Directory Quotes

19 quotes by 18 authors

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded… — Quentin Crisp
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling. — Donald Sinden
If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft.) Instead, read… — George Will
Success is when your name is in everything but the telephone directory. — Sam Ewing
An American critic wrote that she would rather be forced to read the New York telephone directory three times than watch the film A Zed… — Peter Greenaway
Why can't you summon a command line and search your real-world home for 'Honda car keys,' and specify rooms in your house to search instead… — Richard Dooling
In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers. — James Boswell
If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any… — John McAfee
Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public… — John McAfee
[Reviewing the New York City Telephone Directory] But it is the opinion of the present reviewer that the weakness of plot is due to the… — Robert Benchley
What I have done up to this is nothing. I am only at the beginning of the course I must run. Do you imagine that… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory. — Joan Rivers
If youâ€™re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesnâ€™t illuminate. — Werner Herzog
I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA. — Martin Fry
When Facebook first started, and it was just a social directory for undergrads at Harvard, it would have seemed like such a bad startup idea,… — Paul Graham
If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for… — George F Will
Dunster is intense. Not only is there no public directory but there's no directory at all. You have to do searches and your search returns… — Mark Zuckerberg
One needs but to study the directory of directories of the great business concerns of the country to determine the extent to which this combination… — Robert La Folette

Who Wrote These Directory Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 19 Directory Quotes as follows: