Direct Quotes · Page 29

The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system.

— Noam Chomsky

I have been directing ads and videos for quite some time. And I wanted to direct films.

— Divya Khosla Kumar

Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.

— James H. Austin

Banks need to have large shareholders on the board that have a direct interest in their performance.

— Mian Muhammad Mansha

I'd quite like to direct. I don't think it will happen, but my urge is that way inclined.

— Kate Fleetwood

I can direct dial today a man my parents warred with. They wanted to kill him, I want to sell software to…

— Brad Templeton

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

— Gustave Courbet

I like photography and I write; I also write music. One day I would like to direct [films] as well.

— Zoe Kravitz

...any effect to be successful must first be founded upon a simple method and then be performed with a direct to-the-point presentation.

— Theodore Annemann

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

— Eknath Easwaran

I really wanted to believe that there were these magic celestial bodies that would direct my life, tell me what to do,…

— Lauren Beukes

What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited.…

— Thomas Carlyle

“Direct and easy communications—freedom of speech in all forms and its broadest sense—has become vital to the very survival of a civilized…

— Anonymous

The fashion industry now has a direct relationship with its customers. Thanks to things like Twitter, ideas can be shared and circulated.

— Stefano Gabbana

I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is…

— Michael Faraday

Not that the moderns are born with more wit than their predecessors, but, finding the world better furnished at their coming into…

— Jeremy Collier

Look, therefore, which way we will, whether at the direct Scriptural statements of death as the penalty of sin, or at the…

— Herrick Johnson

The people have only a very vague direct power. They have the power of voting against the administration, again after its decisions…

— Walter Millis

Lord Krishna... proclaims Self-realization, true wisdom, as the highest branch of all human knowledge-the king of all sciences, the very essence of…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Singing in second language makes you brave in a way you're not aware of. You say things in very blunt ways or…

— Anna Ternheim

I'm trying to avoid any more asshole roles, at least for a little bit. The main criteria for me when choosing a…

— Dave Franco

The team you belong to must come ahead of the team you lead: this is putting team results (e.g., organizational needs) ahead…

— Patrick Lencioni

there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the…

— James Madison

I think it's really cool that videogames are getting more and more sophisticated and believable, and that people who worked on movies…

— Mark Walton

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I don't want to say I'm never going to direct again, but directing's hard work.

— Kyle Chandler

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

— James Allen

As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.

— Samuel Johnson

I definitely want to record an album, direct a film and start my own religion.

— Robert Pattinson

Direct sales offers the education my rich dad taught: build your own network rather than working for a network.

— Robert Kiyosaki

The last thing I want is to be (in a film role) is obvious, direct and offensive.

— Bill Murray

Listen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct.

— Paula Malcomson

There's a direct link between percentage of young people that are educated and how we live our lives.

— Jeb Bush

Sookie," Eric said. I didn't think he'd heard a word. "Yield to me." Well, that was pretty direct.

— Charlaine Harris

I direct, and I make movies I can't finance. I can't raise money. I can't sell anything. I make things.

— Abel Ferrara

The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act.

— John Malkovich

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence.

— Tom Landry

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

— Samantha Morton

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

— Terry Tempest Williams

Most people's lives are a direct reflection of their peer groups.

— Tony Robbins