Direct Quotes - page 2

Human subtlety...will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. (Leonardo da Vinci)
We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday. View quote
Steven Spielberg
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. View quote
Minoru Yamasaki
The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data. View quote
Aubrey de Grey
I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one. View quote
Penelope Lively
Some big businessmen did contribute to the Nazi election funds but German capitalism cannot be regarded, on the evidence, as having collectively brought fascism to power in any direct sense. Fascism in Germany was a mass movement brought to power through collusion with a bankrupt but traditional elite, not as the puppet of big business. View quote
Richard Overy
I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work. View quote
Walter Hill
I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies. View quote
Walter Hill
Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers. View quote
James Woolsey
I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos. (Alex Winter)
I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth. View quote
Ben Lindsey
Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes. View quote
Chuck Mangione
Able Danger consisted of approximately 20 direct individuals working for Special Forces in Tampa, Florida. The total amount of people working for Able Danger was 20. View quote
Curt Weldon
Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them. View quote
Ella Maillart
You have to be insane to direct. View quote
Morris Chestnut
I love to direct my daughter, and act with her, and we both want to work with Jane again. View quote
Peter Fonda
I don't like to direct myself. View quote
Vic Morrow
I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere. View quote
Yaphet Kotto
I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous. View quote
Yvonne Craig
Only through blind Instinct, in which the only possible guidance of the Imperative is awanting, does the Power in Intuition remain undetermined; where it is schematised as absolute it becomes infinite; and where it is presented in a determinate form, as a principle, it becomes at least manifold. By the above-mentioned act of Intelligising, the Power liberates itself from Instinct, to direct itself towards Unity. (Johann Gottlieb Fichte)
The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilization, owe little or none of their superiority to direct inheritance from the old Greeks, though they owe much to the written works of that wonderful people. View quote
Charles Darwin
When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible. View quote
Rollo May
The Commonwealth is a mere club, but it has become like an 'Animal Farm' where some members are more equal than others. How can Blair claim to regulate and direct events and still say all of us are equals? View quote
Robert Mugabe
There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going. View quote
Cannonball Adderley