Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Dingell

The plan is long on directions and short on resources for non-federal partners in pandemic preparedness.

Jackie Cooper

I got schooled over at NBC on a soap opera, and I had a Sunday-afternoon show, an hour show sponsored by the Ford Foundation, a documentary, half live with film integration. I directed that.

Jaromir Jagr

We need some scoring and we need some defense, too. There are a lot of players around the league that see this team is going in a different direction than before.

We need someone to get in there and give them some direction. We need oversight by someone in a leadership position.

Joseph Lyons

We need rates to go down, but this goes in the other direction.

I think he's sharpened his language a lot today. Obviously, things haven't been flowing in his direction lately.

Brian Williams

I think her results are a direct result of her hard work and the maturity factor comes in. She has been the perfect example of what can happen when you put your mind and energy into something.

I think his prairie paintings are his finest work. He put everything he had into them. It was a kind of recollection of his youth, painting very directly and powerfully.

I think generally we're heading in the right direction, but we still don't have enough seats for all theses kids.

Looking around and looking out, even standing in the middle of the street, if you look in one direction around here you are going to see trees.

John Beasley

Mark will be very nervous -- each week is a new step for him, but he's going in the right direction.

Sushil Koirala

Maoists want a directly elected president, but this will give birth to an autocrat.

Anil Biswas

Marx and Engels first discovered how the market system runs. So, it is not anti-Marxist. Rather it is direct and innovative implementation of Marxist idea of market system.

Mahela Jayawardene

Marvin and I have been a partnership for quite some time now, so our thinking is in the same direction. It is a temporary thing for me to take the team.

Dinah Sheridan

Lionel had never directed before, but, as an actor, he was sensitive to the reactions of actors, and he did a magnificent job.

We know he has done a very retail-oriented campaign, going right to individual voters and surgically finding those who will vote and vote for him. His message is directed at reminding voters what he has done for them.

We were looking for greater transparency, and this moves in the other direction.

When it comes to their resistance, people have a right to be worried, because more than anything right now we need someone who is going to make our life easier. But the social work softens that, and this is the direction they took in the campaign.

People are generally not direct in everyday interactions.

People are starting to realize that Sears is moving in the right direction and is a good investment.

There are a lot of question marks about the strategic direction that they are going in. Is this still a sale or not?

Carice van Houten

Most directors that I've worked with - I've worked with before, especially in Holland - and they know that I'm somebody who talks and asks, and talks, and talks, and talks and questions and turns things around. I'm like a little cat, walking around my little nest until I find my place.

I make a point to never, ever point out my physical flaws... this is advice I give to women as often as I can. People don't notice the things we see in ourselves that we hate, so why direct them to it?

Dick Costolo

I try to spend a lot of time with people outside my direct reports. The view from the top is totally distorted. If you only spend time with your directs, you have no perspective on what's really going on.

When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. We used to make these silly, stupid short films, which, looking back now, were probably horrible.

Tony Scott

An established film director can just pick up the phone and say to a star, 'Hey, are you interested in doing a commercial?'

Chris Henderson

We pick up the phone and talk to the Secret Service, if not daily, then once a week. We have a direct line over to our friends at the Secret Service.

We pay people directly for their submissions, and then we also have various programs to reward our loyal contributors and keep them working with us. This is our latest effort to further reward them.

When Katrina hit, I had only one thing in my mind as a Slow Food leader: finding a direct way to help small farmers, artisans and fisherman get back to work and sustain themselves and their families.

Javier Lopez

While some scientists have suspected that large introns might not be removed in one piece through direct splicing, no one had identified how this could happen. Now we have identified a way,

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Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.

Stephen Moyer

It's so funny when you're actually directing because things start popping that you don't expect to pop, and something that you think is going to pop, maybe doesn't quite have the impetus that you thought it might.