Lines Quotes

Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like soap bubbles.

There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.

There's a fine line between balanced journalism and trial by television.

I honestly think that a Pavlik fight would be easier than Jones because styles make fights. He's one dimensional, comes in straight lines, I love that.

Here's the bottom line, we're either going or not.

This is like being in the super bowl. It's first down, you're on the one yard line, You either make a touchdown or you're hosed.

Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an anxiety.

The bottom line on attitude is that a good one helps to increase your possibilities. Pessimists usually get what they expect. So do optimists.

Learn your lines.' I want that on my gravestone.

[Dennis] Etchison would write stories that were just punch lines at the end. You wouldn't realize something horrific was happening until the last paragraph.

I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of a scene is usually the tenth or so draft.

The big hang-up was George Bush wanted to get life lines, you know, so he could call somebody.

I'm dreading the time that is not near As a man on a cross I have no fear I can't believe these words I'm saying You've got to feel your lines

Margo says, "I know what she's talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It's like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don't meet up right.

We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and what we are now.

Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty; Our hard, stiff lines of life with her Are flowing curves of beauty.

If you come up with a new product, you can very easily track its contribution to the bottom line. But often the challenge can be both large and subtle.

Seaboard Air Line, which was thought by numerous innocents to provide a foothold in aviation, was another favorite, although, in fact, it was a railroad.

For me, the measure of a poem is the word, not the line.

Mexico takes a hard line on immigration, demanding that visitors to her shores enter lawfully, and show her respect during their stay.

I like to learn the lines and not get any precontrived things in my head about the part. Just get on stage and see what the other actors are doing, and respond to them as honestly as I can.

You know I used to be the back porch poet with my book of lines, always hoping knowing all the time, I'm probably never gonna find the perfect rhyme. . .For heavier things

Now that we have the line-item veto there is no excuse for Congress to put pork in and no reason for the president not to line-item veto it out.

As part of Social Security reform, I believe that private savings accounts are a part of it - along the lines that President Bush proposed.

A factory worker at an assembly line, who can learn their job in 5 minutes, can get bored fairly easily, and disengage completely.

With no bottom line, it's hard to know wrong from right. But I ain't ever satisfied.

In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government

The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California

I don't know where the line is. I don't know how much of myself is in Walter. There's got to be a bit of him there.

I don't think I'm identified as the anchorman, I think I'm identified as the impostor anchorman - there's a very clear line there ... I don't think it changes the way they respond.

There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan today.

Maybe, I got a sense when [Star Wars] came out, and there were always these lines around the block. We didn't understand the popularity of Cheers until maybe five years into the series.

Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.

Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.

The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.

My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our economy

It was kind of a prodding myself to play I Walk The Line straight.

I admit I'm a fool for you, because your mine, I walk the line.

One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from.

It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes.

I come from a long line of saloon keepers and proselytizers, and I draw from both sides.

I think morality is so individual and personal, and people draw their own lines of what that means for them.

Somewhere along the line, I conditioned myself to be a quick thinker. I take a step back and try to assess the situation, then make the best decision possible at the moment.

I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.

From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines.

I'm generally somebody who hopes for the best. It's not what one ought to do in my line of work [screenwriting], but it is what I do.

I hang my laundry on the line when I write.

The EU is on the brink of becoming a European Federation by the year 2010... I feel sure that Britain will fall in line.

I spent several years cooking on a line.

I've forgotten lines all the time. Sometimes I switch verses in a song. It's just hard not to when you're doing the same thing all the time.