Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Stewart

Typically, when you're with your friends, premises are coming up left and right. But when you're on stage, you must create the premise. So you have to create the premise, paint the picture and then deliver the punch line.

Johannes Stark

The movement of the emitters of the spectral lines may be deduced on the basis of the Doppler principle.

Joe Posnanski

There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway?

Sugata Mitra

The bottom line is, if you're not the one controlling your learning, you're not going to learn as well.

Stephen Spender

Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself.

The lines between a listening service and a distribution service have been blurred.

The lines are really blurring between toys and gadgets.

The lines are all back up: you get around. All that wood is still sitting in the woods. I don't know what they'll do with it.

Richard Corliss

The line readings of Portman and Lloyd are often flat, or flat-out wrong.

The line in the sand for the CWCB is the nighttime flow.

Warrick Dunn

The line has to make their calls, like who they've got if a safety comes up.

Randall Jarrell

if sometimes we are bogged down in lines full of "corybulous", "hypogeum", "plangent", "irrefragably", "glozening", "tellurian", "conclamant", sometimes we are caught up in the soaring rapture of something unprecedented, absolutely individual.

Ned Beatty

I was born just barely south of the Mason Dixon line.

Richard Powers

Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.

Joni Mitchell

You know that it never has been easy Whether you do or do not resign Whether you travel the breadth of the extremities Or stick to some straighter line.

Jonathan Tropper

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.

Kevin Corrigan

When I was working on Big Fan, I didnt really feel like any lines needed to be changed or enhanced or expanded upon in any way. I thought it was a solid script. All you had to do was what it said.

Kunal Nayyar

I would definitely line up for 'The Lord of the Rings.' I'm a huge 'Lord of the Rings' geek.

John Green

standing in line is a form of oppression

All the power lines and things aren't tightened up and it's popping them around.

Edward Thomas

A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

Edward Dmytryk

I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines.

John F. Kerry

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

Joel Courtney

I can't draw a straight line to save my life. I just can't draw.

Joan Rivers

Bo Derek turned down the role of Helen Keller because she couldn't remember the lines.

George Ade

Those having the most time to devote to a line of endeavor usually become the most proficient.

Joan Jett

Success isn't one straight line - it's a ladder, and there's always another rung above you to reach out for. Like anything else, there are ups and downs.

Heidi Klum

I'm European. I don't like wearing tops. And I don't like tan lines.

Leo Ornstein

By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There’s no specific line, as you know.

Lyndon B. Johnson

If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Gay Talese

The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm

Fridtjof Nansen

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

Fridtjof Nansen

Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong. Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.