like "continuing without.

  Mitch Albom

  Losing A Loved One, Games, Starting Over

  Mitch Albom (2013). “The First Phone Call From Heaven: A Novel”, p.11, Harper Collins

  59 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am fooling only myself when I say that my mother exists now only in the photographs on my bulletin board or in the outline of my hand or in the armful of memories I still hold tight. She lives on beneath everything I do. Her presence influenced who I was and her absence influences who I am. Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide.

  Hope Edelman

  Family, Mom, Photography

  63 Copy quote

• There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate closely to its function. The abutment of the edge of one board to an adjoining board can mean the success or failure of a piece. () Gradually a form evolves, much as nature produces the tree in the first place. The object created can live forever. The tree lives on in its new form. The object cannot follow a transitory “style”, here for a moment, discarded the next. Its appeal must be universal. Cordial and receptive, it should invite a meeting with man

  George Nakashima

  Mean, Men, Tree

  67 Copy quote