Malapropros Quotes & Sayings

With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business is always better done by few than by many. I think also the working few ought not to be embaras[s]ed by the idle many and further I think the idle many ought not to be honoured by association with the working few.-I do not think that my patience has ever come nearer to an end than when compelled to hear ... long rambling malapropros enquiries of members who still have nothing in consequence to propose that shall advance the business. — Michael Faraday

STEP 1. Identify the system's bottlenecks. (After all it wasn't too difficult to identify the oven and the NCX10 as the bottlenecks of the plant.)
STEP 2. Decide how to exploit the bottlenecks. (That was fun. Realizing that those machines should not take a lunch break, etc.)
STEP 3. Subordinate everything else to the above decision. (Making sure that everything marches to the tune of the constraints. The red and green tags.)
STEP 4. Elevate the system's bottlenecks. (Bringing back the old Zmegma, switching back to old, less "effective" routings. . . .)
STEP 5. If, in a previous step, a bottleneck has been broken go back to step 1. — Eliyahu M. Goldratt

The sound of words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speaker hears some of the sound from the inside. — David Levithan

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change. — James Frey

My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age. — S.T. Joshi

Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America. — Woodrow Wilson

was a life that wore you out, used up every ounce of your energy, and kept you profoundly, unquestionably happy. In the literal sense of the word, it stupefied you. The long days in the fields, the coarse food and insufficient sleep, the smell of hops and wood smoke, lulled you into an almost beastlike heaviness. Your wits seemed to thicken, just as your skin did, in the rain and sunshine and perpetual fresh air. — George Orwell

I'd like to do more stuff with less sarcasm. — Sara Gilbert

GET THAT CRAZY-ASS MULLET OFF YA SKULL — Wesley Willis

Jesus was much more interested in the quality of the people's response to him than in the quantity of the crowd. — Timothy Keller

San Antonio is an ideal market for Major League Soccer. It's time that we put our best foot forward. — Julian Castro

The exuberance of democracy leads to undisciplined and disorderly conditions which are inimical to development. — Lee Kuan Yew

31 g Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32 h Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, i forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. — Anonymous

I cannot be understood in three minutes. — Sidney Poitier