Famous Quotes & Sayings

John F. Kerry

The big hang-up was George Bush wanted to get life lines, you know, so he could call somebody.

Joel Courtney

I can't draw a straight line to save my life. I just can't draw.

Joan Rivers

Bo Derek turned down the role of Helen Keller because she couldn't remember the lines.

George Ade

Those having the most time to devote to a line of endeavor usually become the most proficient.

Gay Talese

The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm

Fridtjof Nansen

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

Fridtjof Nansen

Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong. Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

Haruki Murakami

Shakespeare said it best,' Tamaru said quietly as he gazed at that lumpish, misshapen head. 'Something along these lines: if we die today, we do not have to die tomorrow, so let us look to the best in each other

The lines between a listening service and a distribution service have been blurred.

The lines are all back up: you get around. All that wood is still sitting in the woods. I don't know what they'll do with it.

All the power lines and things aren't tightened up and it's popping them around.

Edward Thomas

A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

Edward Dmytryk

I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines.

Helen Mirren

I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them.

John Mayer

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.

John Mahoney

I like to learn the lines and not get any precontrived things in my head about the part. Just get on stage and see what the other actors are doing, and respond to them as honestly as I can.

Charles M. Schulz

Charlie Brown got hit with a line-drive!" "Does anyone here know anything about first-aid?" "It's probably not serious... Second or third-aid will do.

We're still moving. Truck lines are getting a little long and some frustration is building, but things are moving.

Rain will be as heavy, if not heavier. You don't want to be walking around out there with possible downed power lines and debris. It's not over until it's over.

The second and third lines were outstanding. They played really tough. They're playing really aggressive, and that's what we're going to need to qualify for the tournament.

Richard Briers

I used to make minor alterations and often shorten lines that were rather literary to make them more naturalistic. But my contribution was very small.

Derrick Jensen

The big dividing line is not and has never been between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or between mainstream and grassroots activists. The dividing line is between those who do something and those who do nothing.

Damon Lindelof

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

Billy Bob Thornton

Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears.

Elizabeth Edwards

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.

Dan Harmon

There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.

Ani Difranco

Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate.

Doug Stanhope

There's a fine line between being a sicko and an adventurous spirit.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.

Angela Sarafyan

I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.

Anita Hill

I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.

Anthony Hopkins

Working with Katherine Hepburn, she said to me, "Don't act." She said, "Read the lines. Just be. Just speak the lines." I said, "Okay." She said, "You look good. You got a good pair of shoulders, you got a good head, good face."

Anthony Hopkins

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.