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Quotes About Procedure

Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.
~ Lamar Alexander
The last time I was in there to set up for a surgery, I was sitting in the waiting room ... watching television. And a special came on the news about a guy who got AIDS from re-used medical equipment in the VA. It was the same procedure I was fixing to get. I'm gone. Deuces. I walked out, man.
~ Marcus Luttrell
'Law & Order' has the same plot every single episode.
~ Craig Mazin
If I want to go to sleep, click on a procedural, put me right out.
~ William Fichtner
Bills should go through committee.
~ Mitch McConnell
A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.
~ Rudy Rucker
A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.
~ Tom Udall
Because of 'Line Of Duty's proper adherence to police procedure, by definition we end up doing some very long interrogation scenes which are difficult to learn, and require lots of concentration to sustain them across shooting.
~ Adrian Dunbar
If you get a colonoscopy, you should really insist they give you no drugs - then you do get to see what it's like to swim through your own intestines.
~ Mary Roach
suppose there was some medical procedure that will provide some modest health benefit but is extremely painful. However, the procedure is administered with a drug that does not prevent the pain but instead erases all memory of the event. Would you be willing to undertake this procedure?
~ Richard H. Thaler
Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure.
~ Larry Dossey
Well, the test was negative," he said, then described the procedure, explaining that in clonus the alternate flexing and releasing of the foot would have triggered a run of clonic contractions. But as he sat at his desk, Klein still seemed worried. "Has she ever had a fall?" he asked.
~ William Peter Blatty
Either Billie's had a procedure or that swimsuit is doing god's work. They're jacked up to her collarbones just like when she was eighteen.
~ Deanna Raybourn
su procedimiento lo ha llamado vacuna, de la palabra vaca, y es bastante simple. Es parecido a la variolización, pero inoculando pus de vaca en vez de pus de viruela humana. Quiero
~ Javier Moro
I call saintliness not a state but the moral procedure leading to it.
~ Jean Genet
The strange word nymphomation, used to denote a complex mathematical procedure where numbers, rather than being added together or multiplied or whatever, were actually allowed to breed with each other to produce new numbers.
~ Jeff Noon
My criticism of Hegel procedure is that when in his discussion he arrives at a contradiction, he construes it as a crisis in the universe.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
I happen to agree with many of President Obama's policies, but in our system, it is often as important how you do something as what you do.
~ Jonathan Turley
'Scott and Bailey' was very much forensically interested in the ins and outs of the way they went about cracking a case from the point of something happening to how they managed to arrest someone.
~ Lesley Sharp
Since the Six-Day War, the whole world, which is the real arena of battle between us and the Palestinians, believes that Israel is right in regard to procedure, namely problems and disputes should be solved around the negotiating table.
~ Ehud Barak
I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.
~ Donna Karan
Yes we have a specific procedure which we follow in all cases where the Agency is in contact, for the purposes of acquiring intelligence or whatever the case may be, with an individual.
~ Richard M. Helms
Warren Cox, God knew, was no prize; a commercial person, a sales person, the kind of man who said things like "x numbers of dollars". At lunch today, laboriously trying to explain some business procedure, he had said "x number of dollars" three times.
~ Richard Yates
Russell called the move "a lynching of orderly procedure in the Senate." Johnson's angry response—that "this was the only kind of lynching he had ever heard Russell object to"—was blurted out only in private
~ Robert A. Caro