Top 567 Reports Quotes & Sayings

I have had to put in police reports that I have been stalked and followed.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

The trouble with dead people often begins with something called the Death Master File, which is kept by the Social Security Administration. Every day, new reports are added, provided by relatives, funeral homes, and the state agencies that issue official death certificates. The list contains 90 million reports.

People see whatever the media first reports.

Written reports stifle creativity.

Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle... and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable - those billionaire reports are a joke.

I look at scouting reports, but don't let them dictate what I'm throwing.

The Inspector General issued six reviews and reports on actions taken based on provisions of the act. In those six reports, the IG found that not one violation of an individual's civil liberties - a total of zero - had taken place since the act was instituted.

Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive!

I've been interested in the reports on Rojava. It seems clear that there are positive developments.

When I get my weekly screen-time reports from Apple, it's disturbing.

U.S. News Organizations observe the anniversary of September 11 with investigations about the nation's continuing vulnerability to terrorism. First, the New York Daily News reports that two of its reporters carried box cutters, razor kinves, and pepper spray on fourteen commerical flights without getting caught. Then ABC News reports that it smuggled fifteen pounds of uranium into New York City. Then Fox News reports that it flew Osama bin Laden to Washington, D.C., and videotaped him touring the White House.

I wish I was having as much fun as the press reports said I had.

Initial reports are encouraging. In the end of the day, it's going to be deeds, not words, that matter.

In sixth grade, I made up books to give book reports on.

If we consider the actual basis of this information [i.e., intelligence], how unreliable and transient it is, we soon realize that war is a flimsy structure that can easily collapse and bury us in its ruins. ... Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. This is true of all intelligence but even more so in the heat of battle, where such reports tend to contradict and cancel each other out. In short, most intelligence is false, and the effect of fear is to multiply lies and inaccuracies.

These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.

I am very unhappy about reports that I was seeking asylum in Manila.

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

If you're sick, first you have to associate your sickness with a food. Then you have to report it to your doctor. Then the doctor reports it to some state authority. The state authority reports it to the federal authority. By the time all that happens, two weeks have gone by.

As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.

Reports have indicated that several border agents have contracted diseases through contact with the unaccompanied minors.

He read reports, examined evidence, and poured more reports up the chain than the Pentagon could read. Nothing short of a human sieve. But in the end he was just one small piece on this game board called war. End of story

[Operation] Rockingham was spinning reports and emphasizing reports that showed non-compliance (by Iraq with UN inspections) and quashing those which showed compliance. It was cherry-picking intelligence.

After a lifetime in this subject, I have concluded that the extraterrestrial hypothesis is one reasonable tentative approach to putting the best-documented and most puzzling UFO reports into a scientifically defensible conceptual framework. By such reports I mean those with credible multiple or independent witnesses, instrumented observations, and physical evidence.

We are making progress militarily, there is no doubt about that. You've seen the reports from Misrata, although reports of the Gaddafi forces completely pulling out of Misrata seem to be exaggerated.

To me the cynics are the ones in the boardrooms with the reports from the focus groups.

Of course, we knew that the official reports were sketchy, if not falsified. But, in terms of information theory, this is precisely where the problem lay: How were we to reconstruct reality from incomplete or false reports? It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false. On the contrary, most news is completely correct, albeit tendentiously slanded; it is just that certain information is suppressed. One can adjust for the political slanting of the news, but there is virtually no way to fill in the omissions.

When Robert Bly visited Interlochen Center for the Arts so many years ago, he spoke to the creative writing majors and said, "The eye reports to the brain, but the ear reports to the heart." Perhaps this is the thing that musicians can do that writers can't ever, quite, but it is what I aspire to, that sense/power of the auditory, and the belief that to hear more clearly is to see more clearly, and that to see more clearly is to feel more deeply.

I am very happy that all my films are getting positive reports in both Telugu and Tamil.

Reports of a hurricane are unfounded.

Nothing succeeds like reports of success.

The reports on human progress are beginning to come in, and some are a little discouraging.

When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.

Yet we still see continuous reports of bugs.

There are hundreds of credible reports, many with multiple witnesses, of humanoids in association with landed spacecraft.

In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.

Conscience: A small, still voice that makes minority reports.

More men have been defeated by reports than all the steel of all the swords in history.

Reports you read in the paper, you never know how true they are.

I am not with any political party. I laugh at media reports of my entering politics.

I am discounting the reports of UFOs. Why would they appear only to cranks and weirdos?

And here at our Anglican Consultative Council, we have many reports of growth and great encouragement.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) new Summary for Policymakers is a political document that downplays assessments of uncertainty from the scientific reports. It omits much contrary evidence. In several cases, it even disagrees with the reports on which it is based.

Leadership is an individual sport, one that has to be fine-tuned to each of the people that reports to you. Leaders also need to provide the direction, energy, encouragement and inspiration for each person who reports directly to the leader as well as for the overall organization.

I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is the main source of material.

When a person reports a feeling, it's a comment on our relationship.

The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

I dont make it a practice to respond to reports in the social media but occasionally it is necessary.

Hundreds of thousands of UFO sightings have been made by persons in all walks of life, in all parts of the world. Tens of thousands of UFO reports have been made to governmental and private agencies in the past 55 years. Thousands of these reports have withstood careful scrutiny and appear to represent real objects having a novel nature.

Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated.

I feel like people have more in common than the news reports.

Rumor ... often is fathered and mothered by false reports.

Those who commit the murders write the reports.

I think of myself as a reporter. I just rhyme my reports and give them a beat.

Whenever I read statistical reports, I try to imagine my unfortunate contemporary, the Average Person, who, according to these reports, has 0.66 children, 0.032 cars, and 0.046 TVs.

The type of UFO reports that are most intriguing are close-range sightings of machinelike objects of unconventional nature and unconventional performance characteristics, seen at low altitudes, and sometimes even on the ground. The general public is entirely unaware of the large number of such reports that are coming from credible witnesses... When one starts searching for such cases, their number are quite astonishing.

Without subtle ingenuity of mind, one cannot make certain of the truth of their reports.

I was a kid in the third grade ... saw a dummy in the toy store. In the '60s and '70s there were a lot of those vinyl ventriloquism dummies - just about every toy store had one. Everyone close to my age that I've talked to, especially guys for some reason, tell me that they had one too, but they said they never could do it. So many people come up to me and say that. It was just something that I thought was cool. I started doing book reports with it - I developed the skill. I easily got A's on all my reports. It was just something that a little kid grasped on to - so I stuck with it.

The best way to supervise your men is from their reports that they make out.