There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster.

Spry is not a look, spry is behavior.

I've had it happen to me before where it turns out that they never had the money and couldn't have made the movie in the first place. And these are the things you have to look for when trying to read the behavior of the people you sit down with.

There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster.

If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake?

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school.

If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.

There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.

Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adopt building codes to mitigate flood dangers, and the Federal Government agreed to provide insurance coverage to policyholders after a disaster.

We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings.

There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.

First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images.

The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences.

Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

He taught me never to smile, which helps me when I visit disaster sites.

It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.

Turning the Internet over to the U.N. or some other phony international organization would be a disaster, and I am not willing to stand by and let it happen.

The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies.

I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that.

If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.

Weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Islamic extremists will be a disaster for the world.

The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.

One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you look up to Telegraph Hill from there and therefore it would be a disaster to close that view off.

In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster.

Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine.

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.

Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.