Famous Quotes & Sayings

We knew that a win like this could get our team in the right direction.

We're not planning to go 24 hours, but we are taking a step in that direction.

We're not in as dire a situation as Orange or Seminole counties. We learned from last year's hurricanes to have as much fuel on hand as possible.

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.

Marcia Gay Harden

You have to make sure that you and your child are connecting, and it does help when they are looking directly into your eyes.

You have to look back 43 years, to 1963, to find anything this severe. It is a dire situation that may take over a year for full recovery, once the rains return.

Brian Williams

You have to talk to the guys upstairs. I don't know what direction they are going in or what they have planned. I'm open for suggestions.

You have a direct role in that. Governing is not just the government making policy.

Jason Reitman

When you make a movie, you do it so piecemeal. You're doing it, not only scene by scene, out of order, but shot by shot, line by line. And there's this idea that the director has the whole thing in his or her head and they're going to somehow weave it all together in the end.

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.

feel comfortable with the direction the district is taking, but we're not satisfied.

Father's hot-button issue is donor intent. Foundations are too often taken in a radical direction.

There's a good program out there that just needs to be nurtured and expanded. Let's grow it. It helps people in a very direct way.

David Morse

There's a different kind of satisfaction in helping a director achieve, you know, something like The Green Mile, which I thought was pretty terrific.

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

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.

Hope Partlow

a step in the right direction for pretty young things with big voices and ample ambition.

As I told Flores, if we were playing a different team, we may have gone a different direction.

At some point, we've got to stop it and turn it around and go in the other direction. Hopefully that time is coming.

Andrew Lo

At this point, there isn't an obvious place to park money, ... A number of strategies that produced good returns in the past are no longer profitable. A lot of the smart money is sitting on the sidelines right now just waiting for the direction to change.

Direct sellers tend to be globally diverse. They aren't typically leveraged to the U.S. consumer, which has been spotty lately.

direct sales force and the focus of our research and development investments.

Direct rule is not the right way for Northern Ireland to be governed. Devolution is. We want to -- and we will -- hand back to politicians as soon as we can.

Casey Affleck

Directors will have a different idea than I have. It will rarely be a perfect match.

Kyrie Irving

Directors tell me what to do, and I kind of just put my own twist to it, just to get inside my personality that everybody doesn't really get to see - my off-the-court interests and the way I act. It's just me.