Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hedge funds don't necessarily move in the same direction at the same time. But Japanese margin traders head in a single direction, like one amalgamated hedge fund.

He helps Gore by re-cementing the direction for this party.

From there, we will go directly to the United States Supreme Court.

Jill Soloway

For me to be able to punch above my weight creatively, to actually take a stand for what I was doing, I had to take on everything. I had to be the person who says, 'I wrote it. I directed it.'

Allison Anders

For me, the most exciting thing is that Jane Campion is a woman we can all really look up to. She doesn't have the body of work that some other directors do - no woman director does - but her work is so consistently original, wonderful, masterful.

Fortunately, the fire seems to be holding on the south end. We haven't had any major, significant acreage growth today. On the north end, we were able to get hand crews in there and do some direct attack.

For us as a program, we have to learn to win. I think we took a step in that direction tonight.

Giving is very directly tied to the economy. People's willingness to give as much as they possibly can is tied to whether they feel secure about their jobs and the fact that they are going to have to pay more in gas prices.

Henry David Thoreau

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

God directed me to do for gospel music what I'd been doing for the secular music. I had no peace with the secular side; there was something else tugging at me.

If it doesn't rain pretty soon and there's nothing I can see in the long-range forecast that we're going to get a whole lot of rain then I think a lot of our people are going to be in dire straights.

If we see you doing it, you're going directly to jail.

If the goal (of the hearing) was to get an objective understanding of the software industry, there are plenty of industry analysts who could have provided a more objective point of view than five of Microsoft's direct competitors.

He was calm, made the right reads. Tom directed the team well and was a true leader out there.

Julie Ann Emery

I would prefer to direct without also starring in the same project.

I would have liked to see it at least in a planning stage and what direction we were going.

I would hate to be the first executive director to play games on a Sunday.

I guess in Jacksonville, residents are responding quite differently than South Florida residents because they have not been through a direct hit.

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.

If they can get you to go directly to their Web site that's pretty strong marketing. And, it's inexpensive for them.

If we could identify what that factor is -- and there's no guarantee we will, but if we can -- then one could direct your vaccine to elicit a response of that particular factor that is protecting them.

We're unclear whether there is a direct connection.

Emma Roberts

It's always great when a director is just supportive of what you're doing. They're not so much critiquing you but giving you more ideas, giving you tons of things to work with, making you question your character and making you think about it... and making it seem like everything is limitless. That usually helps a lot.

Any director or writer or artist has the right to do what they want to do - freedom of expression is something I celebrate.

Bernard Hill

I had a really good time working with Jim Cameron. A lot of people didn't, but I did as I got on with him really quite well. For a director who spends most of his time looking down a lens or in the digitisation studio or working out some graphics, he is actually very good with actors.

Bryce Dallas Howard

My first time I directed a play was 'No Exit,' a play set in a subway.

Bryce Dallas Howard

Directing 'When You Find Me' was one of the most creatively rewarding endeavors of my career.

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?'