Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Shorter

It’s making a statement about what life is, really. And I’m going to end the line with it.

Samuel Beckett

What is that unforgettable line?

Wendy O. Williams

Its not that I dont value my life. Its just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.

William Cowper

Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood.

Van Morrison

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

Warren Zevon

But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.

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.

Victoria Jackson

The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

Victor Garber

The only set thing I do is that I really, really memorize the lines. I've gotta be so comfortable with the words.

Ronald Fisher

However, perhaps the main point is that you are under no obligation to analyse variance into its parts if it does not come apart easily, and its unwillingness to do so naturally indicates that one's line of approach is not very fruitful.

Rosalind Russell

I was second in line of defence, behind Myrna Loy.

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.

Pearl S. Buck

In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.

Paula Poundstone

When we live up to our Constitution, let's form a Conga line around the Capitol and bungee jump off the dome.

Peter O'Toole

It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines,

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.

Larry David

Woody Allen likes to do a lot of master shots. He likes to get the whole thing in one take, and so you could be going along doing a scene, and then the next to last line, all of a sudden, you stumble, and you have to go back to first base.

Suzanne Collins

In other words, I step out of line and we're all dead.

Stephen Malkmus

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

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

Tony Abbott

Although our powers are great, they are not unlimited they are bounded by some lines of demarcation.

Thorstein Veblen

In aesthetic theory it might be extremely difficult, if not quite impracticable, to draw a line between the canon of classicism, or regard for the archaic, and the canon of beauty.

Robert A. Heinlein

Do this. Don't do that. Stay back in line. Where's tax receipt? Fill out form. Let's see license. Submit six copies. Exit only. No left turn. No right turn. Queue up and pay fine. Take back and get stamped. Drop dead— but first get permit.

Ringo Starr

I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era.

Tom Stoppard

I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.

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.

Tony Hsieh

Every employee can affect your company's brand, not just the front-line employees that are paid to talk to your customers.