Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Smith

The march helped me with my sense of direction. It showed me I'm not in this alone.

The macro economy in the U.S. is moving in the right direction, but it is taking longer to gain traction in the tech sector.

This is a continuation of a trend of expansion of existing investments in SA, and will hopefully mark the start of a real upward trend in foreign direct investment.

All focus is on oil prices for the direction in gold.

Martin Scorsese

There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.

Marjane Satrapi

As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.

Any joint project is a positive move in the right direction. Working together is something we feel very positive about.

And the actor is under the direction of the director, and make-up and wardrobe.

Any success this program has had has been a direct reflection on his tireless effort. I'm extremely happy and feel fortunate to be able to work with him.

Any funeral director in earshot can come in and utilize this equipment.

Michael McKean

As far as directing, yeah, I'd like to do that. But you've got to spend at least a year, year-and-a-half doing that. It's got to be something you really love. To direct a sequel to somebody else's work is not interesting to me. To do a teen comedy, I don't think is really something I'd want to spend a year of my life doing at this point.

A set of universally enforced rules and regulations directed at increasing the safety of cheerleading should be implemented.

As Clinton's fortunes have gone up and down, the dollar has moved in the same direction.

Judith Jamison

As a dancer, you really try to stay true to whatever the choreographer/artistic director is giving you. So, now the shoe is on the other foot and I have to trust everyone else - I have to trust the dancer. As I was trusted as a dancer, I trust my dancers.

Richard Jefferson

Right now, the team is struggling, I've struggled. And I think it's a direct correlation.

Prague went with 1,000 feet because we heard that is the direction the state is leaning with their legislation.

Bud Selig

Perhaps, most damaging, it encourages our young fans to use these horrible substances, ... While I would prefer to resolve this problem directly with the players' association and jointly implement a much stronger drug-testing policy in major league baseball, one modeled after our program in the minor leagues, I understand the need for swift and resolute action.

San Sebastian is a very friendly festival, ... a place where the distance between directors and the public disappears.

Charles Babbage

Propose to any Englishman any principle or instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it.

Kofi Annan

pushing things toward one direction and issue, which is the inspection teams, while ignoring other related matters such as the questions which require answers.

John Logan

Realistically, it's the great truism that screenwriters are fungible, that at the end of the day a studio is not going to want to fire a movie star. And they're really not going to want to fire a star director because the director has the hand on the tiller of a ship.

Prices are going to be driven directly by the projected path of the storm,

People who don?t sleep well overnight and feel knocked out when they wake up possibly will direct their irritability toward their partner.

Our direction from (supervisors) has been to facilitate the effort, and there lies why we are putting up $1.3 million.

Lily James

People talk a lot about, 'You're a Disney princess! You're Cinderella!' and this and that. But for me, it's all about the fact that I worked with Cate Blanchett and was directed by Kenneth Branagh. That's the 'Cinderella' story for me.

Of the people that were there, they gave us a sense of direction. We really hit all the key issues.

Christopher Hitchens

of most of the people I know in the (journalism) profession who heard that story, they know it either directly or indirectly from Mr. Blumenthal.

Normally there are at least some questions where the students come from a direction that's pretty different from that of the Journal readers, and you'll notice that's not really true here.

The music map, the Vera Project all of these are steps in the right direction in making the statement that Seattle is a place that has great art, and music is one of those forms of art, ... If the Vera Project is doing well, that means good things for Sub Pop, because those are kids who will want to be musicians or work at Sub Pop.

James Posey

The moves they made this summer were big. It shows the direction they're headed.

Jill Wagner

After four seasons of co-hosting 'Wipeout,' I have been given the opportunity to pursue new directions in my acting career, which I am very passionate about. I am extremely grateful to all those at 'Wipeout,' Endemol and ABC, who have been so supportive of me through these years.

After meeting with him, there was no question in my mind. I thought that was the direction I wanted to go. That was sometime right before Christmas, and then it was just a matter of working out some details.

Mitchell Hurwitz

Something about not waiting for the laugh of a laugh track allows you to take lines that otherwise might be seen as just direct jokes, and make them seem realistic.