“Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera.” KnowsShouldLongEyeActorsLinesBoysKnow HowMembersLong TimeShotsCamerasHandleCrewElectrician Author:Jodie Foster
“When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.” Has BeensTwoLinesBoysPaperLogicBasesDistancePhilosopherInvisibleCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningVisibleFountainPencilsStraight LinesNothing NewOntology Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I close my eyes and can see men drawing lines in the dust. America pushes through the membrane of mist and smoke, and I'm a small boy again in Bogalusa.” MenEyeAmericaLinesBoysDrawingDustSmokeMistMembranesDrawing The Line Author:Yusef Komunyakaa
“I remember my first commercial. This is really great 'Degrassi' trivia: The character Toby on 'Degrassi,' played by Jake Goldsbie, he and I were in both of our first commercial ever when we were four. It was for Tiger Toys, this old Game Boy-type thing. Both of our lines were, 'Mommy, I can do it!” FirstsI CanCharacterRememberGamesCan DoLinesBoysFourTypeToysReally GreatTigersI Can Do ItJakeTriviaToby Author:Charlotte Arnold
“From the minute we're born, boys and girls stare at each other, trying to figure out if they like what they see. Like parade lines, passing each other for mutual inspection. You march, you look. You march, you look. If you're interested, you stop and talk, and if it doesn't work out, you just get back in the parade. You keep marching, and you keep looking.” IfsTryingLooksGirlBornLinesBoysMinutesFiguresDatingWork OutPassingPassingsStaringMutualMarchGet BackParadesBoy And GirlInspection Author:Paul Reiser
“Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.” FeelsShouldChildrenLittlesEyeVoiceLinesBoysFourWonderfulToughMarkMiseryHis EyesSpokesWhiskeyLittle BoysWhiskyScotch Whiskey Author:Martha Gellhorn
“An optimist is somebody who thinks our various political and social systems, schools and churches, support groups and Boy Scout troops, jury trials and congressional committees, are on the up-and-up. That they are intended for the benefit of the members. The reality is that they are designed to keep everyone in line.” ThinkingRealitySchoolPoliticalSocialChurchLinesBoysSupportGroupsMembersBenefitsVariousTrialsTroopsCommitteesOptimistJurySocial SystemsBoy ScoutSupport GroupsCongressional Committees Author:Jack McDevitt
“From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.” ArtSaidWholeNamesWaterBornLinesChancePoorBoysSeaDyingFieldsRiversLaysLipsCaughtFishesBoatStreamsLakesFishingSwimShoreEstatesHookInheritancePreyMy BoysPasturesOxen Author:Ovid
“I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran quickly down the hallway? The boy ran down the marble hallway? I agonize over the words. So my editor works very hard. I'm lucky to have her.” IfsWritingI CanHardShowsMovingLinesBoysStruggleLuckyDrawsRanEditorsPencilsMarbleHallways Author:Brian Selznick
“I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.” PeopleLinesBoysPaperStonesSandAltered Book:The Illusion of Separateness Source: The Illusion of Separateness
“At the G-20 summit, the White House accidentally listed a phone-sex line for journalists seeking an on-record briefing call for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. To which Bill said, 'Boy, did they get the wrong number.'” SaidStatesHouseSexLinesWhiteNumbersBoysRecordsBillsClintonPhonesSeekingJournalistWhite HouseSecretarySummitBriefingWrong Number Author:Jay Leno
“I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?"” PeopleWayLinesPleasureBoysHopefullyBass Author:Lauryn Hill
“A lot of people think they can write poetry, and many do, because they can figure out how to line up the words or make certain sounds rhyme or just imitate the other poets they've read. But this boy, he's the real poet, because when he tries to put on paper what he's seen with his heart, he will believe deep down that there are no good words for it, no words can do it, and at that moment he will have begun to write poetry.” PeopleThinkingWritingTryingBelieveHeartRealMomentsCertainSoundCan DoLinesBoysFiguresPoetPaperThat MomentRhymeDeep DownGood Words Author:Cynthia Rylant
“The scene at a certain time was definitely boys; those huge warehouses were kind of violent parties, even. I think people in your immediate community made a nightlife scene that actually did break down gender roles and were along different lines of identity that had to do with race and experience in the '90s, rather than gender.” PeopleThinkingKindMadeDifferentCertainCommunityLinesPartyRaceBoysRolesBreakIdentityHugeSceneGenderViolentBreaking DownGender RolesWarehouseNightlife Author:Le1f
“I want to do a jean line for boys and girls that are sometimes too skinny to fit into jeans, or sometimes a little bit too husky to fit into some jeans.” WantLittlesSometimesGirlBitsLinesBoysFitLittle BitJeansSkinnyBoy And GirlHuskies Author:Mark Indelicato
“The old actors in the old days, they used to go on tour, to get the play ready for the West End, and to learn their lines. The old timers used to say, "Be very careful, dear boy, what you get in to during the first weeks of a long tour."” FirstsLongEndsPlayUsedActorsLinesBoysWeekReadyGoes OnWestDearCarefulOld DaysOld TimeTimerWest EndOld Timers Author:Tom Courtenay
“Basically for everything that comes out of Five Four, I've come up with the idea or changed it in some way. I'm also working with Putnam Accessory Group, a private label hat manufacturer. I'm in the process of re-branding a line they have called Chuck. It was mostly hats and bags, but I'm adding apparel and eyewear and whatever I feel like adding to turn it more into a brand. I'm supposed to be working with Pharrell on Billionaire Boys Club, but that's on hold.” WayFeelsIdeasTurnsProcessLinesBoysFiveFourGroupsChangedCome UpClubsBrandsLabelsSupposed To BeHatsBagsBrandingBillionaireChuckAccessoriesApparelEyewear Author:Mark McNairy
“I remembered getting the script for the auditions [of Aladdin], I had asked someone there if improvs were allowed, and he said everyone is sticking to the script. I said to myself that they are either going to love me or hate me. I was crossing out lines and throwing in my own lines. I went into the room and started doing things. They were like, "This boy is nuts! We should keep him." That's how it all came about.” IfsShouldSaidHateLinesMy OwnRoomsBoysScriptsRememberedThrowingNutsAuditionsCrossingsHate MeLove Me Or Hate MeLove Or Hate Me Author:James Monroe Iglehart
“Kids are growing up and they don't know the difference between fact and fiction. The line is getting blurry. I can handle it, you know; I'm a big boy. And the entertainment industry has always been crazy. But the problem is, it spills over into some very serious issues, in politics and real newsworthy stuff.” KnowsI CanRealFactsProblemBigsKidsStuffDifferencesLinesFictionBoysGrowing UpIssuesGrowingCrazySeriousIndustryEntertainmentHandleSpillsEntertainment IndustryBlurrySerious IssuesNewsworthyFact And Fiction Author:Rob Lowe
“She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous lines, by boys... It had all been pure vanity, all just a wish, in these waning days of hers, still to feel power, still to have the assurance of her beauty and its effects.” FeelsStillsWishLinesBeautyBoysEffectsPureDustVanityAssuranceReservedHumiliatingHer BeautyOlder WomenAmorous Author:Elizabeth von Arnim