Jettison Quotes

You realize there are certain things that you'll never do that you always thought would be part of your future... It's a big relief to discover what you are best-suited for, and it's a real advantage to be able then to focus. You can just jettison all this useless floundering around, attempting to do stuff that's really not in your range, and focus. - Richard Hell

We all need to be vigilant in ensuring that the government's proposed measures do not jettison fundamental freedoms at the cost of providing little or no guarantee of extra security. - Sir Iqbal Sacranie

The subcommittee jettisoned the ethnicity complaint. They said it's irrelevant to his scholarship. - David Lane

The people who are helped by this are the UHF stations that are not highly rated. What the cable operators would have liked would have been to take only the more popular stations, keep them on cable and jettison the really obscure stations. - David Londoner

The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and the appeal of electing a superbly qualified charismatic African American leader. - Mary Frances Berry

Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world. - David Caruso

Public access had never been an issue until now. Now, I think the commissioners see this as a way to jettison public access because they don't like some of the people on there. - Jan Platt

I'm looking to buy very-high-quality companies that people have jettisoned from their portfolios because they're overly concerned about the short-term outlook for the economy. - David Brady

If there is a small rocket on top of a big one, and if the big one is jettisoned and the small one is ignited, then their speeds are added. - Hermann Oberth

I took the overreaching arc I was headed toward in the TV show and made that the plot of the movie... I had to jettison or streamline plenty of things. It's two totally different mediums, and you've got to respect that. A TV show can kind of meander its way along and find a little piece of something for everybody. A movie is more about the momentum of the main story. - Joss Whedon