Raymond Hull quote: "I have noticed that, with few exceptions, men bungle their affairs. Everywhere I see incompetence rampant, incompetence triumphant...I have accepted the universality of incompetence."

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.
RAYMOND HULL

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
RAYMOND HULL

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
RAYMOND HULL

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
RAYMOND HULL

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
DR LAURENCE PETER AND RAYMOND HULL

Every good citizen should be willing to devote a brief time during some one day in the year, when ne...
CORDELL HULL

I was kind of smart enough when I was young, 14 or 15 years old, to realize that if you're ever ...
BRETT HULL

I'm at a loss for words. They're a nice solid team, they played a good game. It's been a good season...
ADRIAN HULL

We lost a couple going into that first game. We got confused. This time we held our heads high.
ADRIAN HULL

I've been sitting waiting the whole year. Since ninth grade I wondered what I'd do after high school...
ADRIAN HULL

We came out slow tonight. But we're 3-0 in district and we gotta a lot of good things to look forwar...
ADRIAN HULL

Never insult an alligator until you've crossed the river.
CORDELL HULL

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.
BOBBY HULL

Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installm...
BOBBY HULL

Playing Shakespeare is really tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're the king.
JOSEPHINE HULL

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.
CORDELL HULL

Alan White and I spent the next two or three years working together on this. We developed what is kn...
JOHN HULL

Don't worry what people say or what people think. Be yourself.
BRETT HULL

Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an...
ANNE HULL

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of deat...
WILLIAM HULL

In the interest rate area, traders have for a long time used a version of what is known as Black'...
JOHN HULL

Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the...
CORDELL HULL

I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.
BRETT HULL

I'm also not going to cut my nose off to spite my face, because I also know that-without sounding eg...
BRETT HULL

I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.
BRETT HULL

This is the team that took me when probably no one else was interested. Maybe there were other teams...
BRETT HULL

Sometimes guys need to cry. Some hockey players think they're too tough to cry.
BRETT HULL

When I left, I got on the bus to go to Tokyo with Chris Chelios and Gary Suter and some of the guys,...
BRETT HULL

Keep it out of the middle of the field, take it up the sidelines as far as you can and then shoot it...
BRETT HULL

That was special, ... I know what my dad meant to the game.
BRETT HULL

Scoring a goal is a euphoric feeling-and it's not so much the puck going in. It's the reaction from ...
BRETT HULL

Anything that's signed by me on EBay is a forgery and not authentic.
BRETT HULL

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.
BRETT HULL

I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commiss...
BOBBY HULL

All I've done all my life is just tried to better the game for our players and for those people watc...
BOBBY HULL

First and foremost it's important that we're able to put something back in the game, which we have a...
BOBBY HULL

They'll put themselves back 20 years, ... If they think they can successfully ice 30 teams in the ma...
BOBBY HULL

I thought it was a joke, I pretended to go along with it, just to scare Chicago. Then my agent said,...
BOBBY HULL

Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dre...
BOBBY HULL

My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in ...
BOBBY HULL

If I told you that the big contract had nothing to do with my signing, I'd be lying. It made the fut...
BOBBY HULL

It's more than music. It takes you to a different place.
BRAD HULL

[Working on this project has] been so cool because those guys (Deere and Truman) are our heroes. The...
BRAD HULL

When I first got to the bottom, I could see a little sunlight from the surface. But as soon as I sta...
BRAD HULL

When I first got to the bottom, I could see a little sunlight from the surface, ... But as soon as I...
BRAD HULL

I've said for years I could never figure out why Calgary ever drafted me. When I got there, I th...
BRETT HULL

When interest rates are high you want the average direction in which interest rates are moving to be...
JOHN HULL

Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society.
DAVID HULL

I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commiss...
BOBBY HULL

We concluded that you cannot rely on delta hedging alone. It sounds simplistic to say that now, but ...
JOHN HULL

There are challenges in terms of the measurement of VAR for what are known as nonlinear derivatives,...
JOHN HULL

I didn't become interested in derivatives until 1982, 1983.
JOHN HULL

I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie.
BRAD HULL

Do I catch flak because I'm so much smarter than everyone else? I don't know.
BRETT HULL

