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Quotes About Directions

As contamination changes world-making projects, mutual worlds—and new directions—may emerge.
~ Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Goddamn it, do it yourself. You're five hundred years old and you can't use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?
~ Anne Rice
Fate pulls you in different directions.
~ Clint Eastwood
Atoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. It is the job of physics to analyze why each one wants what it wants.
~ Richard P. Feynman
Have you ever held a snake? They are so strong. You can see why there are so many myths about them: they are unlike any other creature. It's extraordinary how that little brain can keep everything moving in different directions.
~ Michelle Paver
road signs pointing to San Francisco and Las Vegas, American cop cars and sixteen lanes of traffic.
~ Robert Muchamore
He's a spider. A web-weaver, with lines stringing out in all directions. He sits at the centre and interprets each tug.
~ Robin Hobb
The days were a gray fog. Faces, familiar and unfamiliar, badgered him for directions, to which his reply was an invariable, laconic, "Suit yourself." Elena would not talk to him at all. He was stirred to fear she was finding comfort in Baz's arms. He watched her covertly, anxious. But she seemed not to be finding comfort anywhere. After
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
The free will of the door, as it were. All doors opened in both directions. She could not open the gate of herself a crack and peek out, and expect to still hold the fortress.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
In his pocket was a letter with directions from the only man he knew would give someone like him a chance.  His former captain in the cavalry knewhow hard and how well he could work. 
~ Louis L'Amour
There are two elevators. One is blue. One is red. When you want to go up, you take the blue elevator. When you want to go down, you take the red elevator. It's that simple. It can't go wrong! The blue one only goes up. And the red one only goes down." And so, at last, Wayside School got elevators. A blue one and a red one. They each worked perfectly one time — and never could be used again.
~ Louis Sachar
They drove past buses that dripped people the way a sponge drips water, and arrived at a thick forest of human beings, a crowd of people sprouting in all directions like leaves on jungle trees.
~ Salman Rushdie
Children aren't helped to become caring members of a community, or ethical decision-makers, or critical thinkers, so much as they're simply trained to follow directions.
~ Alfie Kohn
After leaping from a motorcade car and rushing into the Depository, a reporter asks for directions to the nearest pay phone. Helpful employee Lee Harvey Oswald points him down the hall.
~ Joe Williams
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
~ Henri Bergson
There are always choices in life. People are going to pull you in all directions. Where you end up is a direct result of how wise your decisions are.
~ Colleen Coble
A corner of the night sky, beyond a wall of trees, blooms red. In the lurid, flickering light, he sees that the airplane was not alone, that the sky teems with them, a dozen swooping back and forth, racing in all directions, and in a moment of disorientation, he feels that he's looking not up but down, as though a spotlight has been shined into a wedge of bloodshot water, and the sky has become the sea, and the airplanes are hungry fish, harrying their prey in the dark.
~ Anthony Doerr
We decided to significantly change the nature of the services we are providing to our clients by creating, really, a digital-first company, and digital first in two main directions: first, being the leader in providing digital services to our clients and second, making Accenture the most digitalized organization.
~ Pierre Nanterme
My main problem with fiction is that once my characters get moving, you just have to follow them along and get out of the way of the story, but sometimes they pull me in too many directions, and I need to focus.
~ James McBride
I think The Czars had an identity crisis, as we were five guys pulling in different musical directions.
~ John Grant
It's nice to know that there are several different avenues I could pursue.
~ Bryan Ferry
The Grizzlies organization did a very good job of always pushing us in directions and making us aware of things we might not have been aware of when we were young.
~ Mike Conley Jr.
BJP is a no-nonsense party and once the high command gives directions, it is followed through.
~ Ravi Kishan
If you're texting a friend about dinner, Google will give you restaurant reviews and directions automatically.
~ Om Malik