Minuted Quotes & Sayings

In the span of a few minuted, he'd gone from his usual Mr. Cranky-Pants to Sir Kissy Smiles-A-Lot. — Julie Ann Walker

I travel a lot, but I don't come away with new inspiration. — Edward Ruscha

The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. — C.S. Lewis

Mr. Franklin kept a horn book always in his pocket in which he minuted all his invitations to dinner, and Mr. Lee said it was the only thing in which he was punctual — Walter Isaacson

There's something about imminent death that makes all the threads weave into a picture ... — Lauren DeStefano

Al Gore clearly has the vision ... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush. — Bill Bradley

I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern."
[From the Preface] — C.S. Lewis

The peculiarity of ill temper is that it is the vice of the virtuous. — Henry Drummond

Now if I lived in my land, which I do, if I lived in Iceland, if I lived in Greensland I'd still have Chinese children, but out of my ears my little grey baby hears. — Devendra Banhart

Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success. — Ninette De Valois

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently. — Warren Buffett

Everybody has someone in their life that has breast cancer. It touches femininity, motherhood and sexuality and as Barbara Brenner says in the film, "you get to say breast out loud in public." Big corporations know this and market in a particular way knowing that women make most of the buying decisions in a household. — Leanne Pooley

People in the media, it makes their day when someone they say is a five-star artist goes platinum. — Soulja Boy

I felt uneasy about making the rapid decisions I have always made, and wondered whether every decision should be formally ratified and minuted at a board meeting. — Richard Branson