#dire

Mounting a large rock, I was able to see a considerable body of the enemy moving by the flank in rear of their line engaged, and passing from the direction of the foot of Great Round Top through the valley toward the front of my left. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#body #considerable #direction #enemy #engaged

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#actually #back #be careful #careful #come

The interesting thing about the China story, getting back to the macro and micro, and as dire as I think the macro story is - due to bad credit and credit extension that makes Greece and Spain and the U.S. look like child's play - when you get to the micro of individual companies, they look even worse. ↗

— James Chanos

#back #bad #child #china #companies

There's no such thing as a non-final cut director. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#director #final cut #such #thing

With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#fee #get #getting #going #hotel

Directing, writing, producing and starring is just too tough. ↗

— Stephen Chow

#just #producing #starring #too #tough

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires. ↗

— Robert Collier

#desires #different #different directions #directions #equal

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#before #beings #blocked #confined #continuous

As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director. ↗

— Joan Chen

#actress #director #enjoyable #find #i

But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and figuring out how you're going to operate together. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#directors #done #efforts #figuring #flight