Michael Haneke Quotes

I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.

I think I'm too much of a control freak.

Maybe I'm a control freak.

For me, I'm a bit of a control freak.

I do know I'm a control freak.

Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent.

I'm not a control maniac.

My instinct is to be very controlling.

I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.

I'm completely aware of the fact that I'm a control freak.

I can be just a touch controlling!

I'm a little bit of a control freak.

I'm a bit of a control freak, and I had to realize you can't control everything in your life.

When you're type A you always think you can fix anything. Sometimes there's nothing you can do.

I'm not saying I'm a control freak, though I'll admit that I am at times.

I do like things the way that I like them. But I'm trying not to be - I don't wanna be that way. I'm not a control freak; I wanna protect my agency. It's a weird question as a black woman.

I'm a massive control freak.

I'm kind of a control freak. But there are others like me.

What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam.

I'm basically a control freak. It's not because I want to be. I'm not at all into the power play that's involved in it.

There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I've always been too confrontational, especially when I know I'm right.

How do I speak Spanish? Not too well. Paz taught me a few words that, if people weren't nice to me, I could tell them a few things. I got to study with [chef] Thomas Keller, who we all love as a guy and Jim had a relationship with him at [his restaurant] the French Laundry.

The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.

We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly.

My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.