Dictated Quotes

144 quotes by 132 authors

I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. — Jane Austen
I'm really interested in fashion but at the same time I find it quite competitive. Second-hand stuff leaves you more open to whatever your own… — Sophie Ellis Bextor
Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies. — Theodor Adorno
The thing about fashion - it's like ducks going quack, quack quack. It's being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel… — Sara Blakely
I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by… — Helena Bonham Carter
There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system… — Deepak Chopra
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that they are man… — Christopher Hitchens
The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in the eroded sea coasts a… — Alistair Cooke
If the Qur'an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day. — Christopher Hitchens
Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored Information, by the cells? And… — Albert Claude
I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying… — Tori Amos
Players taught to watch the man with the ball leaves them totally unprepared for the next move, which is always dictated by a player without… — Tommy Docherty
Money is misunderstood. The fact is if you want to be successful - the money will follow you. If you are a doctor, something else… — Frank Lowy
For decades, our dependence on OPEC oil has dictated our national security decisions and tied us up in the Middle East at an incredible price.… — T. Boone Pickens
[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so… — Karl Mannheim
The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always… — Abraham Lincoln
I met many Russians over the years who were convinced my brothers and I were a cabal, pulling strings behind the scenes to shape American… — David Rockefeller
The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and… — Thomas Jefferson
I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see people who wrote… — Alan Keyes

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