Top 812 Draft Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
I received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three months before going into the Army in September to think about it.
I was pretty darn lucky to be selected by the Steelers. A round earlier or later in the draft and I might have been with a team that didn't make it to the Super Bowl.
Tell a thousand people to draft a letter, let them debate every phrase, and see how long it takes and what you get.
When I'm writing, I don't put faces on the characters. When I finish the first draft of the script, I start visualizing, and sometimes then I think about one actor.
I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a peanut with your nose across a very dirty floor.
In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything in the prose that's prospectively boring to strangers.
I have plans of becoming a director soon. I just finished my script. I don't know when I'll direct the film. It is ready and has reached its third draft.
I wasn't worried about my draft position. I was just taking it easy come, easy go.
As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body
If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.
Once my junior year finished at Florida State, I won the Rhodes Scholarship and I was also projected as a second-round draft pick.
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
Any team that wants to draft me is a blessing to me.
The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.
To my parents and all the people who reassured me that leaving high school and going into the draft was the right thing to do, I am forever thankful.
I have always had great respect for those who served. In my time, we had the draft.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
money ... is only important when you have none; and though it may not be everything, it goes a very long way towards blocking up the winter draft of age.
It's like standing on the edge of a cliff. This is especially true of the first draft. Every day you're making up the earth you're going to stand on.
Going to the draft, I took two years off to serve my church and my God. There were no secrets, there was no deception; I didn't ask anyone to be drafted No. 2.
I remember during the draft I went to see a lot of organizations. But after you play in New York, you don't really want to go anywhere else. The people around are so cool.
I love CeeDee Lamb coming out of the draft. I just really did. And Amari Cooper is one of the best one-on-one route runners.
Whenever you're coming out in the same draft class with anybody, you're going to be compared to them, but I'm not super worried about that.
Every creative person can draft into service those around them who exhibit the right mixture of intelligence, insight, and grace.
When the draft comes and goes, there's a certain set of players you acquire and there's a whole bunch of others you had interest in acquiring. That doesn't die.
I'll play a character who is getting married to a woman to avoid the draft. Ultimately they fall in love with each other, but at first it's only out of practicality.
Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.
The budget acknowledges the importance of maintaining our ports and waterways to encourage commercial deep-draft navigation and economic competitiveness.
I have always been thankful that so many of our country's greatest leaders and statesmen were able to be on this earth at the same time and place to draft the Constitution.
At sixteen I get drafted. When I read the draft notice, I cry. Not because I'm a coward - I'm not afraid of anyone. But I don't want to kill or be killed.
I wrote the first draft of 'Madame Bovary' without studying the previous translations, although I gathered them and took the occasional peek.
The first two chapters of any first draft generally need to be cut.
Sometimes you can line up with a quarterback after getting traded or going to a new team, whether it's the draft or whatever, and it not go smooth.
You want to be able to say anything when you do your first draft, because some of that goofy stuff that you think has nothing to do with it is probably where the mother lode is.
What I should have done, if I was going to be a GM, was gone on the road, gotten into the personnel a lot better. To do that job, you've gotta do it all year. I just did it at draft time.
When I volunteered for the draft as a 20-year-old, mischievous guy at the height of the Vietnam War, most thought I was destined to pass from this earth early!
A lot of young guys coming up in this league, they're given the spotlight right away, depending on draft stature or whatever the case may be.
I was called fool's gold. That's what I was called in the draft combine. That's how I remember it. I took it personal.
New Yorkers should know that no one in the Administration, at the Department of Defense, or at the Selective Service System is advocating the reinstatement of the mandatory draft in any form.
The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.
I have always been thankful that so many of our countrys greatest leaders and statesmen were able to be on this earth at the same time and place to draft the Constitution.
For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to set yourself spinning?
The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season.
If you look historically at the draft at quarterbacks in the top 10, about half of them flame out very quickly.
I think the biggest thing, even from Day 1 after the draft, was coach DeFillipo being very detailed with everything.
We have written a draft of the script in every calendar year since [2010]. Quite honestly. Our Deadpool file is... full, to capacity.
Draft day is a hectic day, especially for draftees and, more or less, for management.
Unfortunately, when we had a No. 1 draft pick, there wasn't an Andrew Luck out there. A lot of that's pure luck.
A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever.
I always wanted to be the No. 1 pick, but come draft night anything can happen - trades, or anything like that.
So, as much as it is about this continuing war, the reinstated draft, and their individual views, it's really sort of a deeply human tale, and a character study as well.
The draft is like game day on a 3rd-and-5. You have a lot of plays you can choose from. You go with your gut, pick and play and hope it works.
My parents getting divorced gave me the opportunity to play for my granddad and to meet my wife. I fell in the draft but I ended up in Dallas.
I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
I have just finished my novel (rough draft). It is to be called 'Anacoluthon.' This will make the public think it is an historical romance.
You've developed the strength of a draft horse while holding onto the delicacy of a daffodil ... you are the mother, advocate and protector of a child with a disability.
I read and write but my ideas don't go beyond the first draft. When they will, I will make it into a film probably.
Lawmakers should focus on building strong coalitions, including across the aisle, as they create, draft, and develop effective legislation.
I mean the NHL never called me and wanted me to show up at the draft.
