Quotes of: Draft Keyword

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

Dean Koontz

Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.

Bob Gunton

The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.

Jennifer Egan

Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.

Jack Youngblood

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.

Andy Rooney

Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them... unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here.

Gordon Sinclair

You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done.

Thomas Lennon

It was a dream come true to be drafted by a pro team and have the opportunity to play.

Jamie Moyer

The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people.

James Rado

The first draft often is really fast, and I'd be terribly ashamed if anybody ever saw it.

Jonathan Dee

Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.

Nicholas Sparks

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

T. E. Lawrence

Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted.

Carol Bellamy

On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a drafting table that I have worked on ever since.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

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

P. J. O'Rourke

I still say one of the greatest moments in my whole NBA career was getting drafted.

Kevin Johnson

That freedom of writing you don't get in other formats, I'd rather leave it to someone else to deal with the headache of drafting my book into a screenplay.

Ashwin Sanghi

Second, there were the discussions and drafts leading up to the White Paper on Employment Policy of 1944 in which the UK government accepted the maintenance of employment as an obligation of governmental policy.

James Meade

In the span of three years, the Iraqi people participated in three elections, drafted a constitution, and elected a new government. While more work remains, this is remarkable progress.

Tim Murphy

We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years.

Steven Tyler

In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives.

Paul Reiser