The American people should be informed about what kind of capability terrorists have inside the United States. They should be informed of why we are not using information to do a more effective job of dealing with terrorists.

- Bob Graham

It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.

- David Whyte

If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.

- Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.

- Colin Greenwood

There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that.

- Cillian Murphy

General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.

- Chief Joseph

I'm a huge Twitter dork! That's the best way for fans to keep informed about what's going on with me.

- Brandon Jones

Who cares if a movie star has an opinion unless the person is very well informed?

- Brian Lamb

The most amazing thing you can ask for as an actor from a director is that you're being seen, that the choices made are informed.

- Bertie Carvel

Technology is mostly a force for good, but it has its downsides, too. I want my students - and my readers - to be intelligently skeptical about technology and be informed about the good and the not-so-good parts.

- Brian Kernighan

The first thing anyone can do, about any issue, is get informed.

- Adora Svitak

While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right.

- Bill Dixon

Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.

- Bob McDonnell

I go to my grandchildren. They keep their grandpa informed on what's going on.

- Ben Vereen

No, 'F/X 2' was a job. I enjoyed doing it but that was definitely a job. I wrote that, I didn't direct it but 'Candyman' and the earlier horror movies I made, I was completely into horror and suspense and always have been. It's informed everything I've done, even the way scenes are shot in 'Kinsey and 'Gods and Monsters.'

- Bill Condon

One of the great perks of being an actor is you're only as smart as the job you're in, you know, and you're only as informed as the job you're in, and you do become an expert, and you read all the books, but then there's a part of, like, you move on.

- Amy Ryan

People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.

- Andrea Arnold

I've had a family my entire adult life; I started raising kids when I was 21. I suspect that being part of a family has probably informed my life as a writer as much as anything else has.

- Amy Bloom

Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.

- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I think is the French philosopher, Blaise Pascal.

- Andrea Bocelli