Draft Quotes - page 3

Boccioni, Russolo and I all met in the Porta Vittoria café [in Milan, Italy], close to where we all lived, and we enthusiastically outlined a draft of our appeal [the Manifesto of Futurist Painters, late February, 1910]. The final version was somewhat laborious; we worked on it all day, all three of us and finished it that evening with Marinetti and the help of Decio Cinti, the group's secretary. (Carlo Carrà)
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The privatization law draft was recently released and I believe that very soon we will start applying it, of course taking into consideration the provisions of UNMIK (United Nations Mission in Kosovo). View quote
Ibrahim Rugova
Unlike members of Congress, Big Business knew what the WTO agreements contained. That's because corporate lobbyists helped draft them. View quote
Ralph Nader
We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years. View quote
Steven Tyler
I made it very plain: We will not have an all-volunteer army. [Crowd boos] Let me restate that. We will not have a draft. View quote
George W. Bush
I hear there's rumors on the internets [pause] that we're going to have a draft. We're not going to have a draft, period. View quote
George W. Bush
We wrote the first draft in about nine weeks. Nine weeks of gloriously long phone calls, in which we would read each other what we'd written, and try to make the other one laugh. We'd plot, delightedly, and then hurry off the phone, determined to get to the next good bit before the other one could. We'd rewrite each other, footnote each other's pages, sometimes even footnote each other's footnotes. View quote
Neil Gaiman
I view it as a thoroughly bad peace – impolitic and impracticable in the case of Germany, absolutely ludicrous in the case of German Austria. Indeed I have not been able to read the comments of the Austrian delegates on our draft terms without deep emotion. I have fought this Peace from the inside with all my power, and have no doubt been able in the end to secure some small openings of hope for the future. View quote
Jan Smuts
At the vital moment there seems to be a failure of leadership, and also a failure of the general human spirit among the peoples. I hope I am wrong, but I have a sense of impending calamity, a fear that the war was only the vanguard of calamity ... I cannot look at that draft treaty without a sense of grief and shame. View quote
Jan Smuts
While an artist is labouring at his work of art, nothing prevents it from surpassing Dream. As soon as it is finished, the work must be hidden or destroyed, or better still, thrown as a prey to the brutal crowd which will magnify it by killing it with its scorn, and thereby intensify its absurd uselessness. We thus condemn art as finished work, we conceive of it only in its movement, in the state of effort and draft. Art is simply a possibility for absolute conquest. For the artist, to complete is to die. (Filippo Tommaso Marinetti)
I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down. View quote
Nora Roberts
I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft. View quote
Nora Roberts
[Schultz specifically refers to the manner in which inputs are used when he states that one implication of his] efficient but poor hypothesis... [is] that the combination of crops grown, the number of times and depth of cultivation, the time of planting, watering, and harvesting, the combination of hand tools, ditches to carry water to the fields, draft animals and simple equipment -- are all made with a fine regard for marginal costs. View quote
Theodore Schultz
I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible. View quote
Connie Willis
I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside. View quote
Anne Tyler
Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people. View quote
Anne Tyler
America should be choosing immigrants the way the New England Patriots choose players. They don't have a lottery system for their draft picks. No one guilts them into taking a blind kid with one leg over an All American–much less the blind kid's cousin, to keep him company. View quote
Ann Coulter
I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing. View quote
Dean Koontz
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something-anything-down on paper. What I've learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is to quiet the voices in my head. View quote
Anne Lamott
The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them. (John Irving)
Even while I was a Navy SEAL, I participated in the 1970s peace movement. I marched at peace rallies. I admit it wasn't so much because of my great love of peace as it was because of my great love of female companionship. To the women in the movement, I was the poor beleaguered victim of the system, sent off against his will to fight this horrible war. They didn't realize that the navy had no draft! View quote
Jesse Ventura
To this day, I'm against the draft. I believe the military is much stronger if it's an all-volunteer organization. View quote
Jesse Ventura
So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course, I discover all sorts of bigger and more substantial things. View quote
Peter Carey
When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still make the same mistakes every time. View quote
Michael Chabon