Convenient Quotes · Page 9

Well, isn't that convenient for you... and the clock! -White Goodman

— Dodgeball

The inbox is nothing but a convenient organizing system for other people's agendas.

— Brendon Burchard

Finding a convenient exercise routine is the key, because you're much more likely to stick with it.

— Denise Austin

I've been watching so many movies and they all have to do with the DVDs. It's just so much more convenient.

— Shiri Appleby

I can honestly say I've never chosen a film because where it's shot is convenient.

— Clive Owen

The best soulwinners are those who go when it is convenient and then go when it is not convenient.

— John R. Rice

I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.

— Henry David Thoreau

I got a plan to get out of here, I've been working at a convenient store.

— Tracy Chapman

The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas.

— Joseph Conrad

Specific units - such as memes are intended to represent have meaning when there is essential discontinuity between categories. Such convenient discontinuities…

— Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

I just prefer wood. I like the smell. To me, it's a lot cheaper than electric or gas, and it's more convenient.…

— Junior Johnson

Nothing can justify crimes such as those of September 11, but we can think of the United States as an innocent victim…

— Noam Chomsky

Historically, Islam was hijacked about 20 or 30 years after the Prophet and interpreted in such a way that the ruler has…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Given cognitive vulnerabilities, it would be convenient to have an arrangement whereby reality could tell us off; and that is precisely what…

— Rebecca Goldstein

In our instant pudding world, everything is sweet, smooth, very convenient and fast. There are lots of assorted flavors, but they're all…

— Robert Bateman

I think paranoia goes from generation to generation. It's convenient to imagine that there's a few people controlling everything, that way it's…

— Robert Downey, Jr

One of the most important revelations about a period comes in its theory of language, for that informs us whether language is…

— Richard M. Weaver

I would not like to live in the past because you don't get anesthetic when you go to the dentist. You don't…

— Woody Allen

I use African-American, because I teach African Studies as well as African-American Studies, so it's easy, neat and convenient. But sometimes, when…

— Henry Louis Gates

The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

the writer must resist this temptation [to quote] and do his best with his own tools. It would be most convenient for…

— Ethel Smyth

To get anything done, you used to have to brush past, or at least lay eyes on, someone whose reality was totally…

— Miranda July

Fishes do not roar; they cannot express any sound of suffering; and therefore the angler chooses to think they do not suffer,…

— Leigh Hunt

For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. ... he would cut a…

— Francis Darwin

So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a…

— Henri Poincare

If you're interested, you will do what is convenient; if you're committed, you'll do whatever it takes.

— John Assaraf

The reality is that the NBA was in worse shape in the '70s and early '80s. People have convenient memories.

— Mike Thibault

Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives.

— Ron Fournier

The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.

— Anthony Braxton

I believe that I am some sort of fiction writer and I'm using myself in my work because I'm the person I'm…

— Laurel Nakadate

The person who does only what he must when he is in the mood or when it's convenient isn't going to be…

— John C. Maxwell

Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.

— Langston Hughes

I wouldn't dare to speculate as to Cleopatra's falling in love. Her relationships are too convenient for that.

— Stacy Schiff

Recapitulation provided a convenient focus for the persuasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I…

— Kiki Smith

It comes in handy in situations like that. People always expect you to be riding around in stretch limousines all the time,…

— Paul McCartney

“Innovation is the art of creating a better, a more convenient and more comfortable way for the world to pass. Leaders leave…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Its tempting to work more than 60 hours a week and sacrifice sleep, not move, and eat bad foods as they are…

— Tom Rath

Undoubtedly, for Mexico, it is very important for the United States to do well and for the United States to have a…

— Enrique Pena Nieto