Department Quotes

• Department of Energy data confirms that New York State’s per capita energy consumption is next to last in the country, which largely reflects public transit use in New York City.

  

  Edward Glaeser
  • Country
  • Energy
  • Transit

• My wife and I were shopping for the whole family. In the music department my wife said, "Let's get your nephew a set of drums. That's what your brother did to us last year."

  

  Milton Berle
  • Music
  • Family
  • Wife

• The government does a lot of stuff that it shouldn't do - the Department of Education, for instance.

  

  Milo Yiannopoulos
  • Department
  • Instance

• I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.

  

  Joseph R. McCarthy
  • Working
  • Department
  • List

• Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

  

  Michael Novak
  • Education
  • Marriage
  • Originals

• Did the Prime Minister have some sort of grudge against you by sending this publicity crazed person into your Department?

  

  David Winnick
  • Persons
  • Ministers
  • Grudge

• I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.

  

  Missi Pyle
  • Drama
  • Performing
  • Department

• It is the great inspector, with a myriad eyes, who never sleeps, and whose daily reports are submitted, not to a functionary or department, but to the whole people.

  

  William Thomas Stead
  • Whole
  • Reports
  • Inspectors

• They have to get authority from the President through their department heads.

  

  Eduardo Ermita
  • President
  • Authority
  • Department

• The fascinating thing about the studio was that there was no story department. They would put a little notice up on the bulletin board saying: 'The next Oswald will take place at the North Pole. Anybody having any gags, please turn them in before such a date.' If you turned in gags regularly, the way Tex Avery, Cal Howard, Jack Carr and two or three others of us did, you'd be called into the gag meeting. The group would go into Walt's office and talk about whatever the subject of the cartoon was. Walt would put it into some kind of form and that was the story--no scripts, no storyboards.

  

  Walter Lantz
  • Office
  • Meetings
  • Scripts

• The fair sex is your department.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Sex
  • Department

• My doctor says, 'You've got one of the hardest ones to treat because it's not bipolar, it's not up and down, you're always just about a quart low in the mood department.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Doctor
  • Department
  • Bipolar

• The truth is James Cameron can do every other job. I'm talking about every single department, from art direction to props to wardrobe to cameras, he knows more than everyone doing the job. But he can't act. And therefore he is in thrall of actors.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Job
  • Truth
  • Actors

• I think my father would give me the Department of the Interior because of my love of the outdoors, so we can get that going.

  

  Sean Hannity
  • Father
  • Giving
  • Department

• If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Ideas
  • Looks
  • Assassins

• I've been pretty lucky in the leading men department.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Men
  • Lucky
  • Department

• I am opposed to the privatization of the Veterans Affairs Department and will continue to make sure the VHA is fully funded.

  

  Robert Wilkie
  • Department
  • Opposed
  • Privatization

• Sports is the toy department of life.

  

  George Will
  • Sports
  • Department
  • Toys

• Don't let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department.

  

  Ernest Rutherford
  • Department

• I sent for you, Mansus, because I suffer from the illusion that you have more brains than most of the people in my department, and that's not saying much.

  

  Edgar Wallace
  • Illusion
  • Suffer
  • Department

• I obviously want to give a healthy body image to my own daughter. I think having good examples, eating properly, that's all one can do - and just be really loving around her. I've tried to give her confidence in who she is. I think she's all right in the confidence department.

  

  Geri Halliwell Spice Girls
  • Confidence
  • Image
  • Department

• The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got.

  

  Michael Chertoff
  • Defense
  • Department

• I believe that filmmakers have to internalize the story and subtext so well that all of the departments can start to speak to each other - that music can speak to cinematography can speak to writing and back again.

  

  Shane Carruth
  • Believe
  • Filmmaker
  • Cinematography

• Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Serious
  • Study
  • Creating

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