Lines Quotes · Page 46

Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect.

— Shaquille O'Neal

Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves

— Christine Baranski

Mass inflation, welfare line, gross economy, trade it all for what's behind curtain number three.

— Joe Walsh

When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.

— Courtney Milan

(As) a director who is a writer, I have respect for writers, so I'm less likely to step on an idea or…

— Ben Affleck

“99% of natural poets discovered their talents through love letters.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I'm so hungry," Amy said sleepily. "Hey, you stole my line," Dan said.

— Anonymous

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

— Anthony Storr

However, perhaps the main point is that you are under no obligation to analyse variance into its parts if it does not…

— Ronald Fisher

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love my dad. He's the biggest thing in my life. He taught me and he straightened me out and he kept…

— Anthony Perkins

It's a fault line where the flotsam and energy that washes up from the Pacific collides with all of urban America crashing…

— Antoine Predock

I feel like everything you learn as an actor growing up is wrong. You're supposed to hit your mark, find your light…

— Joaquin Phoenix

[On her political writings:] It is, I confess, very possible that these my Labours may only be destined to line Trunks, or…

— Mary Wortley Montagu

When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself - the…

— Rachel Carson

The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into…

— Oscar Wilde

My kids are obviously growing up very privileged, but I want them to have a servant's heart. We do community service as…

— Kelly Clarkson

Despite his consistent party-line voting record, some independents and Democrats still think of Senator McCain as the most palatable, independent-minded Republican. But…

— Sarah Vowell

Public lives are lived out on the job and in the marketplace, where certain rules, conventions, laws, and social customs keep most…

— Robert Fulghum

I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write…

— Neil Gaiman

It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she…

— Isabel Allende

No, that nurse ain't some kinda monster chicken, buddy, what she is is a ball-cutter. I've seen a thousand of 'em, old…

— Ken Kesey

I tell you (dogmatically, if you like to call it so, knowing it well) a square inch of man's engraving is worth…

— John Ruskin

It’s interesting to look at your children as line-in Zen masters who can put their finger on places where you’re resistant, or…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line.

— Quincy Jones

This is like being in the super bowl. It's first down, you're on the one yard line, You either make a touchdown…

— Joe Teti

There are air-quality issues that cross state lines. There are water-quality issues, obviously, that cross state lines.

— Scott Pruitt

I never sought to be the ingenue, purely because they never seemed to get the best lines or looked as if they…

— Nicola Coughlan

Our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes and I see many of them in the audience here today.

— Barack Obama

I'm generally somebody who hopes for the best. It's not what one ought to do in my line of work [screenwriting], but…

— Jonathan Tropper

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

— Van Morrison

I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time.

— Albert Pujols

I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think…

— Charles Kuralt

There's a very fine line between anxiety and excitement. If you don't let anxiety stop you, you can nudge it over the…

— Robert Anthony

I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.

— Campbell Newman

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…

— John Noble

Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea…

— Stan Smith

Actors need to know why they're saying what they're saying, more than just learning their lines.

— Dee Rees

There are different types of readers. People draw lines at which three things intersect: the character, the author, and the reader.

— David Bezmozgis

In America, we're trying to find a peaceful solution in the Middle East, and we're not going to be divided along any…

— Darrell Issa