Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Karr

We are in the grip of some big machine grinding us along. The force of it simplifies everything. A weird calm settled over me from inside out. What is about to happen has stood in line to happen. All the roads out of that instant have been closed, one by one.

Martha Quinn

I did go through a period where I was on unemployment. That was my low point: Martha Quinn on line at unemployment, hoping nobody will recognize her.

Ted Turner

There's a fine line between being colorful and being an asshole, and I hope I'm still just colorful.

Theodore Roosevelt

To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.

Henry Ford

The workingmen have been exploited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody.

Malin Akerman

Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.

Mahatma Gandhi

Satan's snares are mostly subtly laid and are the most tempting when the dividing line between right and wrong is so thin as to be imperceptible.

Johannes Stark

The movement of the emitters of the spectral lines may be deduced on the basis of the Doppler principle.

Joe Posnanski

There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway?

Joan Jett

Success isn't one straight line - it's a ladder, and there's always another rung above you to reach out for. Like anything else, there are ups and downs.

Heidi Klum

I'm European. I don't like wearing tops. And I don't like tan lines.

Ned Beatty

I was born just barely south of the Mason Dixon line.

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.

Neil Gaiman

I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line.

John Noble

I don't know where the line is. I don't know how much of myself is in Walter. There's got to be a bit of him there.

John Steinbeck

The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.

John Steinbeck

The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.

Nicholas Ray

My affection for CinemaScope initially was my affection for the horizontal line as I learned it from having been apprenticed to an architect who was someone named Frank Lloyd Wright.

Socrates

You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.

Theodore Roosevelt

We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth.

Michael Eisner

It doesn't matter whether it comes in by cable, telephone lines, computor, or satellite. Everyone's going to have to deal with Disney.

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.