Line Quotes - page 4

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. (Samuel McChord Crothers)
Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree. View quote
Howard Nemerov
I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer. View quote
Anita Hill
I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line. View quote
Bo Jackson
Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises. View quote
Colin Mochrie
The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people. View quote
Dan Castellaneta
You have to visualize a second or two ahead of your car what line you are taking, what you are going to do, before you get there because it comes too fast. View quote
Emerson Fittipaldi
One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way. View quote
Fritz Kreisler
It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on. View quote
Floyd Abrams
Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place. Princess Cruises, who I now represent, is the fastest growning cruise line in the world. View quote
Gavin MacLeod
A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would. (Kent McCord)
I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise. View quote
Leo Kottke
By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There's no specific line, as you know. View quote
Leo Ornstein
The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small. View quote
Peabo Bryson
I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics. View quote
Robert Vaughan
Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems. View quote
Sidney Blumenthal
You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment. View quote
Stephen Breyer
I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land. View quote
Harriet Tubman
We must never give a free hand to those who want to subjugate us, draw this line so that New York will never become New Mecca. View quote
Geert Wilders
There is a thin line between passion and gas. View quote
Jeff Goldblum
Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line. (Anthony Kennedy)
Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are dismantled and dilapidated, ignorance and vice will pour in their legions through every breach. View quote
Horace Mann
The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world – that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand National or an attack in force on the Maginot Line, is held to be of more importance than the event itself. View quote
James Agate
Each generation thinks it invented sex; each generation is totally mistaken. Anything along that line today was commonplace both in Pompeii and in Victorian England; the differences lie only in the degree of coverup - if any. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle. View quote
Alain de Botton