Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Julianne Moore

Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.

K. Eric Drexler

Nature draws no line between living and nonliving.

Kathryn Stockett

And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.

Judy Horacek

The line between angry young woman and grumpy old lady is very fine.

Paul Klee

A line comes into being. It goes out for a walk, so to speak, aimlessly for the sake of the walk.

Haruki Murakami

Shakespeare said it best,' Tamaru said quietly as he gazed at that lumpish, misshapen head. 'Something along these lines: if we die today, we do not have to die tomorrow, so let us look to the best in each other

Gustave Flaubert

A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.

Gray Davis

Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.

Lupe Fiasco

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

Meg Rosoff

Somewhere along the line I'd lost the will not to eat.

Edward Dmytryk

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

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.

Richelle Mead

Rosemarie you are out of line

Richelle Mead

My life didnʹt need to be on the line for me to enjoy dessert.

Richelle Mead

This wasn’t the first time I’d been pulled out of bed for a crucial mission. It was, however, the first time I’d been subjected to such a personal line of questioning. “Are you a virgin?

Renee Zellweger

I'm not single, I'm busy. That's my line.

Russell Brand

I didn't cross the line, you drew it in after I traversed it.

Pieter Zeeman

The magnetic cleavage of the spectral lines is dependent on the size of the charge of the electron, or, more accurately, on the ratio between the mass and the charge of the electron.

Walt Whitman

From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.

Roger Scruton

There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure

Robert Smithson

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.

Rob Marshall

I'd much rather fail than do something like 'The Chorus Line' movie, sanitized and Hollywoodized.

Richard Francis Burton

The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of infinite line Whose ends are nowhere, is thine all , the puny all thou callest thine.

Richard Powers

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

Tracy Morgan

I'm not really much into politics, because it's rarely discussed in my line of work.

Robinson Cano

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

Vivien Leigh

I always know my lines.

William Hogarth

Straight lines vary only in length, and therefore are least ornamental.

Warren Buffett

Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

And, for instance, Baptists, Adventists, Lutherans, Pentecostals - let them exist on line with others.