John Casey Quotations

I don't kid myself into thinking I'm the reason people are there.

carefully consider the submarine design construction life cycle support capabilities inherent with Electric Boat and the unique synergy between Electric Boat and New London Submarine Base....

I have an occasionally recurring stutter, but not when in character on stage in a play. Odd. James Earl Jones has the same pattern; he stutters in everyday life but not when acting. Preparation requires an actor's concentration to make the words belong to another person, which is its own sort of trance.

I went to a party recently that some of the students gave, ... and I sat around, trying to keep quiet for the first hour. And finally some of them said to me, 'What was it like 30 years ago'? And I started telling a few things that happened and I realized that was a complete mistake. They just sort of hung their heads and said, 'God, we're so dull.'

Jenny was the emcee. Marty would come out playing a plastic banjo, and they would do stage plays.

When I was 23 and about to go to law school, I thought I'd spend the summer writing a novel.

We're delighted to have this relationship with a not-for-profit health care network that has been serving the Rio Grande Valley so well for 80 years.

We can all agree this was a tragedy that occurred, and we all wish we could take it back.

We are not proposing that the Navy buy more submarines than they are currently planning. What we are proposing is to buy them in a more cost-effective manner.

We plan to stay here for a while, yes ma'am.

We'd like to make parents aware of the signs of gangs and gang activities.

Writing is rewriting; rewriting is writing - from the first crossed-out word in the first sentence to the last word inserted above a caret, that most helpful handwritten stroke.

We have been forced to reduce our production workforce by several thousand people.

Drive safe. Obey the speed limit signs. We do all we can to keep it safe ? they should try to make it safe for us.

It's 90 percent boredom and 10 percent sheer terror.

It wasn't a night on the town. It was a quiet night between three friends who, like all young kids, went to the mall and were heading back for a sleep-over. In just a second, all their lives changed.

In order to build those in some sort of modular fashion, we have to have extremely tight dimensional control, where we align sonar spheres and components to within 1/32nd of an inch to the ship's centerline before the ship's centerline even exists, so we can bring components together from three separate facilities,

Beekeepers are public servants in a way, and people don't realize it. Without bees, there would be a lot less inadvertent pollination. This is just another form of agriculture, and a lot of people don't realize that, either.

Beekeepers are public servants in a way, and people don't realize it, ... Without bees, there would be a lot less inadvertent pollination. This is just another form of agriculture, and a lot of people don't realize that, either.

You want to show some dominance in the beginning. The first day really establishes the pecking order in the fleet.