Quotes About Control

At school, I was never given a sense that poetry was something flowery or light. It's a complex and controlled way of using language. Rhythms and the music of it are very important. But the difficulty is that poetry makes some kind of claim of honesty.

I can only hit it one way. I can only hook it.

You just control what you can control and just hopefully go win games and keep getting better.

I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and hoping that he would do it well. I would know what he was doing, and we could discuss how that scene would look.

I would say we, as the people, kind of lost the Internet back to the capitalist society, which we were hoping to take it back from.

If you read Bernard Hopkins' name in the dictionary, the definition would be 'discipline.'

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

Every actor strives to be in the moment, and when you're on a horse, you constantly have to communicate with it and assert your authority.

When you get on a good horse, you just know. They are powerful, they stop quickly, they can turn in both directions, and they are fast.

I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow.

I'm like a guy hanging down from a horse's belly trying to establish control. On a scale of 1 to 100, I'm at 1, and I'm trying to get to 2. The older I get, the more I enjoy control, because I've lived out of control for a long, long time.

Getting a bunch of horses to just stand there all day and do nothing is much harder than getting them to run around.

When you are the host, you have to take the party into your hands like a conductor.

When you are on the host's seat you have to synchronize with so many things.

There are things I wouldn't do when hosting, like get people up on stage or get the audience doing a sing-song or something like that.

If you look back over my life, there's been a lot of things that have happened that I really haven't had any control over, from my childhood to where I grew up to what went on in the household to stuff with my mother, to my daughter. The list goes on and on.

Someone once described being a Housewife to me as being one big chess game, and in many ways, I guess it is for some people, but not for me.

People think bakers are dainty little housewives but they are not. They are quite controlling people who want to be told that they are loved.

Cities need to act aggressively to hit their housing goals - that's what I'm doing. But I think you want to ensure that you have local control, so you're designing the housing that best fits your needs.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

I think that once you open the door and allow people in on a certain aspect, it's very hard to then control how far that ripple effect is. So I think that the person who is known or famous has the ability to decide what they do or don't want to share.

It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.

Just make sure that you know what's going on with your money and you know where you money is coming from and how much is coming out and going in.

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.