Direct Quotes · Page 21

I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.

— Tavi Gevinson

You know, sometimes the most direct route isn't the right one. - Jacob

— Anonymous

I do think that, as an advocate for myself on set, I'm very direct.

— Stephanie Beatriz

President Donald Trump is a direct and serious threat to our country.

— Rashida Tlaib

The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

— Adam Smith

I had written a script called 'Freed,' which I had wanted to direct.

— Dan Gilroy

I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.

— Quentin Tarantino

I'm going to be direct with the players. If they don't like it, then I'm sorry.

— David Moyes

The original plan was that James Wan would direct the pilot [of MacGyver ] but it didn't work out, and then it…

— Lucas Till

I actually don't like hip hop much; the music is too clichéd, the subculture, especially the macho strutting of gangsta rappers, isn't…

— Shahin Najafi

What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word 'quality' cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not…

— Robert M. Pirsig

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and…

— William Dean Howells

Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best…

— John Wooden

When I write something, it's usually 'cause I think it's funny or I have a way in, but when I direct something,…

— Nicholas Stoller

It is the direct man who strikes sledgehammer blows, who penetrates the very marrow of a subject at every stroke and gets…

— Orison S. Marden

I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that…

— Ranbir Kapoor

There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.…

— Sun Tzu

You may say, "I wish to send this ball so as to kill the lion crouching yonder, ready to spring upon me.…

— Henry Ward Beecher

However, today due to civil litigation funded by cults this option for families has been eliminated. Instead, the only form of cult…

— Rick Ross

An image is a bridge between evoked emotion and conscious knowledge; words are the cables that hold up the bridge. Images are…

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical in self-regulatory activities of all…

— Paul Tough

All other passions build upon or flow from your passion for Jesus. A passion for souls grows out of a passion for…

— Wesley L Duewel

I am incapable of directing a film like 'Agneenath.' I can do only what I am good at, so I would have…

— Karan Johar

Two things made this country great: White men & Christianity. The degree these two have diminished is in direct proportion to the…

— Don Davis

What I think works for Fox News is we have a very direct form of communication.

— Roger Ailes

I am a very personal writer. I write direct to the reader. I don't hold back.

— Ruskin Bond

A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.

— Anonymous

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.

— Theodore Parker

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

— Tommy Bolin

I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.

— Erica Jong

I have enjoyed every call. The ones involving direct contact with people have been most rewarding.

— L. Lionel Kendrick

I think I'd be too scared to direct my first movie and put myself in the center.

— Joel Edgerton

I very rarely made any move to direct anything. I didn't have any faith in myself.

— Judd Apatow

Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.

— Barbra Streisand

Once a citizen receives a direct payment from the state, the state has purchased their complicity

— Charles Hugh Smith

Ultimately, what may be needed to address the obesity problem are direct taxes on body weight.

— Jonathan Gruber

It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain.

— Jules Verne

I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.

— Bev Perdue

Hunger is almost like something the West does. It's almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.

— Bill Nighy

Direct navigation traffic is by far the most highly targeted form of web traffic available.

— Marc Ostrofsky