The Line Quotes
I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.
There are subtle things you can do without crossing the line. If I see I've got up my opponent's nose, I will be over the moon. Job done.
Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid!
I'm being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save in the bottom line, I lose in a million other ways.
I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.
It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball.
The bottom line is that we've had enormous successes (in Iraq) and we will continue to have enormous successes.
The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.
Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.
But I'm thrilled to be employed, and to work with all my friends and people that I admire. You're just lucky to work - that's the bottom line.
I wanted to play for the New York Yankees. That was the bottom line. I wanted to be there and play in that new stadium.
My mother's bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.
I have been running so sweaty my whole life Urgent for a finish line And I have been missing the rapture this whole time Of being forever incomplete
I look at my kid, and one part of me wants to keep her as my little baby. But, y'know, the bottom line is she's 18!
The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, 'Global warming is a hoax,' he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of climate scientists.
Nice friendship is like the breathing air, you will never see it but you will always feel its presence.
The bottom line is, if every single platinum song right now wasn't auto-tuned, then I would be like, "I can't be a rapper."
Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.
We believe that a company's obligations extend far beyond its bottom line and its shareholders - to a wider constituency that includes employees, customers, suppliers, and the community.
I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.
I wasn't going to let Jerry Sloan embarrass me, because basketball had a proper role in my life. I suspected my basketball philosophy wasn't the bottom line anyway.
It'd be nice if Asian actors could be perceived as profitable, which is the bottom line. We're perceived as not mattering much fiscally.
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the last couple of meters - is what motivates me.
Best friends are people you know you don't need to talk to every single day. You don't even need to talk to each other for weeks, but when you do, it's like you never stopped talking.
A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart
My bottom line is that I think Ridley Scott is one of the greatest visual artists of our time and I feel very privileged that he wants to work with me, so I go with that flow.
The bottom line is we must get off our duff and make an effort to succeed. Trust me on this, when you see someone successful in any of the arts they have been willing to make an extra effort.
And bottom line, without John by her side, everything seemed to be just a big, resounding meh.
Either I did away with that fear through writing, or in the course of writing, I discovered it was no longer so intrusive or threating. The bottom line is, it's gone.
A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive assembly line. They were cranking out 10 songs a day in that studio, or more.
I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
At least in a race you have mile markers and know how long you have to go. Labor is like running as hard as you can without knowing where the finish line is.
The bottom line is down where it belongs – at the bottom. Far above it in importance are the infinite number of events that produce the profit or loss.
