Dictating Quotes

#1. I've been dictating to my son, who's helping me on his computer. I'm spending a lot of time doing research
I've just got up to 1971, when I went crazy and dived through the window. My life is so full of interesting stories ...

Ozzy Osbourne

#2. The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle. The most successful manager leads without dictating. This is intelligent non aggressiveness.

Laozi

#3. Tomorrow's leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre - from the heart

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#4. Elizabeth found that nothing was beneath this great lady's attention, which could furnish her with an occasion of dictating to others.

Jane Austen

#5. When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof! ...

Thomas Carlyle

#6. Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it, God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.

Sinclair Lewis

#7. If any generation of men ever possessed the right of dictating the mode by which the world should be governed for ever, it was the first generation that existed; and if that generation did it not, no succeeding generation can show any authority for doing it, nor can set any up.

Thomas Paine

#8. I wouldn't want to have the thought police going to people's homes, dictating what they teach their children. I don't want to be Big Brotherish. I would hate that.

Richard Dawkins

#9. Our possessions are dictating our free time. Sundays used to be for relaxing and eating, and now they're spent cleaning the garage. --pg55

Cristin Frank

#10. My father's films are often very slow for the modern audiences, which are used to a lot of editing. It's the audience that watches the film instead of the director dictating the reaction he wants from you.

Isabella Rossellini

#11. As the author you know how you want it to appear on screen and it's always the content dictating the form.

Woody Allen

#12. As long as gas is cheaper than bottled water, we can't be in a position of dictating to the consumer what to buy.

William Clay Ford Jr.

#13. Dictating condolences to the mother of a murdered husband whom you've been busily cuckolding for the last three years would take more than his limited social vocabulary.

P.D. James

#14. Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of ordinary speech is usually corrected when it's transcribed into written prose.

Joyce Carol Oates

#15. People don't want Congress dictating what light fixtures they can use.

Joe Barton

#16. Never place a time limit on the healing. That is dictating to the spiritual intelligence that does its perfect work when it is not impeded by your questions and false beliefs.

Raymond Charles Barker

#17. Jesus Christ, will you quit dictating this conversation to Hannah?' I grumble. 'Bros before hos, dude.'
'Call my girlfriend a ho one more time and you won't have a bro.

Elle Kennedy

#18. [Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy.

Dorothy Parker

#19. A moment from another world! Imagine a reporter dictating an exclusive story, a lead story, sourced from the President of the United States, from a telephone just off the White House dance floor to the strains of Lester Lanin's dance band.

Ben Bradlee

#20. Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.

Oscar Wilde

#21. We are not dictating. We are not telling them [Saudi Arabia] how they should do it or who they should look like. We are their friends. We have mutual interests and we will help them in any way that is possible.

Colin Powell

#22. To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.

Zoltan Kodaly

#23. I wouldn't want the federal government dictating how I use my cameras, every community has their own issues and their own dynamics.

Kenneth R. Miller

#24. I think that's a question for South Carolin and the last thing they need is people from outside the state coming in and dictating how they should resolve that issue [about flag].

Ted Cruz

#25. 4chan is a framework of pictures and text. I've always been extremely hands-off with dictating what gets posted, past general categories and rules. I support providing a place to discuss anything, although I don't agree with everything that's posted.

Christopher Poole

#26. My boss is dictating my preventive hangover care, and I just used the word swords in reference to his obvious cockfight with the man I just made out with in a public hallway. I am truly in an alternate universe.

Lisa Renee Jones

#27. The problem is, I think, that so many of us pray as if we are ordering groceries. We pick up the telephone and say, 'Is this the right place to place my order?' and we proceed right to dictating our order. When we have then ended that list, we hang up.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#28. Later, dictating the tale into his comlog, the Consul remembered it as a seamless whole, minus the pauses, hoarse voice, false starts, and small redundancies which were the timeless failings of human speech

Dan Simmons

#29. I don't know whether crime is dictating business or business is dictating crime.

