Items Quotes - Page 14

• Why is the Keystone Pipeline the very first, #1 item on the Republicans' agenda? We know that this pipeline runs terrible environmental risks and it just won't do much for the American people. So why is this bill so urgent? Money and power.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Running, People, Risk

  FaceBook post by Elizabeth Warren from Jan 12, 2015

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry.

  Frank Capra

  World, Oscars, Public Relations

  Frank Capra (1971). “The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ideas come from the Earth. They come from every human experience that you’ve either witnessed or have heard about, translated into your brain in your own sense of dialogue, in your own language form. Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized. Ideas are probably in the air, like little tiny items of ozone.

  Rod Serling

  Ozone, Air, Ideas

  17 Copy quote

• How I wish we could all see the cost of our choices as clearly as a price tag on items in a store. If I know how much something is going to cost me, I make much wiser choices. But we have an enemy who schemes against us to keep the cost of dumb decisions concealed until it's too late.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Price Tag, Decision, Choices

  7 Copy quote

• One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act.

  Roger Wicker

  Business, Usa, America

  16 Copy quote

• Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Agriculture, Tree, Littles

  6 Copy quote

• I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Technology, Thinking, Might

  16 Copy quote

• Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever I was doing.

  Chuck Yeager

  Fun, People, Priorities

  Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam

  81 Copy quote

  Show source

• Why do we send valuable items like aluminium and food waste to landfill when we can turn them into new cans and renewable energy? Why use more resources than we need to in manufacturing? We must now work together to build a zero waste nation - where we reduce the resources we use, reuse and recycle all that we can and only landfill things that have absolutely no other use

  Hilary Benn

  Zero, Working Together, Energy

  23 Copy quote

• It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition.

  Haruki Murakami

  Morning, Paragraph

  "A Wild Sheep Chase". Book by Haruki Murakami, October 13, 1982.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Loss, Risk, May

  W. Edwards Deming, Joyce (edited by) Orsini (2012). “The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality”, McGraw Hill Professional

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• A captivating moment was when I realized that people, including myself, were not saying, “I just bought an item on eBay.” They were saying, “I just won an item on eBay.” It was the thrill of the hunt. I bought a car on eBay.

  Mary Meeker

  Ebay, People, Car

  "The Indomitable Mary Meeker". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. September 21, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given trouble; they exist for it, they are geared to it. For the location of a mislaid volume, an uncatalogued item, your good librarian has a ferret’s nose. Give her a scent and she jumps the leash, her eye bright with battle.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Mistake, Eye, Giving

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1959). “Adventures of a Biographer”, Boston : Little, Brown

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• With real wages still falling for many, people are increasingly being forced to use their credit cards, their dwindling savings, or take out payday or doorstep loans if they need to buy anything beyond the most everyday of items.

  Frances O'Grady

  Real, Fall, People

  "Cost of living crisis: We are £40 a week worse off under the Tories" by Stephen Hayward, www.mirror.co.uk. March 22, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Aggravation, Cost, Degradation

  9 Copy quote

• Many of the delicious soups you eat in French homes and little restaurants are made just this way, with a leek-and-potato base to which leftover vegetables or sauces and a few fresh items are added.

  Julia Child

  Home, Vegetables, Soup

  Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck (2011). “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, p.98, Knopf

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The NRA was one of the items that we pointed to when we added money to the labor, health and Education appropriations bill by reducing the size of the tax cut.

  Dave Obey

  Cutting, Bills, Size

  8 Copy quote

• I had such a hard time finding great organic and non-toxic items for my daughter.

  Soleil Moon Frye

  Daughter, Mother, Hard Times

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere satisfaction of selfish desire does not reach the top notch.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Success, Selfish, Community

  Robert Baden-Powell (2013). “Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

  92 Copy quote

  Show source

• As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.

  Rachel Zoe

  Fashion, Forever, Dimes

  "Rachel Zoe's Best Fashion Moments" by Victoria Dawson Hoff, www.elle.com. September 1, 2013.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Rights, People, Trying

  4 Copy quote

• The coolest gift I've ever gotten from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it had a picture of General Wade Hampton, who my oldest son is named after. It's a collector's item and came with a case and a stand and everything.

  Josh Turner

  Son, Knives, Fans

  7 Copy quote

• I am happy to receive any items of jewelry.

  Katie Price

  Jewelry

  16 Copy quote

• I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Character, Past, World

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.480, Vintage

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• We're electrical items and when we die the electricity goes somewhere else. When we die our energy goes into the galaxy.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Somewhere Else, Energy, Electricity

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2009.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source