Direct Quotes · Page 5

I've always been a direct guy.

— Kool Keith

To have a director's direct feedback is invaluable.

— Masi Oka

Direct threats require decisive action.

— Dick Cheney

Women are complex and subtle. Men are simple and direct.

— Brian Tracy

I don't direct movies for a living.

— Tommy Lee Jones

I'd like to direct some, act in some of them, and produce.

— Corbin Bernsen

I like to direct the same way that I like to be directed.

— Clint Eastwood

Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.

— Dale Carnegie

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

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

— Kyle Chandler

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

— Zoe Kravitz

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Gustave Courbet

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

— Samuel Johnson

I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool…

— Gary Allan

Avon invented the concept of direct marketing and direct selling beauty. And that's still very valid to us. We'll have a firm…

— Andrea Jung

My real passion is to make movies, to direct. It's good for my ego to be an actress. It's like someone is…

— Maiwenn

There's nothing more daunting than a musical, but there's also no more direct line to joy. Getting there, though, is like pushing…

— Tim Curry

The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence…

— Antonin Scalia

I think that what is important is that the music be honest and direct and that it is relevant to today. I…

— Dave Holland

Sometimes being let down my a human being is the direct cause for you finding your own strength & depending only on Allah.

— Omar Suleiman

The Net is not television. It is the finest direct-marketing mechanism in the history of mankind. It is direct mail with free…

— Seth Godin

I know what its like to direct. You become a more considerate actor. After you have directed, you understand what is going…

— Dolph Lundgren

And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are…

— Felix Mendelssohn

The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me,…

— Nadine Gordimer

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation, neither are they transmitted by book learning.…

— Ezra Pound

Don’t touch me. It makes my skin crawl. (Grace) Grace! I can’t believe you– (Selena) At least she didn’t spit in my…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in…

— Gaston Bachelard

Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what…

— Olivier Theyskens

To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The…

— Berenice Abbott

I guess actors don't like to direct each other.

— Peter Jacobson

What I am is a direct result of how I was raised.

— Troy Aikman

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart

— Vanessa Carlton

Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can.

— Charles Darwin

You don't direct ostriches, you herd them.

— Shelley Duvall

Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.

— Frank Langella

You can't direct without a good crew.

— Louis C. K

I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.

— Andy Serkis