Online, you show how brilliant you are by manipulating the…

The language of the internet is English, and an overwhelming proportion of the global computer chatter also originates from America, influencing the content of…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when…

— Walter Kirn

We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the…

— Mark Pagel

Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked…

— David Cronenberg

In Britain, the big supermarkets dominate our food chain. British supermarkets are some of the best in the world at controlling, manipulating and delivering…

— Arthur Potts Dawson

I'm sure in a lot of publishing houses that there is a frustration that people feel, that they're not in control, that they are…

— Larry Kirshbaum

Late 19th-century populists saw bankers and industrialists manipulating markets to enrich themselves at the expense of small farmers and labourers and favoured political candidates…

— Robert Dallek

Manipulating people, that's what I'm good at

— Madonna Ciccone

I remembered watching the film from Alfred Hitchcock, 'Dial M for Murder,' and he shot almost all of that movie in one room. There…

— Dario Argento

“Everyone likes the manipulative assholes after they’ve had a chance to do their manipulating.”

— wildbow

“Why on earth had I agreed to this? Oh, that's right. He suckered me into it with his manipulating words and those damn dimples.”

— Ella Frank

The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.

— John Smith

No, I wouldn't direct a movie, no. I couldn't. I don't have the patience for it, I don't have the people skills. You have…

— Nick Cave

One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if…

— Walter Murch

My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that…

— Walter Murch