There is always something taboo, something repressed, un-admitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one’s eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an...

I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive.

Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn’t it, of a long line of proven criminals?

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

The most frustrating part of trying to direct everything is not that it alienates you from people who genuinely want to help, but that it’s actually impossible.

My personality just steps away, and I’m in direct connection when I’m on stage.

The closest thing to Heaven, is having a peaceful mind, and a beautiful, pure heart.

If you examine this, I think that you will find that it’s the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.

Your decisions determine where you will or will not be in later days to come. Rise up and direct them well!

Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it’s structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there’s nothing like writing about it right away.

I’m always amazed at the way some actors’ behaviour is truly disgusting. That’s one thing that will never happen on one of my sets if I ever direct.

In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I’m explaining my songs I shouldn’t be so direct about who they’re about.

A bonus: You don’t have to diet to direct.

One of the crafty tricks Satan plays is to guide a person safely on the wrong path. When your safety is the priority, you may be on the wrong path but may not know.

I know I’d like to direct a film at some point, and maybe I’ll write it.

I want to direct what I feel is interesting – not what is supposed to be my zone.

My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.

I was never one of those people who thought, ‘What I really want to do is direct.’ It never occurred to me.

You have a direct line to Christ; He’s waiting for your call”. HS/el

I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.

I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I’m enjoying it and as long as they are going to challenge me as an actor. I want to be an actor – it’s my...

Clearly outline your plans, acknowledge God and he will direct them for you. If you can have it planned, you can achieve it; if you have it planned big, you will achieve it big. Make...

For a lot of my childhood, I didn’t want to direct movies because I didn’t really know what directing was.

Your choices become your directions the moment you start to implement them. When you make choices and you don’t implement them, your choices may be the best ever, but the most useless.

It’s necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track.

It is incorrect to assume that you cannot find any good in the point of view directly opposite yours.

If you are not in good terms with the one who sent you, you can’t have the right direction to the errands he wants to send you for. Be in good talking terms with God;...

Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I’m looking for is the producer cap.

Your daily output is directly proportional to your daily thoughts while your activity or passivity remains as a constant. You get what you think to do provided you do it!

I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.

Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.

The desired shape your dreams take is directly proportional to the practical presentation of the theoretical skills that you have learnt.

If you write, produce and direct, you own things and see them through to the end.

You have no control over your growth or development. But you have a control on the direction of your growth and development! Go, grow towards impact directions!

In many ways he was like America itself, big and strong, full of good intentions, a roll of fat jiggling at his belly, slow of foot but always plodding along, always there when you needed...

Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.

Your success lies behind your choices… To get there, you must choose it and drive your dreams in that chosen direction!

I am very straight-forward and direct. If I disagree with something, I say something about it.

Compass rules direction; Decision rules life!

I have actually directed over thirty plays and about one hundred commercials for cable TV, but have not yet had the opportunity to direct a feature film.

Only strong women, and they seem to be rare, can handle a frank and direct woman who doesn’t sweet-talk or need others to nerve her. You can identify the easily intimidated because they need a...

I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn’t like it, and changed.

Why so eager to jump in and direct someone else’s life when you can’t stick to your own goals and resolutions?

The volume of your impacts is measured by the direction of your movements, the passion with which you inspire and the attitudes by which you make an influence!

Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is; it is anticipating how it will be perceived.

I avoid Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and if I need to communicate with someone, I email direct.

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.

Life. Life is a show. It’s up to you how to make your own story, do your own show and how to live your show you are on. You choose who you need to meet,...

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.