The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.
We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.
If the Resurrection had not occurred, why would the apostle Paul give such a list of supposed eyewitnesses? He would immediately lose all credibility with his Corinthian readers by lying so blatantly.
Do you like to eat things? -I love eating. I list it as a hobby.
I've kind of achieved everything I thought that I never would, so I haven't really got a bucket list. But I really wanna go to loads of different places.
No, you just keep crashing my life. Look—" I said, and Al grunted. "Here it comes," the demon muttered. "Listen. Listen to this, runt. She's going to have a list.
History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents
We like lists because we don't want to die.
When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spend, but I did have a very specific list of things I wanted to do: buy cookies and sit on the furniture at Sears.
I'm obsessed with making lists.
At EMILY's List, we're in the business of expanding the political power of women.
Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority. It wasn't like somebody told me about it and I said, "I don't know how to spell that. " I said, "Yeah, I've got that on my list, so I'm okay. " But there came a point when we realized it was happening faster and was a much deeper phenomenon than had been recognized in our strategy.
If I were, to pick out the most valuable personal traits of a fighter pilot, aggressiveness would rate high on the list. Time and again, I have seen aggressive action, even from a disadvantageous position, completely rout a powerful Nip formation.
Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
Any job that posts a price list for your body parts is a bad job.
Don't know if it's good or bad that a Google search on “Big Bang Theory” lists the sitcom before the origin of the Universe
I'd made a long list of exceptions to cover the area between "ignoring her completely" and "abducting her at knifepoint.
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?
No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.
Meryl Streep belongs on anybody's list of greats.