Lines Quotes · Page 47

Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.

— James Wolfe

What I admire most are people who put themselves directly on the line.

— Donald Trump

At the Apple store, the people waiting in line for the iPhone 6 were trampled by the people waiting for the iPhone 7.

— David Letterman

Eat well, sleep and laugh. When you laugh, the lines go up instead of down.

— Carey Lowell

I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.

— Jack Kerouac

There's a fine line between playing with fear and then taking bad plays and playing with no fear.

— Robert Griffin III

Mr. Tulip lived his life on that thin line most people occupy just before they haul off and hit someone repeatedly with…

— Terry Pratchett

In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.

— Frederick Douglass

I was trying so hard. I would memorize the entire script, then I'd be lipping everybody's lines while they were talking. When…

— Will Smith

I've been in this business 25 years. I've been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway... I've seen the unemployment line a lot.

— Viola Davis

It is the best part of the night. The classic interactive lines are 'Where are you from? What do you do for…

— Paula Poundstone

We who walk the narrow line have stood for free thinking for thousands of years. Let us continue balancing within the world…

— Dean Potter

Historically, Labour has used technology as a form of control. We would use pagers and faxes to send out messages telling people…

— Douglas Alexander

I'm not only a writer, but have directed and produced, know the difficulties of the line producer, can deal with the studio,…

— John Lee Hancock

The strategy for peace-building in Afghanistan is economic aid, reconstruction, international security forces. On those lines, the U.S. has been extremely slow.…

— Ahmed Rashid

He looked like someone with a steerage ticket on the titanic. Somebody who'd be standing in line at Ellis Island. Undiluted and…

— Rainbow Rowell

You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly…

— Brigham Young

Muqtada belongs to the most famous religious family in Iraq, which is the al-Sadr family. He's really the third in line. [Muqtada's…

— Patrick Cockburn

It was that summer, too, that I began the cutting, and was almost as devoted to it as my newfound loveliness. I…

— Gillian Flynn

I'm now in my mid-thirties, so I look in the mirror and my face is changing, and I have a different relationship…

— Kristen Stewart

First we start with the lyrics. Most of the lyrics are done by Stefan Kaufmann and me. When we have enough lyrics…

— Udo Dirkschneider

I think a more complex idea of fiction - and the human self's relationship with the world - emerges when we abandon…

— Pankaj Mishra

First you have to witness that you are stressing out: Oh, my trigger is here. The news is stressing me out or…

— Gabrielle Bernstein

Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later,…

— Janet Evanovich

So many actors spend so much energy trying to remember the lines. It's so foolish. Guys are the worst.

— William H. Macy

The bottom line is that it's better to run a workforce on security than insecurity.

— Jared Bernstein

One time he (Cool Papa Bell) hit a line drive right past my ear. I turned around and saw the ball hit…

— Satchel Paige

And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes.

— Taiichi Ohno

I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.

— Natasha Leggero

At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line…

— John Piper

Even if the project requires you to have all the ducks in a line, I can't do that. I don't create way.

— Erykah Badu

I have solved what color is, however ; I still have no idea about what line is.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I did smoke a joint and I did inhale. The bottom line is that's what it was in the '70s, that's what…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

— John Avlon

The whole goal with this thing [Ultra Natural] from the start was to really let rider's style define them and their line…

— Travis Rice

Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.

— Henri Matisse

“The Secret of Drawing consists of just two things: 1) Making lines on paper; and 2) Choosing where they go.”

— James A. Owen

People didn't know the difference between a blue line and a clothes line.

— Al Michaels

We're in the NFL. Everybody that lines up across from you is a talented, paid professional, and you have to treat them…

— Minkah Fitzpatrick

Acting lessons teach you to really listen to what the other person is saying because in acting it's all about responding to…

— Tommy Mottola