To Do Lists Quotes

In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.

A major celebrity is a major brand, and major brands pick very critically what other brands they're going to associate with. So an A-list celebrity usually picks an A-list brand.

Lists are how I parse and manage the world.

My husband and I both have our bucket lists. Running a marathon was on mine.

Make a list. Score your dates. Market yourself wisely. Find your needle.

A treasure...at the top of any list of fantasy to be cherished.

It's pretty high up there on the list. Being able to return a serve at that speed is one of the biggest things that separates the professionals from the recreational players.

That just sounds so funny, A-list. Really, I'm a mom, and that's how I'm going to be all my life.

One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.

I'm a huge Coppola fan. But more of 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Conversation.' 'The Godfather' for me is, like, number three or four on the list.

I have everything in my house organized to an unnecessary T, and I love it! The only downside: I have no excuses for losing my to-do lists.

I've been keeping my own naughty and nice list for Washington.

I’m not going to kill you, Nora. I don’t kill people who are important to me. And you top the list.

I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making.

Destiny's Child will always be No.1 on my list.

Of course, there are questions that plague all of us. How did we get here? What happens when we die? Is there a heaven? Am I on the list? Who let the dogs out?

A new biography of Madonna came out last week, and apparently the biography lists all the men she's slept with. The book is apparently called the Manhattan Telephone Directory.

My theory is that, just like with omitting a final comma in a list when not essential for meaning, publishers are trying to save paper and ink or pixels on-screen.

Sometimes I'm asked to list the most important steps in preparing for an evangelistic mission, and my reply is always the same: prayer... prayer... prayer.

I love the way a list makes a big hodgepodge of things simmer down and behave.

Leigh [Bowery] would create fake guest lists and put the most ridiculous names on them - Joan Collins, or really naff soap stars who would never grace the door of Taboo.

The numbing lists of things you were supposed to have as an American to make you happy, which ultimately, of course, don't. Those aren't the things that make you happy.

The Monmouth-Ocean area is . . . always in the best-areas-to-live lists.

The measure of a great writer is not how many weeks his books spend on the best-seller lists, but how many years his books remain in print after his death.

It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.

I've got no aspirations to become an A-list celebrity.

Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.

Whenever I see interesting names, I jot them down. I've found them in lots of different places: on the news, in the phone book, even on hotel registry lists.

In truth, we're all just pottering, filling the time that we have here, only we like to make ourselves feel bigger by compiling lists of importance.

If I feel like I am about to explode, I take a minute to evaluate what it is that I have on my plate, make a to-do list, and start tackling what I need to do, one step at a time.

When you're a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast.

In Nigeria, Hillary Clinton amazingly fought for two years to keep an Al-Qaeda affiliate off the terrorist watch list.

I haven't hit the bestseller list, but I consider myself one of the luckiest writers in the world, and this is mainly because of Grub Street.

Today, possible presidential candidate Donald Trump released his birth certificate. It lists his eyes as blue and his hair as ridiculous.

I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

Value will always be on top of everyone's lists now, right along with safety.

Truth is something we discover by carrying it out. It is not a list of statements, but a direction of life.

I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long list that goes wrong, but I wanted to know if there was any validity to that.

Our first-year list is Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (translated by Arunava Sinha), Hwang Jung-eun (translated by Jung Yewon), and Khairani Barokka.

You know what's the greatest part of anything ever in the history of everything? Exaggeration. No, wait; it's correcting yourself. No, better yet, it's making lists.

I don't need to prove that I'm some great international filmmaker. It's not really on my list of goals.

1 Timothy 3 lists only one gift, teaching, then follows w a list of character traits.

Meryl Streep belongs on anybody's list of greats.

Look where we stand in the world on education. We're at the bottom of the list. So it's obviously not working.

I practice yoga and take a steam-filled bath or shower. Then I sit quietly and review and prioritize my to-do list.

John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he's ready to go after you.

Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.

The hours Facebook users put into their profiles and lists and updates is the labor that Facebook then sells to the market researchers and advertisers it serves.

There's no diet list I'll follow that would rule out cherry pie.

The paynefull smith, with force of fervent heat, The hardest yron soone doth mollify, That with his heavy sledge he can it beat, And fashion it to what he it list apply.