Control Quotes

Music can be so disturbing and frustrating. I mean the business side of it. The actual making music part is fun, but the business side of it is just so out of control, has nothing to do with anything.

I have had no control over my life. I have lived in a complete bubble. They found me and picked me for the part. And now I'm desperately trying to find my way through it.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.

I cut the feet out of my control top pantyhose to wear under these white pants and that was the ah-ha moment that started Spanx. My own butt was my own inspiration!

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.

But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.

One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery.

I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.

It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it.

I don't think I have ever been out of control.

The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.

I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control.

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it.

The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is.

My mother emails me stuff about when she finds a paparazzi photo and they're like, his hair is out of control.

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.