Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will…

— Michel de Montaigne

“when confronted with a destructive outcome that is clearly their doing, they will say, plain and simple, “I never did that,” and will to…

— Martha Stout

It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; It appears…

— Charles Darwin

If you tell a lie, tell a big one.

— Joseph Goebbels

Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

— Mark Twain

I understand the formula that producers hire directors and directors are hired to direct and actors are hired to act. I don't have any…

— Danny Trejo

If you take all the food aid, America is by far the most generous country. If you take the direct aid, we're very generous.…

— George W. Bush

There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine.…

— Dorothy Parker

By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It becomes something…

— Talib Kweli

I'm currently trying to direct my own material.

— Tom Skerritt

The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from…

— Carl Sagan

A place has almost the shyness of a person, with strangers; and its secret is not to be surprised by a too direct interrogation.

— Arthur Symons

The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.

— Stanley Smith Stevens

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing…

— John Ford

One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,…

— Anonymous