So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you’re talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent. – Talib Kweli
On a submicro scale, pure diamond is billions of billions of carbon atoms bonded to one another. If you shrunk yourself down and stood inside the diamond, you’d see nothing but carbon in a perfect pattern in every direction. – Sam Kean
My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins. – Youssou N’Dour
Being obsessed by goals is bad for you. You should set goals, even ambitious goals, regularly. But focus on them only to the extent that they give you direction. – Srikumar Rao
Life is full of borders. Some of them, once crossed, can never be crossed again in the other direction. But there are new countries to discover across every one. – Tim Pratt
I’m a total rink rat. I can do the toe loop, the lutz, a flip, and the Scholz. That’s one I invented. It’s like me – you jump, you rotate in the wrong direction, and you land on the wrong foot. – Tom Scholz
Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical. – Tullian Tchividjian
I look forward to representing the voters of District 30 and moving the state in a new direction. – Ted Deutch
Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn’t have – until recently – were proper instruments for incentivizing the judiciary. That’s what the ‘kids for cash’ judges were apparently experimenting with. – Thomas Frank
There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation. – Umberto Eco
Any vehicle that conveys great songs and the ability to perform them, whether it’s ‘N Sync or the Backstreet Boys or One Direction, is all good. – Tommy Mottola
Everything that is somehow related to direction and filmmaking fascinates me, like cinematography. – Sushant Singh Rajput
The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind. – William Falconer
Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges. – William Falconer
Direction coupling between the various radiations generated in a nuclear reaction both with one another and with the initiating radiation can also be detected and measured by coincidences; this provides valuable information about the structure of the atomic nuclei. – Walther Bothe
A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature. – Trevor Nunn
There’s more outrage on Twitter about a One Direction split or about what one band member said to another than there is about institutionalized racism and something huge. – Trevor Noah
It takes little talent to see what lies under one’s nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. – W. H. Auden
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend. – Walter Savage Landor
Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it. – Stephen Baker