If you get the seventh goal in a 7-0 game, big deal. But any goal has meaning, you know, even if it'...
BRETT HULL

You can't get big in hockey. You need to be pliable... they've even taken fighting out of the game, ...
BRETT HULL

When my dad was playing in Winnipeg in '72-I was about 8 years old-he took me to my first outdoor ri...
BRETT HULL

I see myself playing as long as I am partially enjoying the game and partially successful and they a...
BRETT HULL

I have an idea, an area where I think I want it to go. It's too hard to get too specific, so I know ...
BRETT HULL

I know who you are. You wrote a book about my dad.
BRETT HULL

But I'll tell you what . . . I wouldn't put Al second to anyone.
BRETT HULL

I'm certainly not going to consider myself one of the top five greatest players ever.
BRETT HULL

I'm one of the guys who's about to go to the Senior Tour.
BRETT HULL

I'm known as a winner now.
BRETT HULL

He loves to watch you put the puck in the net. I never asked him why he didn't want to score more hi...
BRETT HULL

I realized I wasn't who I thought I was, ... I wasn't Brett Hull at 30 or 35 even. I was 41 years ol...
BRETT HULL

I was telling him (Sunday) night, he's probably Coach of the Year. Coming into a new situation with ...
BRETT HULL

Anyone who thinks that is out of their mind.
BRETT HULL

There's an old expression, and I don't know who said it 'The mind is willing but the body isn't,'
BRETT HULL

I wish no one had to do this, 'cause it's hard to think that you're never ever going to grow older, ...
BRETT HULL

I just thank everyone who ever touched my life in the game.
BRETT HULL

At my age, if there is an extended period of time that we're locked out, I don't think I'd be able t...
BRETT HULL

I want him to be that special guy he was when he played,
BRETT HULL

There's no one more competitive, ... He's the ultimate champion and competitor. He's going to have t...
BRETT HULL

I think everyone has underestimated how intimidated players are reacting to Wayne being (a coach),
BRETT HULL

I'm scared to death to fly commercial... I have not flown commercial since 9/11.
BRETT HULL

I've committed myself to be this type of player. Bitch and moan as I may, I've committed myself to i...
BRETT HULL

Within a few weeks the organization for the maintenance of international peace and security, establi...
CORDELL HULL

Briefly speaking, our conclusion is that stochastic volatility does not make a huge difference as fa...
JOHN HULL

Creating a SID is a long and complex process, and the most difficult step is getting super-majority ...
DAVID HULL

You have to know how to score.
BRETT HULL

That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying...
CORDELL HULL

When I was in the record store with Sean Avery helping him look for CDs, I pulled out Tapestry. He w...
BRETT HULL

He really didn't get serious until the eighth grade. I was afraid of some burnout. I'm so involved i...
GREG HULL

Playing Shakespeare is so tiring. You never get a chance to sit down unless you're a king.
JOSEPHINE HULL

Sometimes guys need to cry. Some hockey players think they're too tough to cry.
BRETT HULL

I remember on that occasion, Roz invited a group of friends to gather around a festive table for a m...
W. HULL

Hey, I just don't want to go to the dentist. And come on, everyone is vain.
BRETT HULL

Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance,...
BOBBY HULL

One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is a...
WILLIAM HULL

Sir, the object of the Flagg, which crossed the River, was to propose a cessation of hostilities for...
WILLIAM HULL

We are asking why this happened and look for ways to improve, ... When I was a teacher in the classr...
WILLIAM HULL

It's done on a very small scale. That is definitely not quite mainstream yet.
DREW HULL

Because our task is not to outnumber the Methodists but to win the world-a world in which every day ...
WILLIAM HULL

I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will end...
CORDELL HULL

If we were to follow the format of Edith's memorial service, we would be here until next Wednesday,
W. HULL

It helps us out quite a bit. As you know, February is a quiet month for Myrtle Beach. The golfers ha...
CINDY HULL

We lost a giant of the conservation movement when Gaylord died a few years ago, but his legacy lives...
DIANA HULL

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river
CORDELL HULL

You think you are invincible, and then all of a sudden you think you are useless. It's the worst fee...
BRETT HULL

Many consumers are calling for live TV and lower pricing before they'll start watching video on the ...
DREW HULL

Hockey is its own game. It's completely different than all the other games, although it's getting wa...
BRETT HULL

I'm not done yet making people miserable. If they're going to make me miserable, then I'm going to m...
BRETT HULL

If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight an...
BRETT HULL

In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a capt...
WILLIAM HULL

I've KO'd a lot of guys verbally. I've got one of the most vicious knockout punches with the tongue ...
BRETT HULL

We're a small town here in Upper Bucks. If (council) can keep the taxation and services at a reasona...
JAMES HULL

I didn't like the '50s, you know. I appreciate Elvis, but I'm not a big fan. I'm not a rockabilly fa...
BRETT HULL

Every morning began with Roz getting her mother up, dressed and in a wheelchair, then going off to t...
W. HULL

You can't get big in hockey. You need to be pliable... they've even taken fighting out of th...
BRETT HULL

On one hand, we've got to get all these new teachers up to speed regarding our institutions policies...
WILLIAM HULL

Many of the present teachers began working in the 1960s when there was a teaching shortage, ... Now ...
WILLIAM HULL

If we taught children to speak, they'd never learn.
WILLIAM HULL

We will never prevent environmental degradation until we stabilize our population. We simply must fa...
DIANA HULL

Unlike 1970, most of the population growth in the United States today, and especially in California,...
DIANA HULL

The consequences of that growth are all around us -? loss of open space, traffic congestion, and nev...
DIANA HULL

So many of our problems are made much worse by this huge flow of illegal immigration. Overcrowded ho...
DIANA HULL

They have no right to own property in the United States because they have no right to be here in the...
DIANA HULL

This bill is far from complete, but it is an important first step in gaining control of our border a...
DIANA HULL

Congress is finally starting to respond to the demands of the American public that illegal immigrati...
DIANA HULL

I think it's been a jolt of reality for coaches on what they have to do in practice to prepare for g...
BRETT HULL

I don't want to make a big thing out of it, but I know if I was in that situation I would have known...
BRETT HULL

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of ene...
CORDELL HULL

They have great guards who hustle and scrap.
GARY HULL

I'm realistic. And realistically, I'm not that type of player that earns that type of money ...
BRETT HULL

I guess any simple idea that is really good will catch on quickly.
JOHN HULL

And they deserve to live, but I think if we have high populations of people we should control the hi...
DAVID HULL

We're looking forward to hearing what people have to say.
DAVID HULL

It's a combination of new service hours and taking existing hours that aren't very productive and mo...
DAVID HULL

The businesses in this area are very good about supporting our efforts because it benefits them as w...
DAVID HULL

All of the pieces, or different tasks (in the grant), are all things that are going to help us do a ...
DAVID HULL

It probably grew up here. It hasn't bothered anybody.
DAVID HULL

important (research) primary materials.
DAVID HULL

The real challenge was to model all the interest rates simultaneously, so you could value something ...
JOHN HULL

Because of our convention business, it is not a huge big difference [in regular and summer employmen...
CINDY HULL

Any price is negotiable. We've had the listing about a year, which is not a long time in the big boa...
GERRY HULL

We continue to receive calls from all over the world [about the Victory Chimes].
GERRY HULL

He's kind of a late bloomer, physically.
GREG HULL

Security continues to be a top priority for America's public transportation systems and transit syst...
GREG HULL

As far as I know, it's the only large-scale systems integration initiative [of its sort] in the coun...
GREG HULL

Transit systems across the country have found that the level of crime committed on transit property,...
GREG HULL

Six of the seven have been contacted, and all are well.
HARRY HULL

Six of the seven have been contacted, and all are well. Our best strategy [right now in Minnesota] i...
HARRY HULL

However, these cases do serve to underscore the importance of making sure your immunizations are up ...
HARRY HULL

For the general community in Canada, I would say that this is a reminder of the importance of keepin...
HARRY HULL

Some people are very open, some people want to think about it, some people just say no.
HARRY HULL

We will continue to follow up directly with people who may have been exposed to the virus.
HARRY HULL

Essentially we have been going house to house talking with them about the risk, offering the vaccine...
HARRY HULL

Because they're out there in the rest of the world and they can come back into our countries where t...
HARRY HULL

I thought the rest of their kids stepped up and played with a lot of focus.
GARY HULL

We felt like we had to come out strong. This is a tough place to play.
GARY HULL

(Post Chad Beecroft) and (Brenner) were phenomenal. They just did the extra things, got the loose ba...
GARY HULL

We see it all the time. I'm just disappointed with some of our attitudes, complaining about not gett...
GARY HULL

Premium services for mobile phones have only recently become big business, but video has a way to go...
DREW HULL

You hear people say that short codes will be tomorrow's URL.
DREW HULL

We still see the dominance of rap, R&B, alternative punk, and pop. But we are definitely seeing grow...
DREW HULL

I think we've got a great young lady here.
JAMES HULL

Hopefully, you'll watch this tree. As you grow, it'll grow.
JAMES HULL

Loggers are working in perilous conditions, to say the least.
JAMES HULL

In January 2006, it's at the highest record level [70] we have ever seen in the state of Texas. Ordi...
JAMES HULL

Now we're in this dry cycle, and quite frankly, Texans have forgotten how to deal with it. While we ...
JAMES HULL

The Coast Guard has a long history of operating jointly with the Department of Defense forces in mat...
JAMES HULL

In total, about 600 Coast Guard active duty and reservists will be deploying from the Atlantic Area ...
JAMES HULL

[34th over: England 146-2 (Vaughan 23, Bell 3) Kasprowicz bowls his ninth, and Australia's 20th, no ...
JAMES HULL

There are so many unbelievable words... But that doesn't mean I have a favorite word.
BRETT HULL

Nurses are with patients 10-12 hours per day giving old-fashioned care. This is a chance to say than...
KATHY HULL

There's nothing like a personal story to bring home how important the work is that you do. It's easy...
KATHY HULL

This is a huge step in the right direction. We can now start planning and making sure the site is ap...
KATHY HULL

I think it would behoove the town to acquire the property and continue to look at its potential.
KATHY HULL

They have glassed sliding doors. That affords privacy for the patient as well as allows for a crying...
KATHY HULL

It's not any further to park on the west side of the lot and come to the middle door than it is to p...
KATHY HULL

Pretty much anybody could walk in off the street and they were in the emergency room. Now there is a...
KATHY HULL

He was very overbearing and demanding. He was making some enemies. I know that.
JOAN HULL

I'm quite shocked. I can't believe it's true.
JOAN HULL

It will be difficult because there isn't a large availability of hotel space near Showplace. And we ...
MAURICE HULL

We've been deeply involved in the International Home Furnishings Market for many years, and we're co...
MAURICE HULL

We're looking forward to working with other local showroom owners to promote the continued success o...
MAURICE HULL

We're very excited about this project because it's really the first of its kind, the first major non...
RANDY HULL

Someone talked to the sheriff's department here in the county, and they said they would help. I was ...
NANCY HULL

We've gotten a great effort every single night. They say coaches lose the close games. I must be mis...
SCOTT HULL

We are hear to celebrate, and I mean celebrate, the unique and wonderful life of Rosamond McPherson ...
W. HULL

I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years...
RAYMOND BURR

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right butto...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Successful people understand the value of time. Once they commit to doing something, they would neve...
RAYMOND ARROYO

If the speaker won't boil it down, the audience must sweat it out.
RAYMOND DUNCAN

I fell into acting by going to a callback for J.C. Penney with my two older brothers when I was 4 1/...
RAYMOND OCHOA

I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

It is not a fragrant world.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise stateme...
RAYMOND SMULLYAN

I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have...
RAYMOND CARVER

Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.
RAYMOND CARVER

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.
RAYMOND HITCHCOCK

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else --and failing.
RAYMOND RADIGUET

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.
RAYMOND HITCHCOCK

The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated pe...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause...
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL

You must see first before you can believe.
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL

I have noticed that, with few exceptions, men bungle their affairs. Everywhere I see incompetence rampant, incompetence triumphant...I have accepted the universality of incompetence.

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Raymond Hull

I have noticed that, with few exceptions, men bungle their affairs. Everywhere I see incompetence rampant, incompetence triumphant...I have accepted the universality of incompetence.

Raymond Hull

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