top of page
Direction Quotes


"It was all recorded and mixed and there's more continuity in it more direction."


"At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic."


"The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went."


"Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly."


"John and I had a few meetings about what direction the sequel should take. I made some real insane suggestions. True to what you'd expect, he ignored them all and just picked up Halloween II where the original left off."


"And it raises a fundamental question: How long can we move the world in one direction while we move in another direction, and do we want to backslide into an era that we finally emerged from where we had a nuclear weapon for every tactical mission?"


"The knowledge of "Where am I going?" sometimes depends on the faithfulness in little things."


"I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in."


"I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie."


"You have to listen to what resonates within your own gut. You find your direction there. Your voice comes out."


"The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic."


"Well firstly, that points certainly at the need for international standards on biometrics that would move in the same direction so that we can have the same technical requirements."


"I saw Al Foster with Miles Davis the other week. It was beautiful. But, the whole thing was, Al Foster played as well as everybody else, but all of them were quite brilliant under Miles Davis' direction."


"In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west."


"Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges."


"Sometimes I think that I want to do something strictly basic, really simple. Just with a few chords. But I won't have anything more than two or three sentences in my head. That kind of evaporates once I start playing and then it goes off in whatever direction."


"The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually reinforcing."


"I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me."


"In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction."


"I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not."


"I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction."


"Aimless life leads to depression."


"He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door."


"My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things."


"In the period from 1824 to 1833, the tendency was steadily in the former direction, but it was only in the latter part of it that it was made really efficient."


"Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do."


"Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it."


"They were involved in a firefight and felt they were surrounded. Whether they escaped from that and were fleeing and went in the wrong direction, we don't know."


"In order to answer the question "Where am I going?" you must possess decisiveness."


"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction."


"It's hard to be happy when you are facing 120 to 140 degree temperatures and nothing seems to be moving in a direction that you think or they think or you've been told it's supposed to be moving in."


"The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula."


"Once he had selected the path he was going down he really had to stick with it in a 16 game match. He had to try and hit in the one direction but unfortunately for him - though fortunately for me! - he hit in the wrong direction."


"If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction."
bottom of page