#oar

The average American's day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles's dart board. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#average #board #charles #dart #day

Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term. ↗

— J. Irwin Miller

#building #business #chief #chief executive #companies

I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors. ↗

— Merton Miller

#board #dimensional #directors #fund #i

And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected. ↗

— Spike Milligan

#connected #electricity #god #light #said

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung. ↗

— John Milton

#confined #confusion #darkness #disorder #fled

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#how #looks #matters #merely #oar

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#board #doing #go #good #i

I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#board #buy #get #hybrid #i

Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women. ↗

— Anne M. Mulcahy

#had #significant #suckers #those #time

We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms. ↗

— Anne M. Mulcahy

#boards #companies #constituents #data #defend