Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Badnarik

The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves.

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.

Plato

I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word.

Martin Scorsese

The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.

Lance Burton

One of the funniest lines in my show was written for me by Alan Bursky. I really want to learn this routine!

James Fenton

At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.

James Fenton

I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.

Libba Bray

The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one,” Dr. Poblocki said. “When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?

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.

Norah Jones

For me, there's a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer.

Miranda Hart

It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot.

Meagan Good

I love creme liner because I have lash extensions and sometimes the liquid liner can get into the lashes. It's also easier to guide. I can create straighter lines with it.

Maureen O'Hara

I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.

A second round is definite. One can read in between the lines that none of them will be able to obtain the required votes to win outright,

Rain will be as heavy, if not heavier. You don't want to be walking around out there with possible downed power lines and debris. It's not over until it's over.

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.