Best 182 quotes in «direct quotes» category

It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker.

I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.

It should not be harder for our daughters to direct than our sons. It should be an equal playing field.

It was never my direct intention to do anything particularly medium-defying.

It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track.

I've always said that movies are a direct mirror of the director.

I want to be in 'Funny Girl.' And I want Ryan Murphy to direct it.

I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.

I want to direct. Definitely a goal of mine.

I would like to remain an actress, but am very anxious to direct and produce.

I would love to direct a feature and have Robert Connolly produce it. That would be really fab.

I was surprised to find out there was a direct line from my palm to my, my, hootchie.

I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.

Knowledge is the eye which must direct the foot of obedience.

I wouldn't want to direct. I see how much work it is.

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

Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have.

Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can.

Patience is the direct antithesis of anger.

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

Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.

Our mothers are our most direct connection to our history and gender.

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces.

Of course, the strippers also take pains not to appear too innocent, valorous, or bookishly inclined. (In direct opposition to the Swayze Mandate of 1987, everybody puts Baby in a goddamn corner.)

Often intuition will direct you. If it feels right, it's probably right.

Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service.

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

She didn't look at me and I didn't look at her. Some questions are so direct the only way to ask them is sideways.

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

Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself.

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

She has learned that her body is precious and it mustn't be offered carelessly ever again, as it holds a direct connection to her heart.

Some people say it's scarier to direct the people you work with; not me, I'm a team guy.

Simply put, the direct power over the money supply is the indirect power over the people.

The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word.

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great theater exercise.

The depth of learning is in direct relation to the intensity of the experience.

The only way to improve a trick is to find a simpler and more direct way of doing it.

The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

The fashion industry now has a direct relationship with its customers. Thanks to things like Twitter, ideas can be shared and circulated.

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct it.

The other thing being at UCLA was just being in California and around the movie business. Which I honestly believe, and I've told this to screenwriters, you have to do. You have to be there in order to write or direct movies.

The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.

The power to hurt ... has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement.

There is a direct relationship between self-discipline and self-esteem.

There is a direct correlation between education, stable families and incarceration and crime.

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