Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Farina

Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.

Brion James

Larry Kasdan is a great director.

We've seen our vehicle donation drop by over 40 percent this year, and it's all a direct result of the tax law change.

The fact a one-page paper has generated this level of discussion underscores the paucity of direct scientific information that exists on the effects of management intervention following natural disturbances.

D. B. Sweeney

The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.

Jacques Chirac

The real blackmail is what Chirac has done. I am very disappointed that Chirac has influenced and directed the meeting.

The P and O directors recommend unanimously the DP World revised offer and look forward to putting it to stockholders.

Scott Aukerman

I get inspired when I look at Tom Lennon, who did 'Reno 911!' for six seasons while writing huge movies and directing and also doing other pilots; he did that FX pilot, the 'Star Trek' thing.

Thomas Perez

When we lift the wage floor, it not only betters the lives of those whose wages are directly affected, it also lifts the economy as a whole.

Doorknob: Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.

Don't worry about the intensity and direction of the putt -- until you get on the green!

Patti Smith

As I go through life, I can see why my mother directed me that way, or why my father counseled me in that way. But some things you're open to when you're young, and some things you need to find out for yourself. I think that that's pretty universal.

Bruce Johnston

Are you telling me, Mr. Jensen, that if Mr. Stevens were to testify that he did, in fact, tell you about that option, that you would say directly that he is lying?

Charlotte Ayanna

Ever since I was a little girl, I envisioned this exactly happening to me. Not necessarily doing a movie about strippers, but being young and having somebody like a director like Michael see me, and see something in me, and take a chance. And have a process like we have had.

Due to a combination of outsourcing and infighting, senior IT directors were moved sideways during the late 1990s and early 2000s. It is time for them to reclaim their role.

Alex Graves

Especially as a director on 'West Wing,' I directed a lot of different things in a lot of different ways and really stretched my wings.

The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it.

Tibor Fischer

Outside their country, Hungarian directors have had, from the critics at least, a friendly reception.

My work is not directly about the social or political.

Gil Scott-Heron

You see, revolution sounds like something that happens, like turning on the light switch, but actually it's moving a large obstacle, and a lot of folks' efforts to push it in one direction or the other have to combine.

Be prepared. The stress and the pressure can make you run in all sorts of directions for any job out there.

Brittany Bowe

When I'm starting a race, I just completely narrow down my vision and focus on what's directly ahead of me.

Ben Katchor

There's something exciting about weekly strips in that you're following the way the story reveals itself to the writer week by week. All the possible directions it could have taken are there; it's a kind of participatory reading that I think books discourage.

Ami Ayalon

To pull out of Gaza is not a policy, it is a step. Whether it is a step in the right direction toward a two-state solution or at least a step toward hope, we don't know.

While the RBA might engage in occasional bouts of jawboning, we see little prospect of the RBA moving in either direction for some considerable period. That, indeed, was the main message out of yesterday's monetary policy statement.

Drew Stanton

We wanted to show that this program is back in the right direction. There's no better way to do that than a rivalry game at Notre Dame.

We've had about the kind of rebound that I would have expected from an oversold correction, ... I think the overall direction of the market is going to be choppy.

Tom Benson

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We also did our normal direct marketing to trainers in Florida, Arkansas, and California.

Everybody was searching in one direction, and the dog was trying to go in the other direction.

Every man in a leadership position knows when it's time to hand over reins to someone else. I'll be retiring as superintendent of police and will be going on in another direction God has for me.

Adam Smith

Every individual...generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.

Every indication in our poll is either unchanged or positive in Bush's direction.