Direct Quotes

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish.

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.

Direct the glance of apprehension & inquiry to pure consciousness, in its own absolute Being.

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.

You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some direct route back to Jonathan. But I love him to death. He's like my best friend and my big brother.

The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.

When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.

War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.

I have come to understand that life is too complex and much too short to let amateurs direct the story. I would rather let the Master Storyteller do the writing.

People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.

Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God

I want to direct, write, produce... y'know, I love the entertainment industry

The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.

Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.

My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut.

there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.

Eventually I foresee voting on the Internet, which will lead to much more direct democracy.

Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.

The experience of happiness is a direct means of replenishing life energy and revitalizing the mind.

Your first encounter of the day has a more direct bearing on your attitude for that day than your next five encounters.

I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself.

The most important thing for me is the direct observation of nature in its light-filled existence.

It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth.

Copy is a direct conversation with the consumer.

No reference is truly direct — every reference depends on some kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is.

I've always been a direct guy.

Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge.

My refrigerator is powerful. In fact, it has a direct link to my overall well-being.

You can't really feel the direct change from one president to another versus people closer to you in local elections.

America is not a democracy. I think if your kids understood that - and most people don't. We are a representative republic. We're not a direct democracy.

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.

Direct sales offers the education my rich dad taught: build your own network rather than working for a network.

Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.

Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.

But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself.

So let your deepest desires direct your aim. Set your sights far above the 'reasonable' target. The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire that stirs the heart.

I don't hate being an actor. But if there's a choice, I prefer to direct.

All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.

There is no more direct or honest person than Jim Clapper.

Militarism is in direct competition with people's needs for food, health care, and environmental protection.

Our success is a direct result of knowing how to market a brand and having the right people representing the brand.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed.

Almost anything that you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting.

We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe.

There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.