Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Pollan

You have to draw lines between being a journalist and an activist.

Michael Pollan

The corporatization of something as basic and intimate as eating is, for many of us today, a good place to draw the line.

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.

John Green

standing in line is a form of oppression

Lisa Kleypas

I’ve never had any objection to appearing depraved or villainous. But I draw the line at looking like a prize idiot.

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.

John Mayer

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.

John Mahoney

I like to learn the lines and not get any precontrived things in my head about the part. Just get on stage and see what the other actors are doing, and respond to them as honestly as I can.

John Linder

Mexico takes a hard line on immigration, demanding that visitors to her shores enter lawfully, and show her respect during their stay.

Justin Guarini

There is a fine line between assertiveness and being relaxed.

Lars von Trier

I encouraged the cast to make up their own lines.

La Monte Young

Draw a straight line and follow it.

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.

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.

Kenneth Rexroth

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.

Jenny Holzer

There's a fine line between information and propaganda.

Jenny McCarthy

You don't need a pickup line. Just glance at a woman from across the room. Glance - don't stare.

Paul Hawken

The bottom line is down where it belongs - at the bottom.