Quotes by Lines Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it. Thomas Jane linesactorscharacter Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough. Thomas Hardy linesstressfeelings ...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all. Thomas Hardy curveslinesmath To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American. Theodore Roosevelt equalitylinesracism Being a movie star is stressful as hell. You've got to do crunches all day long. You've got to get up and learn lines. Thomas Lennon linesstarslong Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere. Thomas Mann spheresdistancelines You cant drag people from understanding to action. A customer isnt actually at the last mile if youre the one dragging her to the finish line. Thomas P.M. Barnett linesunderstandingpeople There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery. Thomas Pynchon linesdecisionreal Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time, you dig? But the time is arbitrary. You pick your zero point anywhere you want, that way you can shuffle each person's time line sideways till they all coincide. Thomas Pynchon arbitrarylineszero It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that as yet we have found it better to trust the public judgment, rather than the magistrate, with the discrimination between truth and falsehood. And hitherto the public judgment has performed that office with wonderful correctness. Thomas Jefferson abuselinesoffice If we examine ourselves carefully we shall see most of us have an enormous amount of unfinished business...We have to be free so that we can just step across the line and that's it. That is what real freedom is. Thomas Merton unfinished-businesslinesreal There's a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses. If you're a little ahead of your time, you're an eccentric, and if you're too late, you're a failure, but if you hit it right on the head, you're a genius. Thomas Watson, Jr. linesgeniustoo-late 'Global warming' is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible. Thomas Sowell global-warminglineslong 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. Thorstein Veblen canonlinesmight I think, in comedy, timing is everything. You and I could tell the same joke, but if one of our timing is off, it won't be as funny. You've gotta know when to deliver your punch-lines. T.I. comedylinesthinking I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure. Tiki Barber success-and-failurelinessports Not surprisingly, as the pioneer theme is presented, each goes back in memory to his or her own family line. There are usually examples to identify and which fit the definition of a pioneer: "one who goes before, showing others the way to follow." Some, if not all, made great sacrifices to leave behind comfort and ease and respond to that clarion call of their newly found faith. Thomas S. Monson sacrificelinesmemories We sold more iPads in the last quarter alone than any PC manufacturer sold in their entire line. Tim Cook ipadslineslasts I feel very fortunate to be an actor on a network whose tag line is Characters Welcome and not Procedurals Welcome. Tim DeKay linesactorscharacter I'm attacking the basket more. Because I'm more comfortable on the line, that's an area I want to get to. Tim Duncan linesbasketballwant«107108109110111112113114115116117»
