Peripheral Quotations

It's not necessary to have read everything about a particular subject in order to get interested in it. The main thing is to sort out what's important and what is peripheral in order to be able to dive in.

In the case of 'News Radio,' I loved that show. I loved the actors and the producers, but I was longing very much for something more to sink my teeth into me. I think it was an incredibly smart show, but I found myself on the peripheral of a lot of it.

On reading the first part of Anthony Powell's four-part masterpiece, 'A Dance to the Music of Time,' I was struck by one of the characters - an irritating peripheral character- who keeps showing up in the main protagonist's life.

This is the story, this is your character, I have the sense of the landscape, I have the sense of the scene, I have all that stuff. But I'm also looking for something else to happen, an accident or something. You're focused on the story you intend to tell and then you have to have a peripheral net out to catch these accidents.

I never thought that shoes would be the reason that you recruit players, but it's a factor. I think we need to get the shoe companies out of the lives of the athletes. I think we need to get it back to where parents and coaches have more of a say than peripheral people, but that's easier said than done.

I'm crazy lucky. I was trying to be a filmmaker. I was doing Second City classes as a way to be creative. I was a PA for a long time. I was working as an assistant editor on 'Iron Chef America' when I got 'SNL.' It was one of those situations where you're concentrating in one thing and the peripheral thing popped.

only the peripheral winds of the Asian crisis.

He's good at finding guys out of his peripheral vision. Usually he can just get it and fire it, and you're not ready for it because you don't think he sees you. He's got awesome vision.

Whatever his explanations are as to what he said, he has to clean up his own house. I'm concerned with what's happening on the field, not all this peripheral stuff.

My peripheral vision has been severely limited because of my diabetes, which means I can see just fine looking straight ahead. But if I am at a function with lots of people, I am constantly bumping into people - even kicking them!

Squint your eyes and look closer. I'm not between you and your ambitions. I am a poster girl with no poster. I am thirty-two flavors and then some. And I'm beyond your peripheral vision, so you might want to turn your head. 'Cuz some day you are gonna get hungry, and eat all of the words you just said.

While we women dilly-dally, making decisions, leaving jobs half done, forgetting where we've put the house keys while we water the Hoover and leave the laundry in the dishwasher, men, like blinkered horses, look straight ahead, oblivious to peripheral vision, where a discarded pile of wet towels might have caught their eye.

The Peripheral Canal automatically throws you into a heated argument that doesn't solve the problem.

We're going to do the silent count, whatever we need to do. You've got to look at the ball, concentrate. As for looking at your guy, that's what peripheral vision is for.

Financial assistance from Peripheral Development Fund has been provided by Nalco to many educational institutions, trusts, etc, over the years. Financial assistance has not been provided to any private university.

We are excited about the synergies and strategic benefits of this acquisition, including the improved reach into Asia and the broadening of our offering with less-complex, higher-turn products in the mixed-signal and structured digital business. This acquisition expands our market and scale in both mixed-signal and structured digital products. In addition, the peripheral imaging sensor products included in the acquisition enhance our core competencies while driving profitable growth.

The D-Series solution gives customers the flexibility to pursue peripheral markets once thought unreachable with current channel counts. By utilizing D-Series? in combination with other elements of the H-Class Application Suite, customers gain a dramatic competitive advantage through increased performance and improved capability to streamline their operations, increase productivity, optimize revenue streams and reduce operational and infrastructure costs. D-Series? is clearly the mid- and large-scale automation solution for the business-focused enterprise.

You can see the difference. It helps with passing the ball and defensively, with their peripheral vision.

These issues are not academic or peripheral -- they directly affect every mutual fund investor. ... One word above all must define a fund's overall management structure. That word is accountability. And, without strong independent directors, accountability is nothing more than words on a page.

The truth is that I already had written a good deal about Lincoln in a peripheral fashion, but I had always stayed away from the main subject.

You can't not build a bobsleigh track. But if you have a budget problem, there is an impact on peripheral items. There is no doubt that the Games have been run reasonably well, and nothing has affected matters on the field of play, but the teams have had challenges from a management perspective.

They're doing pretty much exactly what we did three years ago. But the unanswered question in all this is what are they going to do in terms of fleet enhancement. In our experience it cost $1.5bn to upgrade our planes. I don't see that type of investment as likely from BA, as this is a very peripheral part of the overall business.

I feel bad for him because he really had a fantastic season and he deserved to be here to accept this award, but with an injury of that status this is kind of the peripheral things that happen. I'm happy for him and I'm happy for Marvin Lewis.

I figured, 'Why not put goggle characteristics like peripheral protection and face fit into sunglasses?'

I don't think they can build an earthquake-proof canal. . . . Pumping several billion dollars into a Peripheral Canal is money that could be spent on water transfers and efficiencies.

You can see the future best through peripheral vision.

The discussion of the Peripheral Canal consumes so much oxygen you don't get to talk about a comprehensive solution.