The Line Quotes

People are waiting in line for 15 years before they get rejected, O.K.? That's why people don't want to invest in America.

As far as the anxiety, I have no idea about it. I don't feel like I have any nervousness out there. I'm just a guy who really cares about being competitive and that's the bottom line.

The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are still walking around.

I like most everything about my various jobs. The bottom line is I'm really fortunate to get paid to cover sports.

If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one line of one poem, you'll be very lucky indeed.

The bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of drama is to be truthful. You can be truthful and funny, but if you're not truthful in a drama than the audience leaves you.

You think that the only thing that counts is the bottom line! What a presumptuous thing to say. The bottom line is in heaven.

Czech Republics worst pick up line: What's a nice place like this doing around a women like you?

When you have grown accustomed to sitting and meditating, try to stop your thoughts. That's the bottom line in meditative practice.

Film-making is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.

The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.

The bottom line for me is that life is short and art is long.

And it was, it was not beating George Bush, believe it or not, the bottom line as far as I was concerned was introducing to the public who Gerry Ferraro was.

Age doesn't matter. Obstacles don't matter. Winning is the challenge. Bottom line, inspiring others is the goal.

As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.

I think that you can say something in one line with a look that you might need three lines on a page for normally.

Reaching the finish line, never walking, and enjoying the race. These three, in this order, are my goals.

Most of today's film actress are typical of a mass-production age: living dolls who look as if they came off an assembly line . . .

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.

Success is empty if you arrive at the finish line alone.

Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand.

We eat and sleep and shuffle through the fog, walking a marathon with no finish line, no medals, no cheering.

The Bottom Line: If people don't LOVE our work, we will not be able to sell what we make.

I have very little interest in the bottom line or signing artists to help make the label profit. That's a lucky, unique position to be in, but it all comes out in the wash.

I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.

You write to be read. That is the bottom line.

I like letting takes play out, beginning to end. I don't like doing pick-ups of one line or another. I like letting the actors discover the flow of the scene, inside the scene as a whole.

That same preface also contains a single line that really does sum everything up: 'Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.'

I'm proud of what I have accomplished so far in my career, but the finish line is nowhere in sight. Still, it's fun to look back before we move forward.

The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.

The bottom line is, you can't be afraid to fail.

Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.

When you raise prices, you've got to make sure you get it to the bottom line. You can fritter it away because of the way you're running the business, with maybe not a totally disciplined approach.

The bottom line is just that Rickey Henderson was my favorite player. His flair, his style-the key word is impact-he's an impact player.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Sometimes, I'll read a news story and there will be one line about something else, and I'll find it interesting and look into it. That can often turn into an entire story on its own.

The American dream is not a sprint or even a marathon but a relay.

We hide so well. This is the bottom line: how hidden is male subjectivity? Name five books where male subjectivity is produced in an honest way.

For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.

The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line.

You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?

I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.

The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter.