Direct Quotes · Page 39

I've watched directors since my very first day of acting because I knew I wanted to direct.

— Austin Nichols

What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...

— Walter Lippmann

I was thinking maybe about being a lawyer. I realized I was interested in becoming a priest at one point. I was…

— John C. Reilly

“The volume of your impacts is measured by the direction of your movements, the passion with which you inspire and the attitudes…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I want to be able to say, 'you think you're odd, I'm even odder and I made it - you can too!'…

— Laurieann Gibson

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

— Charles Hugh Smith

The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a…

— Fernando Pessoa

We don't read people's wishes. The wishes are suppose to be direct communication to the Universe. Your interception will weaken the power…

— Yoko Ono

Adrienne [ Shelly] had 100 per cent control over this movie [ Waitress] as a director. She didn't just write it, direct…

— Keri Russell

I hope to direct a few more films before I leave the planet, so I hope I can find the material.

— Ed Harris

Persons drinking coffee, as a general rule, eat less, though coffee, and also tea, have little direct food value; but they retard…

— Maria Parloa

Your assumptions about the lives of others are in direct relation to your naïve pomposity. Many people you believe to be rich…

— Cheryl Strayed

A movie is a creative process from its conception, through its writing, to its execution, to the editing. I think with the…

— Simon Pegg

I never thought I wanted to direct. I love the control of it. I love to dream of scenes.

— Salli Richardson

A man develops a subtle power as a result of the strict observance of celibacy for twelve years. Then he can understand…

— Ramakrishna

All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections,…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

As I said, this [repercussions] may take different forms : direct and indirect. Direct when people want to retaliate, or governments. Indirect…

— Bashar al-Assad

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

— Florence Griffith Joyner

Yes, I definitely plan to direct at some point.

— Stephen Dorff

But on top of all that, the feelings about Princess, I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my…

— Jack Kerouac

Oh, God, give me grace for this day. Not for a lifetime, nor for next week, nor for tomorrow, just for this…

— Marjorie Holmes

I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and,…

— John Ford

“Patience is the direct antithesis of anger.”

— Allan Lokos

The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself...Almost inevitably, he comes…

— HL Mencken America Writer

The Scripture can only be read intelligently by inspired men and women. The value we get from our reading is in direct…

— G. Campbell Morgan