Direct may refer to:
- Direct current, a direct flow of electricity
- Direct examination, the in-trial questioning of a witness by the party who has called him or her to testify
- Direct sum of modules, a construction in abstract algebra which combines several vector spaces
- Direct (Vangelis album), 1988 album by Vangelis
- Direct (EP), a 2002 EP by The 77s
- Direct (Tower of Power album), 1981
- DirectX, a proprietary dynamic media platform
- Mars Direct, a proposal for a manned mission to Mars
- DIRECT, a proposed space shuttle-derived launch vehicle
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Famous quotes containing the word direct:
“An inexperienced heraldist resembles a medieval traveler who brings back from the East the faunal fantasies influenced by the domestic bestiary he possessed all along rather than by the results of direct zoological exploration.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.”
—Guy Debord (b. 1931)
“One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)