Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ang Lee

Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.

Andrew Wyeth

Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.

Robert Henri

Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.

Tony Abbott

Although our powers are great, they are not unlimited they are bounded by some lines of demarcation.

Simon Pegg

You know what, despite my complaints about The Phantom Menace and Episode II, when Episode III comes out I'll be first in line. I genuinely love it.

Simon Pegg

Also, if you watch the film once, there are lots of things that you won't get because there are punch lines in the first act, the setup to which isn't until the second act.

Simon Mainwaring

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

Simon Hoggart

Until now their line has been that the Tories are incapable of doing anything about poverty, and aren't interested in doing it in the first place. By contrast, Labour says, we are also incapable of doing anything about poverty, but would dearly love to do something. If we knew what.

Swami Vivekananda

We are what our considered opinion abide through us; so put up with assiduousness about what you storage. Natter are sub-. Line live; they travel far.

Thorstein Veblen

In aesthetic theory it might be extremely difficult, if not quite impracticable, to draw a line between the canon of classicism, or regard for the archaic, and the canon of beauty.

Robert A. Heinlein

Do this. Don't do that. Stay back in line. Where's tax receipt? Fill out form. Let's see license. Submit six copies. Exit only. No left turn. No right turn. Queue up and pay fine. Take back and get stamped. Drop dead— but first get permit.

Russ Grimm

And no matter how good you are you have to work at it. It's non-stop every day, every day. The best the offensive line feels is when the season starts.

Rupert Murdoch

We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line.

Tony Hsieh

Every employee can affect your company's brand, not just the front-line employees that are paid to talk to your customers.

Tom Welling

I love having time to prepare my lines and more time off.

Ronald Fisher

However, perhaps the main point is that you are under no obligation to analyse variance into its parts if it does not come apart easily, and its unwillingness to do so naturally indicates that one's line of approach is not very fruitful.

Rosalind Russell

I was second in line of defence, behind Myrna Loy.

Sugata Mitra

The bottom line is, if you're not the one controlling your learning, you're not going to learn as well.

Stephen Spender

Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself.

Ringo Starr

I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era.

Tom Stoppard

I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.

Thomas B. Macaulay

The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines in his poems.

Victoria Jackson

The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

Victor Garber

The only set thing I do is that I really, really memorize the lines. I've gotta be so comfortable with the words.

Suzanne Collins

In other words, I step out of line and we're all dead.

Stephen Malkmus

Usually [the lyrics] go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too.

Theodore Roosevelt

To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.

Miranda Hart

It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot.

Mason Cooley

There is a line between a definite maybe and an indefinite yes.

Mary Karr

We are in the grip of some big machine grinding us along. The force of it simplifies everything. A weird calm settled over me from inside out. What is about to happen has stood in line to happen. All the roads out of that instant have been closed, one by one.

Martha Quinn

I did go through a period where I was on unemployment. That was my low point: Martha Quinn on line at unemployment, hoping nobody will recognize her.

Patricia McCormick

I imagine you working on me as an algebra problem, reducing me to fractions, crossing out common denominators, until there's nothing left on the page but a line that says x = whatever it is that is wrong with me.

Lorrie Moore

A funny line can never exist on its own. It needs to be surrounded by mood and circumstances.