Boards Quotes

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.

Never board a commercial aircraft if the pilot is wearing a tank top.

The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.

I am incredibly proud to return to the Yahoo board.

One Christmas, I just begged my parents like "I want to try to surf on a real board instead of these boogie boards and rafts" and they got me one.

As a consequence [of a closed economic circle], in 1912 there was not a single Irishman who sat on a single board of a major Boston bank.

There's already a lot of self-exculpatory history being written. Right across the board. And it's my task to make sure that such self-exculpatory histories cannot be written.

At IMVU, we opened up our board meetings to the whole company.

A kitchen without an ironing board? Are you kidding? It's un-American. It's like Simon without Garfunkel.

Real samadhi is off the game board, friends. It is not something you are even aware of.

I see a Latino comic as someone who can only perform for Latino audiences. I cross the board.

The intellect is no longer the chairman of the board - it is an employee. It becomes a tool in the service of the heart.

I've been active in a minor way compared to professional activists. I was a labor leader. I led two labor strikes. I've manipulated boards. I've led marches. I've done many things.

If a good visionary wants to jump on board with that and I see their vision correctly and I like it and I like the script, I would absolutely do it but I have to read the script first.

The Board of Trade Make Do and Mend campaign is intended to help you get the last ounce of wear out of all your clothes

Across the board, Australian films need to have a lot more money spent on selling them.

There's also a lot of skateboard stuff, because I was a skateboarder. Somewhere around here I have one of my original boards.

I'm bored, I'm the chairman of the board.

I batted my eyelashes and did my best to appear dumb as a board

Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.

The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.

The acting in Downton Abbey has been consistently excellent across the board.

If anybody ever flied to the Moon, the very next day Trippe will ask the Civil Aeronautics Board to authorize regular service.

Part of the reason some Japanese companies have underperformed financially was corporate governance and board structures.

I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.

Put a lot of paint & a wooden ball or other object on a board. Push to the other end of the board. Use this in a painting. - ruler on board.

[Boris]Johnson, [Nigel] Farage, they are retro-nationalists, not patriots. Patriots don't abandon ship when the going gets tough. They stay on board.

Non-profits find the very best Who and put them on their Boards because they don't want to pay them.

I still can't set up the ironing-board. A complete Luddite.

If we win, I don't care if I get 20 boards or five boards.

Cassivelaunus had prepared the river for Caesar, by planting it full of stakes (and had, no doubt, put up a notice-board).

You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men.

Elizabeth Taylor was so fat that whenever she went to London in a red dress, 30 passengers would try to board her.

You gotta score to put points on the board.

And if I lost I would have gone back to 12 weeks of vacation, because I was successful enough that I was spending much more time on non-profit boards and traveling a lot.

If you don't know how to hold a board, you're going to look phony. That's was the biggest pressure for me was to have that respect and to look up to that.

I love to think big and with the right people on board I know I can make anything.

Marriage is like a chess match is initiated and the board expands over time until it takes up all of a life.

Across the board, it's infinitely more effective to praise actions that you want to encourage than to punish those you disapprove of.

Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.

The hardest part is keeping yourself even keel across the board. You have to keep a balance until you get to Sunday and understand what goes with the week.

Say what you will about zombies and their hygeine issues,at least they kill you fast.College acceptance boards? They like to draw out the torment as long as possible.

We can't create a shift in normalised attitudes and behaviours without everybody on board, so not being sexist isn't enough - get stuck in and start tackling sexism too.

The Democrats - Democrats on board, the Congress said tax policy.But their tax policy was pretty bad, that added $800 billion to the deficit.

Visit USA.gov and you'll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services replete with overlapping responsibilities, ancient priorities, and divided accountability.

When I was at Manchester, where there was a modern swimming pool, I was looked on as a great man, not for so trivial a reason as being an FRS, but because I used to dive off a five-metre board.

Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.

I've been on a show before where I was on a billboard and then, after like three or four weeks, they took the billboard down and replaced it with nothing. Took my face down and put a white board up.

At SGI board meetings... Jim Clark's face would get red and he'd start shouting that an investor and board member had cheated him and his engineers.

Spending comes just as natural to liberals in Minnesota and the Minnesota legislature as bashing decency comes to the editorial board of our major metropolitan newspapers.