Lines Quotes · Page 64

George Brett could roll out of bed on Christmas morning and hit a line drive.

— John Schuerholz

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?

— Jean Genet

This is the line of life, this is the line of growth, and this is the line of well-being in India -…

— Swami Vivekananda

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

— Ellen Goodman

If you want to know who was better, me or Willie Mays, you have to look at our career stats. And Willie's…

— Mickey Mantle

Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.

— Robert Englund

I do a lot of things wrong. I lose my temper, and I hate waiting in line, but do I take drugs?…

— Debbie Reynolds

A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy…

— W. C. Fields

I am aware that somewhere along the line, I've subconsciously turned down the pitch of my speech, like a silencer of a…

— Koren Zailckas

The fuzzy boundary lines between different readership ages have always puzzled me, so these days I just write what comes, and assume…

— Julie Berry

[To her younger sister on using drugs:] If you do that stuff, you're dancing with the devil, because you never know when…

— Demi Lovato

All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we…

— Ernie Pyle

Adam Smith actually took all his best ideas and lines from sources from medieval Persia. But one thing he doesn't take is…

— David Graeber

Look back. Look back at me." Richard Armitage spoke this line in the movie North and South as he watched Miss Hale…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

When I was writing my first draft, and feeling grandiose, I e-mailed an artist/clothing designer I know and suggested we collaborate on…

— Heidi Julavits

My part had three lines. I said, You look wonderful, sir, three times. All my friends said, Do not take that role…

— Jeffrey Tambor

I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of curves and…

— Oscar Niemeyer

I'll join you, sir. You'll need help finding your way about the estate."His lips tightened into a disapproving line. "Begging your pardon,…

— Sabrina Jeffries

Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the…

— Lillian Hellman

Brand-name growth stocks ordinarily command the highest p/e ratios. Rising prices beget attention, and vice versa - but only to a point.…

— John Neff

She lowered her head until it was at his level. He stroked the line of her jaw, and then pressed his forehead…

— Christopher Paolini

In the minds of many Western politicians, military interventions and air strikes appear to have become legitimate policy tools since the NATO…

— Vladimir Yakunin

I believe I'm very conscious of exactly what I'm doing. I'm auditioning lines of dialogue, and I'm interrogating whether the lines would…

— David Bezmozgis

He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end-…

— Ivan Turgenev

I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to…

— Fran Drescher

Advertising works most effectively when it's in line with what people are already trying to do.

— Mark Zuckerberg

That's the beauty of starting lines: Until you begin a new venture, you never know what awaits you.

— Amby Burfoot

Happiness is not about the trophy, or the finish line. It's the journey. If you enjoy your journey, you can enjoy your…

— Pharrell Williams

There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.

— Salman Khan

Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.

— Lark Voorhies

As for waxing, I've never waxed in my life and I never would. I'm extremely Welsh, so I draw the line at…

— Matthew Rhys

The bottom line in all of it is that, in life, it's all about people.

— Colin Powell

Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It's beautiful.

— Lynsay Sands

Everyone thinks softball is a girl's game. But you only think that until you get hit with it on a line drive.

— Jerry Smith

From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.

— Saul Bellow

I heard my brother's voice even though we were apart. I then answered the phone and found him on the line.

— Maurice Gibb

The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating…

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.

— Edward Abbey

The bottom line for everyone is I'm not good enough. It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

— Louise Hay

I feel one step closer to Beyoncé now that we both have our own clothing lines.

— Bethany Cosentino