Boards Quotes

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.

We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one by one into the grave of nothingness.

It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't.

Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and then shape the wood to realize its true potential.

It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.

I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

I thought we were aggressive across the board defensively, and you could just see it grow. As the game went along, you could see the confidence grow. It showed in the fourth quarter.

I will have no locked cupboards in my life.

Well, back to the old drawing board.

I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.

I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors.

One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard to get and just aren't available for regular people like you and I.

Let's jump on board, and cut them to pieces.

I'm never surprised by the insensitivity of 'The New York Times' editorial board.

I'm kind of a one-note at a time, one finger keyboard player.

It is a sobering fact that the prominence of central banks in this century has coincided with a general tendency towards more inflation, not less. [I]f the overriding objective is price stability, we did better with the nineteenth-century gold standard and passive central banks, with currency boards, or even with 'free banking.' The truly unique power of a central bank, after all, is the power to create money, and ultimately the power to create is the power to destroy.

Maybe life is a board game, but I never get to roll the dice.

Unlike any other player on the board, the press has no oversight, no mandate, few penalties, and even fewer consequences. Because there are not enough reporters on the ground, too many bureaus have outsourced both their reporting and standards to third party stringers whose spectacular videos of explosions and inflated body counts have shown up on both jihadist recruiting sites and American television screens, simultaneously.

I fundamentally believe in term limits, for Congress, presidents, and board members.

I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.

Occasionally you get that one person that says "I really like that one part of this joke" and you go, "Oh thank you that's my favorite part too." But no, in order for it to be authentic hopefully you have jokes that everyone can just get on board with and then you have a few things for yourself.

There is no ICC anymore. It is just BCCI. It is not International Cricket Council it is International Crime Council. If you take all the cricket board Presidents am sure they are all puppets. ICC is the toothless tiger.

Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect of either.

Haters...are all failures. It's 100% across the board. No one who is truly brilliant at anything is a hater.