Andrew Dominik

#30. How do these people have any credibility? How do they get away with this? It's mind boggling that its gotten to a point where the EPA is dictating policy based on what is an obvious fraud, or if you want to be gentle about it, creates enough doubt to back off.

Joe Bastardi

#31. ... Language shows a tendency for the words "good" and "stupid" to come [close] together... a hint of contempt... within these term[s]... [dictating that] the good man must always be unthreatening.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#32. I have 3,000 penalty minutes. I don't need people dictating to me how to do my job.

Tie Domi

#33. Sometimes you have the feeling that some little imp is standing behind you and dictating to you, but he gives it to you slowly, drop by drop.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#34. Germany is dictating its policy in Europe

Christopher A. Pissarides

#35. There's a difference between, you know, God loves unconditionally in my feeling and religion loves conditionally. Religion spends an awful lot of time dictating who God can love and can't love.

Sinead O'Connor

#36. He can't quite picture God except as a huge ball of light with an old man's deep voice like in the pickup truck ads on TV coming out of the ball of light dictating the way everything in Eden is supposed to work.

Russell Banks

#37. This wasn't about an infraction, but dictating a philosophy of life: certain types of people must be overseen.

Victor LaValle

#38. I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

Peter Fonda

#39. The president really shouldn't be involved in terms of dictating what course the investigation should take.

Janet Reno

#40. I have actually been very fortunate to be able to make films on my own credit card without having huge funders behind me dictating how the story should be told.

Jehane Noujaim

#41. One of the major problems leading to the breakdown of society is that we have far too many opinions dictating life choices and not enough truth mandating them.

Tony Evans

#42. I was dictating to my mother when I was 5.

Judith Rossner

#43. In the name of being social, we learn to ignore our natural instinct.
Society keeps dictating do's and don'ts which we keep obeying day in and day out.

Chitralekha Paul

#44. Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

Joe Klein

#45. There is no room for dictating taste in the diverse and dynamic world of media. To limit taste only limits the role we play for people of all kinds.

Lachlan Murdoch

#46. The beautiful thing about marriage is the right it gives me to monogamy. One man intent on dictating my whereabouts is enough, wouldn't you think?

Courtney Milan

#47. I would not waste time, as Senator Gillibrand does, on things such as dictating a national minimum driving age and sponsoring a 'National Day of Play.' I'd help New Yorkers understand that we get less in value from Washington than what we send there in taxes.

Wendy E. Long

#48. We do not want to believe that we cannot control alcohol and that alcohol is, in truth, controlling and dictating our lives. When you free yourself of a dictator, like alcohol, the freedom that you experience is totally amazing and so empowering. You get your life back.

Liz Hemingway

#49. This is why fashion is such a magical part of our lives, for it inspires our decisions without dictating them; it sets the theme but not the limits of our aesthetic.

Simon Van Booy

#50. I find dictating in the mass media particularly good because you're writing for voice anyway; you're writing for people to say a line and, consequently, saying a line through a machine is quite a valid test for the validity of what you're saying.

Rod Serling

#51. I hate Science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast.

Basil Bunting

#52. Asking questions will get you the performance you are after far more than dictating demands.

Dan James

#53. The point all these people had in common was how little freedom they seemed to enjoy. They were grappling with their beliefs, and these beliefs restricted their choices by dictating their behavior.

Laurent Gounelle

#54. We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives.

Mike Peters

#55. If anything is going to halt necessary investments in next generation networks it will be Congress dictating business models to companies.

Claudia Jones

#56. All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different.

Annie E. Clark

#57. Of course I will be dictating to you, Savannah. But please do not worry. I can assure you, I am quite good at it.

Christine Feehan

#58. Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.

Geraldine Ferraro

#59. Sometimes I pine for the era of Miss Manners, when there were hard and fast rules dictating a well-bred individual's behaviour in any given situation.

Lynn Coady

#60. In catering, you're always changing; the client is always dictating to you in terms of their wishes.

Carla Hall

#61. I was 4 and dictating stories into a tape recorder, and my mom typed them up.

Shonda Rhimes