Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerome Williams

After three months, the executive director must come up with a plan to improve the overall performance of the agency.

Tom Daschle

It's really a repulsive and outrageous attack, once again, on those who question the direction that much of the administration has taken with regard to Iraq,

Initially, you don't need five lanes in each direction.

I'm interested in having people who have no direct interest in the bidding process to provide independent, objective information to the committee.

Gary Ross

I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day. You're communicating directly with the reader.

James Gray

I know this sounds phony, but I don't start out on a project going, 'I'm going to make an emotional work,' you know what I mean? You try to tell the story directly and honestly and with passion.

Mark Ruffalo

I knew playwrights and stage directors before I ever knew filmmakers,

Michael Arrington

I have Twitter auto-post to my Facebook page, and I occasionally post things directly to Facebook as well. I've always noticed that the direct-to-Facebook approach generates far more likes, but I've never actually gone back and run the averages.

Jennifer Hale

I like it when I can hear directly from the writer: what they're seeing, what they're envisioning, and what their intention is.

I'm rooting for the Jays. I was either scouting director or a cross-checker for 10 years. Whenever we had to promote a player we knew someone was ready, or when we had to trade a player, we had someone ready. Our farm system must have been okay.

Improvements in the quality of sexual life were directly related to weight loss and seemed to reach their maximum at about 12 percent weight loss.

Immigration is directly related to it. We can't sit like ostriches with our heads in the sand any longer.

I'm not going. I'm 100 percent Italian and my family makes a trip there once a year. That made it a tough decision. This year we've made a lot of additions here and there is a lot of excitement about the direction we're headed. I just want to be here from the beginning.

I'm excited to be a finalist. It's great to see the direction some things are going there, and I hope I'm a part of it.

Mathieu Amalric

I keep meeting directors that are so irresistible. I only do irresistible films, because I don't need to act to feel myself alive.

I keep saying this, but the most important part of directing is casting, and the rest of it is pretty easy.

I liked it because they just started service down here from Manchester, (N.H.,) ... It's not nonstop, but it's a direct flight. They seem to be doing something right. They got us in early.

Alex Karpovsky

I like directing myself; I feel like it's one less person to give notes to. There's an efficiency in it. I'm also kind of a control freak. So I like the fact that it gives me more control in the overall picture.

I led my parents in the wrong direction ... because I didn't want us to be the one who found him, because then they'd know I'd (pause), then they'd be thinking then I knew exactly where he was.

I learned a lot at Salinas. I think we got that program moving in the right direction pretty rapidly.

Jenny Lewis

I like babies, but not in the front row. I don't want to sing directly to a baby.

I love what I do in my job back in the real world, but this is the opportunity to get out and have a direct impact on people who suffered a major catastrophic event,

Emma Stone

I love improv. 'Crazy, Stupid, Love,' the script was really great, but the directors were open to letting you try different things. And that felt like a muscle I hadn't exercised in a really long time.

It was a big factor, but I think most of it had to do with the direction that this team is heading in. I may start one game, I may start two games, I may not start at all. But this team is headed in the right direction.

Jonathan Mostow

It takes such a commitment of passion and energy and time, and it's all so encompassing to direct that you've got to see the bullseye, and you know you can hit it - or at least get awfully close.

Dusty Baker

It takes awhile. I'm glad all these guys are here. They've been doing a lot of drills. They've been doing a lot of things. You've got verbal direction instructions to each other. ... It's a unit you want to get together as quickly as possible, especially on defense.

It's very important to get gross margins moving in the right direction.

Madeline Zima

I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.

Dave Heineman

I want to emphasize that I am not opposed to pipelines. We already have hundreds of them in our state. I am opposed to the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline route because it is directly over the Ogallala Aquifer.

John Franklin

I want to be out there on the firing line, helping, directing or doing something to try to make this a better world, a better place to live,

I started in the psychological thriller side of feature filmmaking with 'Spiral,' which was the first one that I wrote and directed and played the lead in.

Richard Boucher

It was a direct discussion between the two of them about the issues.

Brian Cashman

It took us a long time for some reason to get together and push in the right direction,