Direct Quotes

I don't want to get too nuanced, but we have the electoral college in the United States and that means we don't have direct democracy.

There is an overwhelming mass of authentic evidence which can be cited as: direct observation, indirect observation, and supporting evidence or indication.

Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.

People think I'm really melancholy and romantic and all whispery. I'm not at all. I'm very direct.

It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.

Enlightenment is a direct experience with reality.

I always wanted to direct. Directing is a lot more of a commitment though, a lot more time. I like directors who do very few takes, they know what they want.

I've never had a "hankering" to direct. I can perform, but I can't write on that level. I tend to go off on tangents. Directing also requires a kind of specificity and I don't have it.

O Jesus, my Divine Saviour, I offer You my mind and heart. Direct their movements while I pray, so that I may offer my prayer in union with Your Immaculate Mother.

I think we all live dichotomies. I'm a father of three boys and a loyal homebody sort of husband and father. And yet I act in movies and write and direct movies.

I don't direct movies for a living.

I'm impossible to direct. I couldn't get myself to do anything.

I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.

I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way.

danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of direct confrontation, you are immortal.

The new update of 2014-2015 is, of course, the attack of ISIS. But this is rooted in recent history. It is the direct result of all the politics that came into Iraq with the occupation.

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.

It's astonishing how many people who direct action don't know how to tell a story.

Consider Brazilian cosmetics brand Natura, which deploys a direct-sales force of more than 718,000. By knocking on doors, it has established a vibrant network of brand supporters.

I would like to direct.

When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.

The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.

My job is going to be to direct the film - I'm going to do it. And that's where my job ends.

With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.

If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.

I think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship.

All jobs are created in direct proportion to the amount of capital employed.

In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.

To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them ("les orienter", Fr.) in a new spirit.

I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.

What now does the divine immanence mean in direct Christian experience? It means simply that God is here. Wherever we are, God is here. Ther eis no place, there can be no place, where He is not.

Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.

Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.

It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare.

I would absolutely refuse any direct or indirect war service and would try to persuade my friends to do the same, regardless of the reasons for the cause of a war.

Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.

Warren [Beatty] was very adamant and very encouraging of me to direct. It's definitely something that I'd like to pursue more in the future.

Politics imagined as direct agency, whether by voting or by participating in politics, you can think you're not political because you don't do anything between elections.

Apart from direct mistakes, there is nothing more ruinous than routine play, the aim of which is mechanical development.

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.

I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.

Representative democracy betrays the electorate when laws have no roots in the people but in oligarchies. Studies on the concept and modalities of direct democracy are therefore becoming more topical

When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice.

The exchange of words is a lot like a virtual handshake. Is the writer's grasp of the language strong and bold? Are the words gripping? Direct? Inventive? Sincere?

One of my problems is that I'm very honest and direct. You pay a price for that.

Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.

I moved to L.A. to write and direct. I had no intentions of being in front of the camera.

Being from the Midwest, I would say that I like that East Coast mentality, it's more direct. What you see is what you get.

I think what's happening in Hollywood is a direct reflection of what's happening in the world right now.