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Quotes About Memo

It took me a long time to blossom. Everyone else understood how to socialize and how to look. I didn't get the memo.
~ Catherine Reitman
Production is a lot of work. Nobody sent me that memo when they came to me to do television.
~ Priyanka Chopra
I don't have the freaking energy to write a memo. I'm out there saving lives.
~ Carmen Yulin Cruz
Apparently you haven't gotten the memo. I am the Ice Man. Rude, honest to the point of brutal and emotionally unavailable. Women aren't exactly throwing themselves at me." A pause. "Anymore.
~ Gena Showalter
Grace isn't just for other people. Maybe you didn't get that memo.
~ Susan May Warren
when I saw that blasted license manager trying to dial out to the public internet to complain about Facilities running too many copies of the TLA monitoring client, I cc'd everyone I could think of on the memo—
~ Charles Stross
The corridor of the Psychiatry Department of La Luz City University Medical Facility was a sterile affair. Since then it's been painted in a mellow magnolia and there's some framed artwork on the walls. We had a memo before the prints went up, checking whether we considered them suitably 'non-stimulating'. We all joked about that for a long time afterwards. 'Nice jacket,' we'd say, 'but are you sure it's non-stimulating enough?
~ Tammy Cohen
Let's get China to leak a memo that says they want to build military bases on Mars. We'd be on Mars in twelve months.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.'
~ Harold H. Greene
The phones were ringing off the hook, and the sweetness in Allan Vasey's voice was almost purely a matter of routine. Had to be nice to the customers, man. At all costs. You had to keep them happy. In fact, just this morning, he'd pinned a bogus memo up over the dispatch desk: it said BE POLITE, OR WE'LL KILL YOU. Signed, The Management. At least two of the people who came into the office weren't sure that it was a joke.
~ Chet Williamson
The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.'
~ Harold H. Greene
Physically transporting bits of information about a grid that consisted of little else, she provided a degree of absolute security in the fluid universe of data. With your memo in the girl's bag, you knew precisely where it was; otherwise, your memo was nowhere, perhaps everywhere, in that instant of transit.
~ William Gibson
Memo: do not drink coffee. It makes me uselessly nervy, even trembly, and engenders baseless optimism about my powers of creation.
~ Helen Garner
The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.
~ Jilly Cooper
Apparently the term refugee can be plausibly denied if both - I'm quoting direct from Neil's memo here - if both, a, no homemade wagons piled high with worldly goods are pulled by slow bovine animals with curvy horns, and b, if the percentage of children under six who are either, a, naked, or b, squalling at the top of their lungs, or c, both, is under 20% of the total number of children under six in transit.
~ David Foster Wallace
dropped the old name, Alto Aloha Network, in favor of a new phrase: the "ETHER Network." "If Ethernet was invented in any one memo, by any one person, or on any one day," says Metcalfe, "this was it.
~ Unknown
Y'know, it's not that we need equality. Because everyone's already equal, it's just that a ton of idiots lost the memo. Indeed, everyone just needs to be TREATED like the equal they already are.
~ Unknown
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
~ Dean Acheson