Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Nelson

Sometimes we get lost in seeing the entire forest for the particular trees, but I think we need to pull back and see that this threat of radical terrorists is now being directed not only at us in the homeland, but it is being directed at a source of energy upon which the western industrialized world has become dependent.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

Sometimes people jot down pseudo-code on paper. If that pseudo-code runs directly on their computers, it's best, isn't it? Ruby tries to be like that, like pseudo-code that runs. Python people say that too.

Sathya Baba

Seek out your faults and others' merits. Seeking others' faults is dire sin.

Annalee Newitz

RSS, as a format and an idea, grew directly out of an internet culture that many people online today know nothing about: Usenet.

Igor Ivanov

Russian efforts and the direct efforts of ...(Russian special envoy) Viktor Chernomyrdin have not found the understanding and proper support of NATO leadership,

Richard Jefferson

Right now, the team is struggling, I've struggled. And I think it's a direct correlation.

Prague went with 1,000 feet because we heard that is the direction the state is leaning with their legislation.

San Sebastian is a very friendly festival, ... a place where the distance between directors and the public disappears.

Charles Babbage

Propose to any Englishman any principle or instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it.

Kofi Annan

pushing things toward one direction and issue, which is the inspection teams, while ignoring other related matters such as the questions which require answers.

John Logan

Realistically, it's the great truism that screenwriters are fungible, that at the end of the day a studio is not going to want to fire a movie star. And they're really not going to want to fire a star director because the director has the hand on the tiller of a ship.

These are all positive signs of new energy, new faces, new direction,

The schedule prepared by the directors and sent for confirmation anticipates a launch on the stock market in July.

The rule is a direct reason why the exchange index has risen.

I've seen a marked increase over the last two, three years of violence directed toward staff.

I've talked to a lot of state directors of homeland security, state officials, mayors, heads of big companies, and they all say they don't take it seriously,

I've seen us improve a lot over the last two weeks and hopefully we're going in the right direction and starting to peak at the right time.

Mila Kunis

I've said this before, but after 'That '70s Show' ended, I solely wanted do films that inspire me, and to work with people who make me better. I wanted to just surround myself with people who I think are better than I am, whether they're actors or directors or producers, so that I could learn from them.

Zhang Yimou

I've promised not to direct any films in the next two years so as to make full preparations for the Olympics.

It would be very easy to direct a show with four or five students. But that's not what we're trying to do here.

Edward Lazear

It would be a significant problem and it would move in exactly the wrong direction.

It was ugly. But a win is a win, and hopefully that gets us going in the right direction.

These sides may come in 100 or 200 feet. It's gonna follow a different pattern, different direction, it's not just going to go down the middle like it does now.

Mitt Romney

These scores are a direct result of how hard our students work to prepare for their futures, and prove once more why Massachusetts is nationally recognized for its leadership on education reform.

These directors must be removed as promptly as possible and replaced with truly independent directors who will represent Sovereign and its shareholders' interests first and foremost.

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.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, for me, is everything. Without rhythm, there's no music. Without rhythm, there's no cinema. Without rhythm, there's no architecture.

Steven Soderbergh

Is it inappropriate for the director of 'Ocean's Twelve' to go to Belpre, Ohio?

Damian Lewis

I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts in exactly the same way.

Stanley Tucci

I've directed a film set in the '50s.

Edward James Olmos

I've been in the director's chair for 'Battlestar Galactica' since its first season. I directed the only comedy that's ever been done in Galactica history.

Things are going in the right direction. There's no question in my mind that I can play out here. I'm going to go out (today) and take it one shot at a time, play smart and stay positive.

Things are going in the right direction for us right now. This is our last big tune-up before district February 3 at Lumberton, which has been the district champs for the past 10 years.