Scheme Quotes


[Meltzer's fifth novel is a thriller about two Hill aides who run a betting game about Congress; one of them turns up dead.] Since the book came out I've had staffers contact me and tell me about their own betting scheme in Congress, ... Everyone keeps saying, 'You didn't make up anything -- we've been doing that for years!' - Brad Meltzer


[In the green scheme of things, death becomes a vehicle for land conservation and saving the planet.] It is not enough to be a corpse anymore... Now, you have to be a politically correct corpse. - Thomas Lynch


[For the first time under Brown, the first-team units went live against each other in practice. The defense ran the same blitz packages OU uses, with the same stunts used at the line of scrimmage. The staff wanted Young to see the scheme with first-team speed, not scout-team speed. This would enable him to recognize the schemes quicker and to adjust the protections and his reads on the option.] I was seeing everything, ... I've never felt more comfortable at the line of scrimmage. - Vince Young


[Executives of public companies don't like to talk about spam, he says, because they don't want the world to know just how much it costs them.] When part of your IT budget depends on whether Billy Bob in accounting signed up for a pyramid scheme, that's not something they like to talk about... With spam, it's an ongoing guerrilla war. - Ray Everett-Church


[Creator] Ryan Murphy may have had this grand scheme before then, but I remember shooting this flashback scene where they shot the three of them on this home movie camera and put a wig on Julian... And the wig looked a lot like my hair did at the time. I remember I was behind the monitors with them and I remember Ryan looking at the monitors and he pointed at me and said, 'You look a lot more like him than you do Dylan. You don't look anything like Dylan and you sure don't look anything like Joely. You actually kind of look like Julian.' And I think he literally went like, 'hmmm.' Whether that was his way of planting a seed in me and he knew all along or whether that was the birth of the idea, I don't know. I wasn't shocked when that happened. - John Hensley


[But] trying to get paid anonymously in 1989 was a lot different... These schemes can now be reinvented because you can get away with it. - Joe Stewart


[Bigotry's] birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings. - Bayard Rustin


(UA) played really hard, and they had a very good defense... Their scheme is very solid. They know how to mix their looks and their pressures. They came after us and were really effective. We respect the heck out of what they are doing and what they are capable of doing. - Pete Carroll


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