Famous Quotes & Sayings

I was told New Orleans... wanted to go another direction. Through it, I learned a valuable lesson... That's the nature of the business.

I was told by the (VIS state tournament) director that if we don't win a game in the (VIC) tournament, we're not going. Every team we've lost to has been ranked.

It fills an obvious network gap for us in the Middle East and allows us to forge new direct relationships with major institutions in Kuwait.

Huston Street

It feels like it's responding, like it's heading in the right direction.

I think people have lost direction at these levels. (There's) some physical interest in silver and gold, but not much.

Julianne Moore

I think people are always really surprised when they realise I'm not a very serious person and that I'm not tremendously serious about acting. I don't like to rehearse; I hate improv. Directors that don't like to talk, they're my favourite ones.

I think people here are omni-vigilant, ... Our guidelines are so strict. If a problem is uncovered, it goes directly to the auditor's office and is investigated.

With all the focus on reading, I think states are going to move in this direction. The question is when, and where the leadership will come from.

We're cooperating fully, as the president and the vice president directed us.

Andrew Zimbalist

You also then have to acknowledge that when the team performs poorly, it'll go in the opposite direction.

Larry Brown

We don't see it as a crisis, we see it as really moving in a positive direction for the people we serve.

Dennis Kelly

We really wanted to get back in and put our people back to work. That was the real thing. Not just our direct employees but all our contracts, stevedores, the longshoremen, you know these guys need to work and that was our whole goal.

We really pushed pretty hard all session and feel like we just couldn't get the Senate to move enough in the direction of small businesses.

We have some season left to play, and, as I do with every coach, we will take the season at the end of the year, then discuss my evaluation of it. I do that with every sport that I am directly responsible for.

We are trying to establish if there is any direct evidence linking the suspects to the bombings.

When you're in the noose, maybe that's dire straits. We come out tomorrow and we play. Who says we can't win four in a row? Who says they can't lose four out of five? Until you're mathematically out, you go out there and play ball.

We had good people with great personalities. That gave us good team chemistry. Everybody pulling for the same direction makes it a lot easier to be successful.

It doesn't take much to push stocks lower in this market, ... Stocks have been headed in a downward direction for a while.

Wayne Chrebet

It doesn't shock me that he could come in here and practice two weeks and do what he did today. I'm not stunned, but yeah, it was something. I know this, it's a step in the right direction for us. That was a 4-0 team.

It doesn't happen every year. It is directly related to the weather conditions.

It doesn't go to the direction that I wanted it to go.

Patricia Clarkson

I think I am monumentally lucky but I do have the good fortune to have these great young directors offering me parts in their scripts.

Rick Springfield

I think I lost my direction at the end of the '80s; I didn't know what I was writing anymore,

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.

Ed Bradley

It directly contradicts, though, what the president and his staff were telling us.

James Cook

I think it would be nice to be able to talk directly to the surface.

Chad Williams

I think it would be a step in the right direction for the program, and no one is going to give us anything.

I thought of my knee, ... and I jumped. He missed me, but I landed directly on my (right) knee. When I first landed, I didn't feel anything. I was happy. I was relieved he didn't hit my leg. But when I got up, I instantly felt it. When I got in the huddle, I looked at Davone (Bess, the left slotback), and I told him my knee hurt.

Randy Carlyle

I thought it was a masterpiece. It was a game where we were able to get things going in a positive direction after the first shift. We had a few miscues and we took a penalty right off the bat, but we were able to regroup and get enough pucks past their goaltenders.

I thought it was one step in the right direction. I and others need plays that are meaty and controversial. We need more than mainstream theater. Something challenging, that makes us think about issues.