Top 812 Draft Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Unfortunately, most news writing is the product of a first draft culture.

I wrote the first draft of 'Plan B' the summer after I turned 21.

LeBron had a pretty bad draft suit.

When I did the zero draft for Six of Crows,' it was a very organic process.

Do I consider the 2003 Draft class the best ever? Yes, absolutely!

Draft day is just another chapter in my life.

In Hollywood, writers are considered only the first draft of human beings.

Don't look back until you've written an entire draft.

Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.

You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out.

I'm not a believer in bringing back the draft. But I am a huge proponent of national service.

Everything I write, I've written the first draft in Austria.

In the draft plan, we're looking at recycling 20 percent of our garbage by 2010.

I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.

I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.

You want to be in the first round. That's the dream. That's what you see on draft night.

The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution.

'City of Bohane' has been optioned for film, and I've finished a first draft of the script.

I'll play for whoever drafts me. I'm just not going to be presumptuous about what they want to do. It's the draft.

I found draft resistors very conscientious, reasonable, and not fanatics.

Need always plays into your decisions more as the draft unfolds.

I do think if we had a draft again, the United States would embark on fewer wars.

The baseball draft is very different from the NBA or the NFL.

A lot of teams made a mistake in the NBA draft.

A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.

You've got to make the teams want to draft you.

If you're tanking to get a higher draft pick, you really shouldn't be playing hockey.

I write with pen and paper, my first draft, on legal pads.

In a first draft, I concentrate on moving forward and trying not to panic.

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

To add a player in the draft is something we always look forward to.

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

You have to draft a catcher, because if you don't have one, the pitch will roll all the way back to the screen.

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

When you get a draft pick right, you should be given full credit.

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

I work sometimes from outlines, which are immediately abandoned. Sometimes, when I'm trying to find the characters, I'll sketch things out a bit. Sometimes, outlines help me aim a little bit, but I tend to find it's usually much more interesting, especially with the first draft, to spew it onto the page. I used to get very nervous that, if I write this first rough draft and I die that night, whoever finds it might think that I thought it was good. For me, it's much more important to get some general shape onto the page and later take all the time I need to refine it, fix it, and rewrite it.

When I'm writing a first draft of a script, I can disappear into that for two, three months exclusively.

Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.

I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.

When I graduated from Utah, I was headed into the biggest job interview of my life, the NFL Draft.

I had that mindset that I feel that I am the best prospect in the draft, but everything happens for a reason.

If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.

When they tried to draft me, I earned a college degree.

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

News is only the first rough draft of history.

You want to draft a guy that has production and gets the ball in the end zone.

Everything with the draft process, from the combine to visits to pro days, that's great but it's not football.

I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow.

The first draft is usually junk. You have to work on it seven to eight times.

In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary.

People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft.

I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft.

With anybody we're looking to draft, we do an extensive amount of work on their background, history and all that.

Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath.

I'm happy to be here at the NBA Draft no matter where I go.

I don't want to be that guy that thinks he is a high draft pick and that he has it all.

The draft not being exceptionally deep, you basically take the best player available.

Prior to the draft I met with the Vikings about four or five times.

We had the Vietnam War in the '60s, and there was a draft. The students didn't believe in it, and it unified them.