Tom Davenport Quotes

A bureaucrat who said no to everything rarely got in trouble. ~ Tom Clancy

As a part of preparing those lawsuits, learning about those lawsuits, I learned about the various nuclear issues in parts of the nuclear production process I guess you'd say. ~ Tom Udall

he published a manifesto with a title Darwinists have been quoting ever since: "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution."78 ~ Tom Wolfe

Hawaii once had a rat problem. Then, somebody hit upon a brilliant solution. import mongooses from India. Mongooses would kill the rats. It worked. Mongooses did kill the rats. Mongooses also killed chickens, young pigs, birds, cats, dogs, and small children. There have been reports of mongooses attacking motorbikes, power lawn mowers, golf carts, and James Michener. in Hawaii now, there are as many mongooses as there once were rats. Hawaii had traded its rat problem for a mongoose problem. Hawaii was determined nothing like that would ever happen again.
How could Leigh-Cheri draw for Gulietta the appropriate analogy between Hawaii's rodents and society at large? Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem. ~ Tom Robbins

I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was physical and that all emotions were reductive to little electrical impulses in your neurons. And I found that I didn't believe that. But what the emotions really are, I don't have an alternative theory. ~ Tom Stoppard

I did everything I could except win. I feel fine. I just played bad at a big time. ~ Lindsay Davenport

There are too many things I find it difficult to say 'no' to. ~ Tom Stoppard

The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible ... ~ Tom Peters

Help, and you will make a huge impact in the life of the street, the town, the country and our planet. If only one out of four of each one hundred of you choose to help on any given day, in any given cause, incredible things will happen in the world you live in. ~ Tom Hanks

I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life. ~ Tom Robbins

Without revealing too much, there's a specific skill set you need to be in Loki's army - let me know if you have the qualifications. ~ Tom Hiddleston

I have never ever Googled myself; in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things. ~ Tom Robbins

I don't know what the 'big time' is. ~ Tom Waits

Kids: get away from the cell phones, get away from the computers, and mail someone a fish before it's too late. ~ Tom Magliozzi

I'm not any happier anywhere than when I'm in the studio. I'm over the moon about it. It keeps me young, it keeps me feeling like I have some purpose. ~ Tom Petty

People are sometimes easily overlooked. The holes they leave behind when they aren't there any more are far harder to miss. ~ Tom Holt

By the time I received my doctorate in American studies in 1957, I was in the twisted grip of a disease of our times in which the sufferer experiences an overwhelming urge to join the 'real world.' So I started working for newspapers. ~ Tom Wolfe

We had training camp for a week, and we used the actual military drills of that period. We didn't have to work out much after hours, because going up and down hills all day was a good workout in itself. ~ Tom Berenger

Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else. ~ Clarence Thomas

I have enormous respect for Tom Daschle. The NRA has not yet taken a formal position on which I'm aware of on this matter, and I think Tom may be just getting a little ahead of things. ~ John Dingell

Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought. ~ Tom Stoppard

Jon had seen the lie immediately for what it was: diplomacy. He had a feeling that, given the chance, Tom would hold him close every night. Instead, the first mate chose to distance himself so as not to interfere with the captain's affection for Jon. A sacrifice. ~ Bey Deckard

Let us each day search from the scriptures and from the prophets ... . The scriptures that are never read will never help us. If read, the words of God will nourish our souls and carry us to great heights in our endeavors. ~ L. Tom Perry

There's nothing like the word dangerous to generate interest: it's irresistible to young males, scary to most young females. ~ Tom Robbins

When you encounter the unbelievers, blows to necks it shall be until, once you have routed them, you are to tighten their fetters. ~ Tom Holland

Freedom has long proven too heady an elixir for America's masses, weakened and confused as they are by conflicting commitments to puritanical morality and salacious greed. ~ Tom Robbins

Video games are a special kind of play, but at root, they're about the same things as other games: embracing particular rules and restrictions in order to develop skills and experience rewards. When a game is well-designed, it's the balance between these factors that engages people on a fundamental level. ~ Tom Chatfield

Stand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not for sale! ~ Tom Selleck

The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. - Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE ~ Tom Standage

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them. ~ Tom Stoppard

I don't answer my phone in a restaurant. ~ Tom Douglas

When I was around 13 or 14, I started getting really into songwriting. And one day, I was rooting through my mum's old tapes and records, and I found 'Grace' by Jeff Buckley. I remember so vividly the first time I put it on. It blew my mind: his voice, the way he could play the guitar. I must have listened to the album over and over for weeks. ~ Tom Odell

Paradoxically, the fear of breaking your neck (translation in corporate terms: losing your job) does not make change impossible. It's a much more insidious kind of fear that interferes with change: the fear of mockery. If you want to make change in your organization utterly impossible, try mocking people as they struggle with the new, unfamiliar ways you have just urged upon them. There is no surer way to stop essential change dead. The safety that is required for essential change is a sure sense that no one will be mocked, demeaned, or belittled while struggling to achieve renewed mastery. ~ Tom DeMarco

He's a little more ... psychotic than usual," Tom said quietly.
"How so?"
"He took C-4 to bed with him."
Prophet shrugged. "He's always done that. ~ S.E. Jakes