Famous Quotes & Sayings

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?

Renee Ellmers

And my principles go right in line with the Tea Party.

All in all, the report was pretty neutral. Everything pretty much was right in line with expectations.

Jacques Lacan

As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.

Jon Corzine

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

Louis Menand

Cognitive science is a rapidly developing area, so it could be that there are some surprises around the corner. That does seem to be kind of where the trend line is leading.

Lupe Fiasco

For me, I walk a line of fame and infamy. I walk the line of celebrity and non-celebrity.

We don't want to use our pavements as a linear landfill, just to get rid of things. Some things simply shouldn't be in there.

Aaron Smith

You get to the point where you're not thinking mentally straight because you are worried about getting back, getting lined up. You're not thinking about the little things that go on.

It is the responsibility of the person who is shooting to be sure that they have a safe target and that there is nothing in line with that target that they don't want to shoot, especially another hunter.

This is the first negative trend line we have had in anything since accountability began.

This is right in line with other towns, and lower than many, such as Wilton and New Canaan. We had a very successful teachers' negotiation this fall.

This is stupid stuff. It's more than stupid. I was in line all day, and it's aimed at all old women.

This is one of the very-easy-to-interpret reports. In this one, everything lined up like the planets.

Stephen Malkmus

Usually [the lyrics] go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too.

Scott Adams

There's a fine line between participation and mockery.

Ray Kroc

I put the hamburger on the assembly line.

Robert Henri

Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.

Tablo

Maybe the start line was supposed to be your finish line. Don’t be afraid to walk backwards.

Tacitus

Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.

Ron Wyden

Let's hold insurance companies accountable the right way by making them put their whole customer base on the line.

Rollo May

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

Rollo May

The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line.

Stephenie Meyer

The bottom line is that you have to choose who you are going to commit to-- that's the foundation of true love, not the lack of other options

Thomas B. Macaulay

The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines in his poems.

Woody Allen

Meanwhile, the minute you put on the dotted line your Sam Hancock - and before a notary - you'll not only get the negative but Elsie makes a wonderful stuffed cabbage which we'll include gratis a few portions but return the jars please.

William Whewell

Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.

William J. Clinton

Follow the trend lines, not the headlines.

Wietse Venema

As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.

Warren Gatland

Sometimes you have to put your balls on the line.

Robinson Cano

I want to hit line droves. I want to hit my doubles, my singles, get on base.

Robert Mueller

The 19 hijackers that came over here to commit the attack on Sept. 11, there were those that were at the bottom of the line. There were those who were the principal conspirators. There were those who were the pilot. Everybody has a role.

Richelle Mead

Rosemarie you are out of line