Quotes About Control

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.

Let's stop the startwatch.

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

Knock yourself out... Or rather, don't.

Shut up, Julius! I mean, quiet a moment, Commander.

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

Manners, boy. I'll beat them into you if I have to.

You cannot control faeries. Can. Not. They aren't logical or rational. They don't obey the same laws (physical, social, emotional, traffic - you name it) that we do.

East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory.

I couldn't find the remote control to the remote control.

It's harder to be funny from the position of power.

My son is 21. He'll be 22 if I let him.

The real trick for me as a director is to make sure that people don't start pushing because the harder you push as a perform the less funny it becomes.

High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.

Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them.

They've not been able to control any Iraqi city. We're waging war against this snake and we will be victorious.

The Iraqi troops and the Iraqi fighters are in control of all the places, as we have witnessed, no big change in that. We are fighting against them.

The best thing to ever happen to marriage is the pause-live-TV button.

It's funny how it reads like a Kubrick-inspired moment, a filmmaker controlling one's mise en scène. What it truly is is a documentary moment.

In this scene, I'm talking about how much I don't like cookies.... I'm sayin', 'Listen, guys. Have you read the book? We're not supposed to be eating.'

I have to step out for a second. Don't do anything funny while I'm gone.

Kings and such are just as funny as politicians.

You will not pass!" Roman thundered.Great. Now he had decided he was Gandalf.

Working for Mab now, are you, Wolfman?" he smirked. "Like a good little attack dog? Will you also roll over and beg if she asks?