Direct Quotes · Page 16

One thing is a fairly simple and straightforward thing. I don't long to direct. I really want to get some good parts.

— Geena Davis

I want to produce my own films, TV shows, maybe direct in the future.

— Caleb McLaughlin

One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word.

— Knut Hamsun

There is a direct correlation between your appreciation of what Christ has done for you and the expression of worship

— Louie Giglio

I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact.

— Andrew Marr

I did direct quite a bit when I was in school, and I directed some television afterwards.

— Lee Unkrich

Manage your mind. When we direct our thoughts and words toward the outcome we most desire, we ignite grace.

— Cheryl Richardson

I do not assume to speak for anyone. I know I speak in direct opposition to the wishes of many by whom…

— Victoria Woodhull

I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow…

— Peter Morgan

Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools works, rioting…

— Cleve Jones

Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing…

— Alex Kapranos

In terms of political things, I think it's important to be more direct in terms of political statements. I think in terms…

— Serj Tankian

Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even…

— Joan Didion

Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and…

— Phyllis McGinley

Laws which legitimize the direct killing of innocent human beings through abortion or euthanasia are in complete opposition to the inviolable right…

— Pope John Paul II

“Power is defined as an ability to do qualitative work with a quantitative passion, backed by a compelling conviction, directed by a…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I hate symbolic art in which the presentation loses all spontaneous movement in order to become a machine, an allegory -- a…

— Luigi Pirandello

Eventually, I think I may end up directing. It would have to be the project where I think that I'm the person…

— James Van Der Beek

And new philosophy calls all in doubt, The element of fire is quite put out; The sun is lost, and the earth,…

— John Donne

I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What…

— Victor Hugo

Prose is not to be read aloud but to oneself alone at night, and it is not quick as poetry but rather…

— Henry Green

“People who are trying to be the best get used to tough evaluations. They get used to high standards. Sometimes the evaluations…

— Bob Rotella

I think there is a kind of laconic Australian leg-pulling sense of humor that is certainly in some of my stories, or…

— Garth Nix

First, we want to have a direct relationship with our customers wherever we can. On open platforms like PC and Android, it's…

— Tim Sweeney

Very little mathematics has direct applications - though fortunately most of it has plenty of indirect ones.

— Gian-Carlo Rota

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

— Francis Ford Coppola

This is the copywriters task: not to create mass desire — but to channel and direct it.

— Eugene Schwartz

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action

— Henry Miller

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

— Karl Marx

I want to make stuff. I want to make movies and direct stuff and produce stuff and write stuff.

— Avan Jogia

I’ve spent something like 17 years working on a theory for which there is essentially no direct experimental support.

— Brian Greene

My intention was always to direct and writing things just became convenient and happened.

— Jeff Baena

Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct

— Marcel Marceau

The angels love us. And it's their assignment. They are direct, pure emissaries for God.

— Doreen Virtue

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

— Noam Chomsky

The depth of learning is in direct relation to the intensity of the experience.

— Robert Monroe

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

— Spider Robinson

When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.

— Patrick Marber

I want to direct, write, produce... y'know, I love the entertainment industry.

— Jason Marsden