Draft Quotes - page 2

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. I turned them down to go to college. (Bo Jackson)
I have always been thankful that so many of our country's greatest leaders and statesmen were able to be on this earth at the same time and place to draft the Constitution. View quote
Bob Latta
I was terrified of the Vietnam War when I was 13. I thought I was going. The draft was such an ominous thing, I felt as if it was going to trickle down to me. View quote
Dylan McDermott
Writing, yeah. Me and my friend Scott Bloom just finished the first rough draft of a script. It's taken us three years to do, but we finally got a first draft. And we'll see whatever happens with that. View quote
Ethan Suplee
A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know. View quote
George Wald
Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation. View quote
Gary Miller
I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way that is not linear or chronological at all, even with the short story. I will just be writing bits and pieces, and then when I have all the pieces on the table, that for me is when it feels like the real work begins. View quote
Jill McCorkle
I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility. View quote
Jim Lehrer
I read every draft of every episode of every series produced at FX. View quote
John Landgraf
I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts. View quote
Marilyn Hacker
The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution. (Matt Lauer)
My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar. View quote
Maya Lin
I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam. View quote
Parker Stevenson
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. View quote
R. Lee Ermey
I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven. View quote
Stephen Collins
I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us. View quote
Sargent Shriver
You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done. View quote
Thomas Lennon
Three days after Richard Henry Lee introduced the Resolution of Independence, it was voted to appoint a committee to "prepare a declaration to the effect of the said first resolution." The committee, appointed on the following day, consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. On the 28 of June, the committee reported to Congress the draft of a declaration which, with modifications, was finally agreed to by Congress on the 4 of July. This is the document which is popularly known as the Declaration of Independence. View quote
Carl L. Becker
In order to be able to meet a general combination of the banks against us in a critical emergency, could we not make a beginning towards an independent use of our own money, towards holding our own bank in all the deposits where it is received, and letting the treasurer give his draft or note for payment at any particular place, which, in a well-conducted government, ought to have as much credit as any private draft or bank note or bill, and would give us the same facilities which we derive from the banks? View quote
Thomas Jefferson
I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
I'm not a great believer in writing courses, though it must be said I've never been in one. It probably depends on what kind of writer you are. I'm very un-analytical about what I do. I don't plan much for the first draft. I try to let characters come out by themselves, rather than designing them. But other writers work differently, and for them the teaching process - which at least forces you to consider what you're doing, and why - may be very helpful. At the very least a creative writing course mandates someone to spend a period of their life just writing, which can be hard to do otherwise. But beware of thinking too much about what you do. (Michael Marshall Smith)
The 1960s and early 1970s were a time of social revolution in America, and President Nixon, by ending the draft and ending the Vietnam war, presided over what one columnist called the "cooling of America.” But if Hillary Clinton takes power, and continues America on her present course, which a majority of Americans rejected in the primaries, there is going to a bad moon rising. View quote
Pat Buchanan
It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain. View quote
Amos Oz
[The draft] should be called slavery, involuntary servitude. Howard Phillips: It violates the 13th amendment, which prohibits involuntary servitude. Ron Paul: Yeah, and the argument that I've always resented the most was, if you're 18 year old you owe it to your country. I've always wondered why the guy who's 58 and had a million bucks and hadn't served, why doesn't he owe more to this country, maybe he should be on the frontline. 18 year old didn't get anything yet, and he has to go and risk his life. View quote
Ron Paul
We will feel the draft blowing through the cracks in the structure of causality. View quote
Cees Nooteboom