I have a position of indirect respect and oblique power.

The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean…

— John Searle

I take a lot of inspiration from the nature of the universe and visualize my work as a direct or indirect reflection of life,…

— Jeet Aulakh

Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay for the…

— Charles Tilly

Writing fiction, for me, is a more indirect form of self-exploration than writing verse. When I'm working on a novel I'm moving characters around…

— Nick Laird

A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our knowledge or to experience is directand…

— Chauncey Wright

The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of…

— Carl Sagan

...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances.

— Rene Dubos

Sometimes indirect style and varying chronology is great, but quite often I've seen it be just something that gets in the way. It turns…

— Alice Mattison

I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. In…

— Sun Tzu

Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you --…

— John Wayne

In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory.

— Sun Tzu

We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If…

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means.

— Bertha von Suttner

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of…

— Louis Pasteur