Direct Quotes

• Notwithstanding the work of all kinds done by steam-engines... their theory is very little understood, and the attempts to improve them are still directed almost by chance.

  

  Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot
  • Chance
  • Direct
  • Steam Engines

• You have the sky overhead giving one light; then the reflected light from whatever reflects; then the direct light of the sun; so that, in the blending and suffusing of these several luminations, there is no such thing as a line to be seen anywhere.

  

  Winslow Homer
  • Giving
  • Direct

• Molecular evolution is not based on scientific authority. . . . There are assertions that such evolution occurred, but absolutely none are supported by pertinent experiments or calculations. Since no one knows molecular evolution by direct experience, and since there is no authority on which to base claims of knowledge, it can truly be said that . . . the assertion of Darwinian molecular evolution is merely bluster.

  

  Michael Behe
  • Authority
  • Evolution
  • Claims

• It is fascinating to watch politicians come up with 'solutions' to problems that are a direct result of their previous solutions. In many cases, the most efficient thing to do would be to repeal their previous solution and stop being so gung-ho for creating new solutions in the future. But, politically, that is the last thing they will do.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Political
  • Problem
  • Politician

• Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.

  

  Noah Webster
  • Education
  • Bible
  • Direct

• If people get to hear us, maybe they might don’t like us, but they would definitely realise that there’s something different. We’re also very direct, which is a kind of dirty word in Britain. Then we’re dynamic, dramatic and about maximum excitement. You might find these kinds of values in styles like dubstep or rave, but they are hard to find in live bands.

  

  Steve Chandra Savale Asian Dub Foundation
  • Different
  • Hear
  • Direct

• I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that.

  

  Catherine Hardwicke
  • Done
  • Challenges
  • Mystery

• We are all immersed in the atmosphere of our own thinking, which is the direct result of all we have ever said, thought or done. This decides what is to take place in our lives.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Lives
  • Atmosphere
  • Immersed

• Eventually, everyone said, Why don't you direct? It would save time. And that's how it started.

  

  Melissa Joan Hart
  • Said
  • Would
  • Started

• I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have to take off the writer hat and let the director direct.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Written
  • Directors
  • Scripts

• The last thing I want is to be in a film role is obvious, direct and offensive.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Direct
  • Offensive
  • Film role

• I'm currently trying to direct my own material.

  

  Tom Skerritt
  • Direct
  • Material

• 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.

  

  Mitchell Hurwitz
  • Something
  • Direct
  • Otherwise

• It was the straying that found the path direct.

  

  Austin Osman Spare
  • Path
  • Direct
  • Straying

• Going forward, I have four different ways of approaching what I want to do - I can generate my own material by writing. I can produce, direct, act, or do a combination of these things, mixing it up.

  

  Noah Wyle
  • Act
  • Direct
  • Material

• Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception.

  

  George Washington
  • Church
  • Christianity
  • Exception

• My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence each other in the measure that everything we do is linked to whatever we are, which includes whatever we have done or are doing.

  Etel Adnan
  • Writing
  • Connection
  • Influence

• The fun you get from golf is in direct ratio to the effort you don't put into it.

  

  Bob Allen
  • Fun
  • Effort
  • Golf

• It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Evil
  • Effort
  • Poverty

• In the Middle East you get that sense that leadership decisions and the local powers that are working around us all the time have a direct effect on the quality of life... and that quality of life is obviously very different between a kid who is growing up in a refugee camp and somebody who is living in Tel Aviv.

  

  Eran Riklis
  • Leadership
  • Kid
  • Decisions

• What you need to know to direct a movie is of such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn't hire them to paint your apartment. And then there's everything in-between. There's no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair.

  

  Tony Gilroy
  • Paint
  • Empty
  • Variety

• I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance… I’ve always wanted to be able to convey figurative imagery in a kind of shorthand, to get it across in as direct a way as possible. I want there to be a human presence without having to depict it in full.

  

  Cecily Brown
  • Kind
  • Humans
  • Cat

• You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

  

  Spider Robinson
  • People
  • Lying
  • Track

• I don't go through a torturous intellectual process to decide what to direct. I know what I want to direct the second I read something or hear a story. I just know when it grabs me in a certain way I want to direct it. And then I spend the next four to six months trying to talk myself out of it, because directing is really hard! But it's true, I know essentially when and what I want to do next... it's an undeniable feeling I get and it's not the same feeling I get when I wind up producing something.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Process
  • Direct
  • Torturous

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