Elective Quotations

We want to make sure that the level of student is high, and I would say we're selective, but not as selective as the undergraduate program (at Hopkins). Not yet, anyway.

We realized our potential tonight. We took care of the ball and took selective shots. We did a nice job of moving our feet on defense and contesting shots.

Well, in our industry it's that the movies cost so much money to make they have to appeal to a broad audience. And I think that's part of what will loosen up in the future, as technology makes it cheaper, you'll be able to make films for a more selective audience. I think people will be able to make more personal movies.

Well I like to work, it's just being as selective as you are at the time, when there's maybe less product out there that's available.

This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office.

They were using the selective use of facts and intelligence to bolster a decision in the case that had already been made, a decision that had been made to go war,

Selective memory is surely one of nature's most effective ways of ensuring the survival of our species.

People survive an accident and say, 'God spared us.' Well, what about the other 136 people who died miserably and in flames? It's a selective use of data and is not only not scientific, it's really anti-scientific. It's superstition.

People can afford to be more selective about what they want to view, and many home entertainment systems are now the presentational equal of what you'd get in a movie theater -- and environmentally superior, without the talking neighbors, strangers' cell phones and sticky floors.

People are very selective right now about how they are choosing to spend their discretionary income.