Line Quotes

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

And it was, it was not beating George Bush, believe it or not, the bottom line as far as I was concerned was introducing to the public who Gerry Ferraro was.

The bottom line as far as I was concerned was presenting to the public who Gerry Ferraro was.

If you want to relate me to the newer cats, let's go. Let's go line for line and bar for bar. If it's all about spitting and metaphors and MCing and lyrics and entendres, I will eat 99 percent of you dudes up.

Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

I spent several years cooking on a line.

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment.

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that.

I think the bottom line for me and for Newsweek is that there were a lot of - we did retract this specific matter about the Koran and the toilet for the reasons that you just cited.

But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position?

The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

I'm useless at staring at a piece of white paper. But if you put a piece of white paper with a black line on it in front of me, I'll say no that black line should be red and it should go this way or that way.

If I was on a third or fourth line I would probably be in the NHL, because you don't have to produce every night.

There's the psychotic ambitious side of myself that wants a fashion line and my own network and be like a combination of Oprah and Gwen Stefani. And have a perfume. Definitely a perfume.

It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.

Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died.

I am working on a dress sock line of funky, colorful, cool designs.

Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.

I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.

I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.

Ensure your employees understand what your brand stands for so they can be your first line of word-of-mouth advertising.

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

I would definitely line up for 'The Lord of the Rings.' I'm a huge 'Lord of the Rings' geek.

The ABA works tirelessly in its efforts involving the first line of defense: the prevention of burn injuries.

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

The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.

Local teenagers killed in a car crash is a suburban legend, a stock plot line.

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.

Where I've arrived now is the product of mixing the very straight with the very exploratory; there's a fine line between the two, although it tends to be getting straighter and straighter because my songwriting is getting better.

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.

I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.

The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier.

This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.

I have a red line against the Americans.

Each and every Notary Public plays a crucial role in combating identity theft. They serve as our front line of defense and the public is safer because of the job they do.

The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, 'Global warming is a hoax,' he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of climate scientists.

It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.

When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.

There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.

When you're on the road, you have to be louder and you have to communicate. That's really the bottom line.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.

There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.

The real bottom line is, the national unions want their hands on the money.

Too many girls follow the line of least resistance but a good line is hard to resist.

At the end of the day, if you can't say a line right, it does not matter who your contacts are.

It is in line with the fundamental interests of the two peoples for China and Afghanistan to strengthen a strategic and cooperative partnership, which is also conducive to regional peace, stability and development.

The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors.

But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.

And, for instance, Baptists, Adventists, Lutherans, Pentecostals - let them exist on line with others.

For those people who don't know what Whiteboy clothing is, it is not a white-supremacy thing. It is a great clothing line that just says, 'Have fun.'

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.

I got a hat deal with Resistol, where I have my own line of cowboy hats.

I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice.

I think political correctness is a moving line.