Direct Quotes

• Even if, as is generally the case, everything that the ad says about the product is scrupulously honest, or at any rate scrupulously avoids outright dishonesty, the implication of the direct address of most commercials - that the announcer speaks with the viewer's welfare at heart - is fraudulent.

  

  Michael Schudson
  • Honest
  • Products
  • Dishonesty

• Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

  

  Plato
  • Children
  • Train
  • Direct

• I want to direct. Definitely a goal of mine.

  

  Corey Haim
  • Goal
  • Direct
  • Mine

• I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Movie
  • Pride
  • Kitchen

• [Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Time
  • Children
  • Instruction

• My energy is good; it is directed at training hard.

  

  Dillian Whyte
  • Energy
  • Training
  • Direct

• Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Power
  • Direct
  • Purposes

• The immiseration of the majority is an integral part of the Free World package for the Third World, the unsavory aspects of the package - the terror, the direct spoilation of people and resources, and western complicity - must be rationalized and, as far as possible, kept under the rug.

  

  Edward S. Herman
  • World
  • Terror
  • Aspect

• Her gaze was direct, full of a sadness so raw and crystallized that I could see the shape of it. It ringed her pupils in rusty starbursts, but she was grinning--this terrible, ferocious grin. It made her look like she wanted to tear someone's throat out.

  

  Brenna Yovanoff
  • Sadness
  • Tear
  • Grin

• In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

  

  William Dean Howells
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Sincere

• And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.

  

  Norman McLaren
  • Simple
  • Philosophy
  • Canvas

• Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially with nasty smells, but it is a way of searching out by observation, trial and classification; whether the phenomena investigated be the outcome of human activities, or of the more direct workings of nature's laws. Its methods admit of nothing untidy or slip-shod; its keynote is accuracy and its goal is truth.

  

  Archibald Garrod
  • Goal
  • Nasty
  • Observation

• Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

  

  Norman Tebbit
  • Parliament
  • Untruth
  • Mislead

• I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • Direct
  • Horseback

• I'd like to be a better writer, but I have no dreams to direct or do a screenplay. And I'd love to have a big starring role in a movie because the paycheck would be bigger. That's the only reason I do films.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Dream
  • Reason
  • Film

• People have got to get used to making low carbon choices. If they have a direct incentive to do so they will think about it. Many times a day you have a choice between a low carbon option and a high carbon option, whether it is at home or at work.

  

  Tim Yeo
  • Choices
  • Carbon
  • Incentives

• I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to the sacrifices or the selfishness of its forefathers.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • People
  • Sacrifice
  • Liberty

• There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose "story" "plot" "continuity"... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Writing
  • Moments
  • Certain

• Very rarely are we directing or cutting someone elses boards. We concept, direct, shoot, animate and edit almost everything that comes through here.

  

  Ben Nicholson
  • Cutting
  • Boards
  • Edit

• Greed and competition are not the result of immutable human temperment…greed and fear of scarcity are in fact being created and amplified …the direct consequence is that we have to fight with each other in order to survive

  

  Bernard Lietaer
  • Fighting
  • Competition
  • Facts

• Most folks don't know about it. But I thought it was worth a shot, as I could direct my fans to it via my Web site.

  

  Alex Chilton Big Star
  • Fans
  • Worth
  • Folks

• I'm not sure if I want to direct a film, but certainly, as an actress, I'm always thinking, 'Surely this must be my last film.'

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Thinking
  • Film
  • Actress

• I always try and mix High Street finds into my looks. It really doesn't matter how much something costs, it's the way you wear it! Fashion is about self expression, having fun, and occasionally being a little disposable. I really enjoy lots of stores that are found at local shopping malls. French Connection, Zara, and Topshop always interpret the fashions direct from the catwalk at affordable prices. This playsuit from Hoss Intropia is delicate, super sexy, and has a lingerie feel. I'd throw on a super soft, chunky cardigan and a pair of flat gladiator sandals.

  

  Cat Deeley
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Fashion

• Fashion is a movie. Every morning when you get dressed, you direct yourself.

  

  Thierry Mugler
  • Fashion
  • Morning
  • Direct

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