Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

- Margaret Atwood

Workflow and usability are not afterthoughts; they impact the core of any project and dictate how it should be engineered.

- Ryan Holmes

It's a cliche, and in a way it's a conservative idea about fiction, but I did learn the hard way that plot does need to dictate the story.

- Rachel Kushner

I don't think that it's up to government to dictate what people should wear.

- Richard Dawkins

Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God; have your faith in him. That's where my faith lies.

- Ray Lewis

Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.

- Prince

You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule.

- Michael McKean

I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices.

- Mary Stuart Masterson

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

- Maya Lin

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

- Max Planck

History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.

- Al Davis

I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.

- Magic Johnson

Agribusinesses should never dictate the quality of school meals.

- Jared Polis

I will not let my sales figures dictate what I say on the blog, because the blog is what I want to say.

- John Scalzi

Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't.

- Jesse Eisenberg

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

- Friedrich Schiller

I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.

- Dan Hicks

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

- David Lynch

As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.

- Camille Paglia

The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.

- Bernie Worrell