“ In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading. ”
- J. F. C. Fuller- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Having a plan on paper does nothing to protect us,... Next month is too late. The United States is woefully unprepared for this, and we must get started immediately. ”
- Tom Harkin- Copy
- 998
“ A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. ”
- Fred Allen- Copy
- 2.8K
“ A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done. ”
- Fred A. Allen- Copy
- 2.9K
“ The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance. ”
- Ruth Gordon- Copy
- 505
“ He has come to symbolize how unprepared this administration was for this disaster, fairly or unfairly. ”
- Stephen Hess- Copy
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“ It's a great opportunity to be together apart from celebrating Indian cinema. ”
- Amitabh Bachchan- Copy
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“ Hope for the best, expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed. ”
- Mel Brooks- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes. ”
- Alden Nowlan- Copy
- 3.5K
“ It is completely improvised. We have had no meetings backstage, we have not written anything, and everything you see onstage tonight is being made up on the spot. ”
- Amy Poehler- Copy
- 836
“ A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ And thus, what can we do, Poor rose and poet too, Who both antedate our mission In an unprepared season? ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
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“ Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift. ”
- William James- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised. ”
- Larry David- Copy
- 2.4K
“ All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts… ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life. ”
- Frances Cornford- Copy
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“ It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ The best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance. ”
- Ruth Gordon- Copy
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