Top 575 Directly Quotes

What I love about YouTube is that you don’t need brands to pay you, because you get paid off the views. When I put effort into YouTube, I directly see money back.
Jake Paul
Parenthood is so wild in its ability to put a mirror directly in your face and force you to look at yourself long and hard. What a challenge this is, but also what an exhilarating gift.
Eva Amurri
There is simply no plausible construction of the known evidence that leaves out Novak either providing a proffer through his lawyer of what he would say if he testified or having testified directly.
Michael Isikoff
This global pandemic isn’t just claiming lives directly from the virus – it is taking a massive toll on Queenslander’s mental health.
Annastacia Palaszczuk
The columnists have a very personal relationship with their readers, and the readers deserve to hear directly from the columnists.
Andrew Rosenthal
The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also for military requirements not directly related to these conflicts.
Russ Feingold
The muscles are connected with the bones, cartilages, l

The muscles are connected with the bones, cartilages, ligaments, and skin, either directly or through the intervention of fibrous structures called tendons or aponeuroses.
Henry Gray
I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.
Joan Didion
What was done is measure directly, with exquisitely sensitive instruments, gravitational waves predicted about 100 years ago by Albert Einstein. These waves are a new way to study the universe and are expected to have significant impact on astronomy and astrophysics in the years ahead.
Rainer Weiss
A user who essentially costs YouTube money has very little say. The way to have a say is to concretely support the creators and channels you watch directly by giving them money.
Freddie Wong
The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.
Khaled Hosseini
President Obama is a gifted politician. He is gifted with rhetoric virtuosity. He is gifted with the ability to lie directly to camera without blinking. And he is gifted with some of the most incompetent conservative opposition in the history of the country.
Ben Shapiro
Meetings should be great – they’re opportunities for a group of people sitting together around a table to directly communicate. That should be a good thing. And it is, but only if treated as a rare delicacy.
Jason Fried
I don’t comment directly on actions or statements of candidates.
David Petraeus
Long-term unemployment is particularly costly to those directly affected, of course. But in addition, because of its negative effects on workers’ skills and attachment to the labor force, long-term unemployment may ultimately reduce the productive capacity of our economy.
Ben Bernanke
I think that’s the beauty of elections: You can’t hide from who you are. The more honestly and directly you communicate to people why you’re doing this, the way in which you want to serve them, I just think that the better, more informed decision that they can make.
Beto O’Rourke
When people think of Mozilla, they generally think of the browser, but Mozilla is really much more than that. Mozilla is of interest to people who want an end-user application like our browser that’s not tied directly into the Windows platform.
Mitchell Baker
I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
Tanith Lee
An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.
Louis de Bernieres
In all the years that I’ve been in football – I went directly from coaching to broadcasting – I never really had a lot of experience watching it.
John Madden
Nick Cardy’s work helped define some of the things we see in comics today and take for granted. He broke out of the mold in terms of covers and layout and created a truly interactive experience for the reader that directly points back to his time with the Eisner studio.
Jim Lee
For the people to hear directly from their president, no matter what format that is in – whether it’s through social-media platforms, whether it’s through speeches, whether it’s through interviews – that’s always a positive.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Only when you are self-employed do you fully realize how much more efficient you become when your output directly correlates with how much money you make.
Ronald Kessler
When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.
Haruki Murakami
I want my music, whether it’s sung by other people or sung by myself, to affect the way the Top 40 radio sounds. I want to heavily influence it with things that have come directly from my brain.
Charli XCX
Some people say I don’t love the French national team. If that were the case, I would have said so directly to the coach, because I’m a big boy.
Karim Benzema
Again and again, I’ve seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies – assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged.
Paul Begala
I make it a point to go home every weekend so I can meet with Georgians and hear from them directly.
Johnny Isakson
People go to Disney because they know its brand attributes. We believe we have an opportunity to go with our content directly to consumers.
Bob Iger
Music for me has always been something that is directly connected to my heart.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
If they’re out of high school, and they can go directly to the NBA and get drafted and get millions of dollars, I’m for it 100 percent. Just let’s not devalue education. Let’s just not devalue it.
John Calipari
When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged – directly to the people of Alaska.
Sarah Palin
Finding creative and effective ways to simultaneously give back and economically empower people is something that is increasingly important. Not everyone can open a business and directly create jobs in the way that we have at Red Rooster Harlem.
Marcus Samuelsson
In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.
Andrew Coyle Bradley
Doing interviews about my films really bothers me sometimes, because I have to speak directly and clearly about things I’ve intended to keep ambiguous, and in a way, I feel like I’m betraying my film.
Asghar Farhadi
Dad had a way of disarming people because he never really directly attacked them. He might attack a principle, but he never attacked the individual.
Martin Luther King III
All the money that’s donated to the Trevor Project provides resources that directly affect the youth that actually watch my videos. It’s a cool thing to see them basically provide resources for each other.
Tyler Oakley
People need to take as much interest in other sports as

People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that’s where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It’s a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first.
Gagan Narang
Our financial system is driven by a giant marketing machine in which the interests of sellers directly conflict with the interests of buyers.
John C. Bogle
Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.
Leon Kass
Marrying video, sound, and words can create incredibly compelling storytelling, and when you add the political piece, you get a special combination: stories directly impacting the democratic process. It’s a unique responsibility and one I’m passionate about.
Hallie Jackson
There was a time when content could be manipulated with money, but today we have surpassed that. Now, only good content will create ripples and strike a chord because the artistes are connecting directly with their listeners through social media.
Jubin Nautiyal
Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly employed by the federal government shrank. One of the factors that explained the difference was contracting.
Thomas Frank
It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies have shown that laughter is beneficial for every system in the body.
Allen Klein
Throughout my work, I have assumed that the standard model is correct, and hence, the Higgs boson should be found. Although this is not directly connected to string theory, the discovery of the Higgs boson demonstrated the power of theoretical reasoning.
Ashoke Sen
Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.
Chris Christie
Coming from the Eastern Cape, it’s one of the most poverty-stricken provinces in the country, so whether it be in education or something else, I’d like to go directly there and help because I’ve seen it first-hand and experienced it.
Zozibini Tunzi
Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don’t believe that the bigger your platform is, the more people will pay attention.
Larry Norman
England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more directly about my own experience, it wasn’t England so much as what went before.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala