Deadline Quotes

• People say nice things to me -- like that I ought to run for president -- which tells me that they like me. But I have my own deadline for how long I should be in Washington. I think you can get accustomed to red tape and many unfair things that go on in government. Once you stop getting angry about inefficiencies, waste, and injustice, you ought to get out. That's my time limit.

  

  Elizabeth Holtzman
  • People
  • Government
  • President

• Missing kids are tough cases. I mean, murder is bad but at least the worst has already happened to the victim—they’re not going to get any deader. Missing kids come with a literal deadline, made worse by the fact that you don’t get to learn the timing until it’s too late.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Victim
  • Murder
  • Missing Kids

• We can't spell deadline, never mind meet one.

  

  Rick Savage Def Leppard
  • Mind
  • Meet
  • Deadline

• Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That´t what they are.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Names
  • Lines
  • Deadline

• If you've got a deadline and you're an artist, you've just got to be on the case - nothing else can come in the way, or you won't make good work... the people around you just have to understand.

  

  Catherine Yass
  • People
  • Way
  • Artist

• A few Disney TV composers had me pinch-hit writing some scoring cues to picture. Disney tapped me to be the composer for the underscore and song producer for this new show called "Phineas and Ferb."There is nothing like a successful animated show to get your chops up. You have to do every style - action, adventure, romantic, suspense, spy, poignant, rock, funk, big band - delivered on a deadline.

  

  Danny Jacob
  • Song
  • Successful
  • Adventure

• Any job ends up with stress, and certainly there's always a deadline looming when you work in TV. It's sort of constant.

  

  Dan Povenmire
  • Stress
  • Constant
  • Certainly

• We are growing increasingly concerned about the District's ability to meet the agreed-upon December 31, 2005 deadline, by which date a number of critical tasks in the Baseball Stadium Agreement must be completed.

  

  Bob DuPuy
  • Ability
  • Deadline
  • Baseball Stadium Agreement

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