Quotes About Control

Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate's immortal loom

Dieu est le seul être qui, pour règner, n'a même pas besoin d'exister.

Dragon's Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film.

You annex foreign land, not your own country.

I'm supposed to enforce the laws of the land.

But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film.

Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting.

Shooting in Hong Kong, you can do whatever you want, even change the script every day. In Hollywood, you have to have a lot of meetings.

When I put my mind to it I can be a megalomaniac.

I'm not a great band member; I'm more of a band leader.

Emotionally, light very much influences, I feel, the audience. It's not something that most audience members are conscious of, which is a good thing, because it means as filmmakers, we have the opportunity to gently control an audience into feeling a certain way.

In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense.

When you're young, you don't have any experience - you're charged up, but you're out of control. And if you're old and you're not charged up, then all you have is memories. But if you're charged and stimulated by what's going on around you, and you also have experience, you know what to appreciate and what to pass by.

Eating was my only way of controlling my life, or so I thought. When you are addicted or suffering from a mental illness, you think you're in complete control. But the opposite is true. You are, in fact, completely out of control.

I don't like the mentality that comes with rich Russian men. Because they have money, they think they can buy a woman - and they do.

I'd only do a deal with a label if it allowed me to still be indie and have that indie mentality. I have to have creative control.

Obviously, we think it's important to make sure that firearms do not get in the hands of people who are criminals, convicted felons or adjudicated as mentally ill.

You have to keep control mentally when you go a goal down.

I'd never had a mentor in Hollywood. Men have always been in control of the business, and they usually mentor people who are like them - but two inches shorter.

When you have a home and create a brand people believe in and want to support, it makes it easier for you to control merchandise and sell it.

Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.

People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.

You're at the mercy of the editors' hands.