Quotes About Control

They been callin up here, asking when I am gonna get out. When I hit bricks, it all belongs to me.

When you watch a Hitchcock movie, you feel like learning back because there's a master in control.

When I look at my numbers, I don't give up a lot of hits.

I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.

I typically opt for a fade when I'm hitting into greens. It's just an easier shot to control.

I feel like people often say I am not good at controlled shots or hitting it low, and I feel I'm very good at it, just don't need to use it as often.

Tennis is a running game, not a hitting game - it's not golf.

I have been working with Hive, part of British Gas, on reinventing the thermostat. Now you can control your heating at the press of a button on your phone. As I say, design should permeate every part of society.

It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.

I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame.

Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.

I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way.

I'm a freak when it comes to holding on the ground; it's just almost impossible holding me on the ground.

You can't hit someone if they're holding on to you.

The only thing that holds the government back from just going ballistic on us is the Second Amendment. When we become disarmed, it's over. It's over.

I think this applies to a lot of things in life. When things aren't going well, you start to worry about things you can't control, and it also holds true with baseball.

To play as an anchor man you have to be extremely disciplined and a lot of the time you're attracted to the ball but can't go there because if you don't get there or it breaks down there is a hole.

Holly and Hef were obviously the main relationship. We weren't allowed to date or anything like that.

The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema.

Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.

What I learned from my go-round with 'In the Heights' is that it's tough to make a movie. In Hollywood, even the people in charge have people in charge.

I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'

We have to face the fact that meaningful gun control has to be a part of homeland security.

I think what I learned in research is that as Americans, we're very distrustful of anger. We're not sure if we should repress it. The idea that anger is supposed to be controlled is American, and we try to keep it out of our homes.