Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laurie Metcalf

One of the hardest things about directing is just to be patient and remind yourself that you've been in Week 1 of a rehearsal process yourself, and you know what it feels like.

Rick Rubin

We felt Johnny's presence during the whole process through to the end. It felt like he was directing the proceedings, and I know that the musicians all felt that as well... More than once, Fergie and I would look at each other and say 'Johnny would love this,' because it was so good and so different from anything we'd done before, we knew he would be excited by what was happening.

Walter Gossett

There I was, for several hours, directing traffic with a parrot on my shoulder. It was a blast!

Vikram Rohit Shetty

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.

David Fincher

The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.

Joe Cornish

I used to dream about presenting a comedy show and also about directing films.

Steve Buscemi

I've always been interested in character-driven pieces, and my approach to directing is through acting.

Stanley Tucci

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

Mike White

I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell stories.

Alan Ball

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.

Barry Commoner

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

Barry Commoner

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

Barry Commoner

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

Rachel Carson

Those who love and free nature are never alone.

Hanno Langenhoven

Unlimited growth in a finite environment is impossible.

Paul Nolte

We still like the fact that we're in an environment where no matter what happens in the economy, they (pharmaceutical companies) are still going to be doing business.

William Shakespeare

Nature does require her times of preservation.

Charles Dickens

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.

Charles Caleb Colton

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

Charles Spurgeon

When filled with holy truth the mind rests.

Charles Spurgeon

Mind your till, and till your mind.

Charles Spurgeon

Do not try to make the gospel tasteful to carnal minds. Do not hide the offense of the cross, lest you make it of no effect.

Alan Watts

By going out of your mind, you come to your senses

Alan Watts

I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300.

Andrew Ramirez

We were treated very well, and we're doing good, ... We're healthy. As you can see, we're very happy. Mostly happy.

Dan Oziminski

They have a tremendous defense. It was mostly my fault. I let it get to me. I should have slowed it down a little bit.

Chris Klein

It's not like a swap meet. It's mostly new goods.

Ellison Chu

There's a lot of selling. I think it's mostly from China.

John Cordes

South Elgin is a first-year program with mostly sophomores and they struggled. It was all right to have an off night, but I am disappointed we didn't shoot better. Everyone has to pick it up a little.

Mary Roach

I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns.

Cate Blanchett

I've been mostly influenced by experiences in the theater growing up.

John Carr

You mostly come to these things to support other musicians,

Ernie Els

Ernie told her there was no need to wait, as he thought she was ready to turn pro, ... He spoke mostly to Michelle, but also had a word with her dad, whom he told the same thing.