Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristotle

For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.

Ben Murphy

We're going down there, line up and play. I don't look at it as a challenge. I look at it as an opportunity.

Ian Mckellen

I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.

Gloria Gaither

When we're in trouble, it's usually a line from a song that saves us. I wish it was sermons, but, I'm sorry, it's not. When you're in crisis, what comes to mind is 'O love that would not let me go.' You know?

A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't.

When a new line or product comes out there are problems they have to work out.

Vin Scully

One of my favorite expressions ever uttered by a player is Roy Campanella's line about how, in order to be a major-league player, you have to have a lot of little boy in you.

Cheech Marin

Don't ever insult a Chicano about being a Chicano because then all the other Chicanos will be on you with a vengeance. They will even fight each to be first in line to support you.

We had a pretty steady stream from the beginning. We only had a line at the beginning, but it's slowed down.

Whereas this summer, we'd line up receivers and run the same route over and over and over and over. And then, we'd switch to the next route and run it over and over.

Alberto Manguel

There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.

Athol Fugard

'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There's a thread running down the Fugard line of alcoholism. Thankfully I haven't passed it on to my child, a wonderful daughter who's stone-cold sober. But I had the tendency from my father, just as he had had it from his father.

Aaron Patzer

Tell your idea to whomever will listen, and you'll get valuable market feedback before writing a single line of code.

A. R. Ammons

In nature there are few sharp lines

Adrian Rogers

Christianity is not a cafeteria line where you say, “I’ll have a little salvation, but no Lordship right now.

Aleksandar Hemon

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

Balthazar Getty

Tired of Being Sorry' is one of the lines everyone can relate to.

John Wright

Tim should be able to give us a line on what they did and then it's up to our side to perform.

The discovery of heroes is rarely linear or obvious. They usually sneak up on you.

Mario Lemieux

I thought the other lines were pretty good, as well. We'll see what happens.

I think we got the line a lot more than we have been. We played more aggressively.

Teemu Selanne

We are just playing so well right now, and we have lots of confidence. This team is unbelievable right now. Every line is doing their job.

Cornelia Funke

Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!

Colin Mochrie

I'm a traveling practical joker. That's my line of work.

We shot ourselves in the foot. Going 3-for-10 at the line (down the stretch), we should have been down by 40.

We've just got to make sure we're lined up right.

With special teams it's the first time we've practiced with lines - ever. Now we practice wide side of the field, short side of the field. With hash marks you can run full-blown practices without getting out cones and saying, 'This is a hash mark.' You can do situations a lot easier.

We've noticed, when we've had our lines rolling all the way through, we've been playing well. Everyone's playing well together and working well.

Gary Oldman

A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you're writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don't have to do it over.

Bruce Vilanch

Every single line on the Oscar show is negotiated. Unless you've been there, you have no idea how it is put together. It's like nothing else on earth. I'm writing a book about it, but I have to throw in my sexual escapades to make sure it sells.

There are hundreds of picket signs lined up and ready to go.

There are isolated, scattered situations of stations running out (of gasoline) and lines forming, but it's nothing I would characterize as a region-wide or metropolitan-wide,

We thought the testimony was mostly in line with what people expected.