Danas Quotes & Sayings

I love to direct! I get really jazzed by directing, but directing is not the same kind of personal expression, the same kind of personal intimate expression that writing is. Because when you're directing, you're basically managing, basically getting out of people doing their job, except when you see them going astray. — Alan Ball

We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading nature of that which only superficially seems to be obvious. It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience. — R. Buckminster Fuller

If a director, I believe, has vision and knows so clearly what they want, then you can have a film that can perform. Whereas you can have done 50 movies, but if you're unsure this time, your movie may not turn out. — Nate Parker

Answers are like opium: the more you imbibe, the more you need. Which is why the sober man finds solace in mystery. — R. Scott Bakker

The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results. — Thomas Sowell

My course, navigating the sea of life, begins with a goal sighted in the lens of my telescope. — Celeste Cooper

Single moment in a string of infinite moments ... and that they too shall pass. — Yasmin Mogahed

Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person. — Aaron Sorkin

Cancer is a growth hormone for empathy, and empathy makes us useful to each other in ways we were not, could not have been, before. — Kelly Corrigan

Transform your sex into love, and transform your love into prayer — Rajneesh

He who, with strong passions, remains chaste
he who, keenly sensitive, with manly power of indignation in him, can yet restrain himself and forgive
these are strong men, spiritual heroes. — Frederick William Robertson

mission is defined as what you do to join in God's world-renewing project. — Paul Sparks