(427 quotes found)
“Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.”
Donald Rumsfeld
“He's bowling 150km/h most balls. There's a very small margin for error there.”
Ricky Ponting
“The margin is very marginal.”
Bobby Robson
“[In the margins of the 1962 script for] Something's Got to Give, ... Some changes should be made but not like this -- either they have to trust me to play the scenes with heart, or we are lost. This writer maybe (sic) good but what has been written new pages will inhibit me.”
Marilyn Monroe
“The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.”
Judith Butler
“Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.”
William S. Burroughs
“Data provided by certain Arizona wholesalers and distributors indicated that they were able to increase their gross margins to 20 or 30 cents per gallon on some sales post Katrina.”
Andrea Esquer
“It's good for Compaq at the margin, because it helps them fill out their product line, and it is good for IBM at the margin because it helps them to sell storage.”
Andrew Neff
“Motorola has to care less what the carriers want, because the carriers essentially want [manufacturers] to have no margins.”
Albert Lin