Draft Quotes

289 quotes by 261 authors

I have no preferred team, but everyone wants to go No. 1 in the draft. Even the guy who gets picked last in the draft… — Robert Griffin III
News is the first draft of history. — Ben Bradlee
The budget acknowledges the importance of maintaining our ports and waterways to encourage commercial deep-draft navigation and economic competitiveness. — Jeff Landry
Writing is so hard.... The first draft writing is so hard that sometimes in the beginning, before the work itself takes over, carrying you on… — Sophy Burnham
As businessmen caught a glimpse of the potentialities inherent in endlessly expanding the wants of people under consumerism, forced draft or otherwise, many began to… — Vance Packard
In April, I asked my staff to determine if Senate rules and relevant laws would allow me to direct the trustees to sell any remaining… — Bill Frist
I tend to write things seven times before I show them to my editor. I write them seven times, then I take them on tour,… — David Sedaris
You're responsible for your own character to a degree, because when it comes to the final draft of the script, you might say, "Well, I… — Charlie Day
Snooki is a bestselling author? Huh? What? I don't know if I should dumb down my book, shoot myself or find a publisher who'll settle… — Geoffrey Hill
I think I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scene in final draft and just… — Brit Marling
The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans'… — Al Franken
I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share. — R. Lee Ermey
Thank you... fantasy football draft, for letting me know that even in my fantasies, I am bad at sports. — Jimmy Fallon
The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to… — Ken Follett
I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one. — Dag Hammarskjold
I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981.… — Bo Jackson
Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time… — Elfriede Jelinek
The draft is a crapshoot, so I've been very fortunate to be drafted by the Yankees, and to have spent my whole career here. — Derek Jeter
I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing. — Dean Koontz
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in… — T.E. Lawrence

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