Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

We think it is totally wrong for the state to direct a media outlet like this.

Dennis Erickson

We're going to wait for the legal part of it to come about and find out exactly what happened and what direction we're going to go in.

We're very interested in our directors as being as accountable as possible to our shareholders.

John Beilein

We're very excited about our television schedule. To go from one or two national games a year to possibly double-digit games on national television is good news, but you can't get on television unless you play the top teams in the country. It speaks well about the direction of our program.

We're very excited about Danny's development. The experience that he gained last season plus his off-season work has put him in a position to drive this team in the direction we want to go.

We saw there was a strong and direct relationship between arterial wall thickness and increasing levels of risk of former smoking.

John Hurt

Very, very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work. And I prefer the latter, for obvious reasons. It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone.

We feel like we're really moving in a positive direction right now.

Robert Kiyosaki

I found in direct selling companies an education system designed to draw out the rich person in you.

Michael Tilson Thomas

I can't do pieces I only admire technically. I have to feel some direct contact with them.

I started my career at General Electric in a small office under a guy named Greg Liemandt, and his direct boss was Jack Welch. I would say those two have had the most profound impact on my career.

Pieter Zeeman

Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like a pendulum to its position of rest.

Patrick Warburton

Never met Levinson. Ever. He directed those American Express spots for us for Seinfeld, and I was off on some guest spot that I didn't even want to do... and I got talked into doing it.

Paul Broun

As your congressman, I hold the Holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington D.C.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Going forward, I would love to work with directors like Rian Johnson and Joss Whedon; people like that who are doing big films but do have really independent voices. That's kind of what I want to focus on, is always working with people with at least an independent point of view, even if it's not an independent film.

Russell Crowe

I look for the role that excites me and work with whoever that director happens to be, wherever he wants to shoot the film.

To be fair, the law is very complicated. However, it is the IRS's obligation to issue guidelines and give direction immediately.

Steven Spielberg

This opportunity ... allows all of us to reach out directly to open a much wider door.

What people see here, however, are all history and truth. No director and actor, no matter how talented they might be, can make such tangible products. And this is only a glimpse of history.

What Nine Mile Falls was doing, we believe, violates the students' constitutional rights because directly sniffing students' possessions without any reason to suspect an individual has done anything wrong is not allowed.

We gave a dire effort to get back into the game. My guys played with a lot of resilience but it was too little too late.

We had a huge January and February. Where we're seeing progress is new money through small donors in the direct mail program.

Carlton Cuse

TV showrunners have become known entities to people who watch television in the way that movie directors have been known to filmgoers for a long time. When I started out as a writer and producer in television, I never had the slightest expectation that fame would be part of the job.

John Polson

TV directing is fine because you can come in and do a TV show in a relatively short period of time, and that can pay the bills.

Don Meyer

We don't really feel right now that the United States will be in such dire trouble in the year 2000.

Pat Riley

To get him on the move is an objective of ours. All the dunks and lobs he's been getting are a direct result of some of that movement.

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.

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.