Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything.… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The difference between directing film and directing television is so stark simply because TV is a living breathing organism already when you… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing… — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
Nobody should be allowed to create general advertising until he has served his apprenticeship in direct-response — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Parental trust is extremely important in the guidance of adolescent children as they get further and further away from the direct supervision… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
I honestly never wanted to direct. It was only when I started to work on 'Alexander the Great' that I realized I… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
I feel that I have a certain amount of experience and I'm still learning so much. But a director's job is so… — Jason Statham Copy Share Image
To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
I make some movies for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The intelligence and ability of a colored person are in pretty direct proportion to the amount of white blood he has, and… — Madison Grant Copy Share Image
I don't hate being an actor. But if there's a choice, I prefer to direct. — Stephen Chow Copy Share Image
When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
The media are doing this, not because they have a sinister motive, but because they love to feel that they are influencing… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
I made 'Enemy' to prep myself for 'Prisoners.' I had the need to direct something smaller in English before going to Hollywood.… — Denis Villeneuve Copy Share Image
But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem: they might point to the catkins hanging from the empty… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“In many ways he was like America itself, big and strong, full of good intentions, a roll of fat jiggling at his… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
What happened with the opioid epidemic is the Mexican cartels made a very deliberate, corporate decision to undercut the price of opioids.… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
Gideon laughed. "I like to be direct." "Okay," I said. "But I warn you, I like to be evasive, inserutable and generally… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
Donald Trump disproved the notion that there is a direct dollar-for-dollar correlation between how much money you had in your traditional war… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
It is hard to compare cultures without overgeneralizing, but I think a lot of American poetry has an assertiveness - an upbeat… — James Arthur Copy Share Image