“I didn't hit one three-pointer in college, and a couple of those were right on the college three line. I didn't feel comfortable much outside of 12 to 15 feet. Now, I really feel comfortable from the wing and the corner area out to 18, 19 feet. I'm going to keep working and continue to improve it.” FeelsThreeLinesFeetCollegeCoupleComfortComfortableAreasWingsCornersPointers Author:David Lee
“Every time I step in between those lines, I'm in the zone. If you get between me and the ball, you might get smashed a couple times. Things happen, plays happen.” IfsPlayMightHappensLinesStepsCoupleBallsThings HappenZone Author:Carli Lloyd
“My material never comes out verbatim every time. I always tweak in a line, or tweak away a line, gain a couple tags or lose a couple tags. The timing is always off.” LosesLinesMaterialsCoupleGainsTimingTagTweak Author:Gabriel Iglesias
“Sometimes I just start humming something, find a melody I like a lot, and if it sticks around for a couple days, a few words will lock themselves into place. I might just get the first line. Then words just keep falling into the syllables. The choruses kind of write themselves and verses I have to work at a little bit.” IfsWritingFirstsKindLittlesSometimesMightFallBitsLinesCoupleLittle BitSticksMelodyVersesLocksChorusSyllablesFew WordsHumming Author:Jack Johnson
“In America, where you'd have thought the country's so huge it couldn't happen quite so cosily, everyone's giving his imprimatur to everyone else. You line up three or four well-known poets and a couple of eminent academics on the dustjacket, and the rest of academe follow like sheep. That's death really, if you take pleasure in it. Mind you, the occasional puff's hard to resist, but you shouldn't inhale.” IfsGivingMindWellsCountryHardHappensAmericaThreeLinesPleasureKnownFourPoetHugeCoupleSheepWell KnownOccasionalPuffInhale Author:Michael Longley
“I draw the line at some things. Some things I won't do for any amount of money. Like for instance, there's a couple of CEOs of very large corporations that offered me lots of money to do special pictures for them. And I just refused to do that. Even if it was a million dollars I wouldn't do it.” IfsLinesMillionsSpecialAmountCoupleDrawsDollarsInstanceCorporationsLots Of MoneyCeoMillion Dollars Author:Robert Crumb
“Sometimes you're noodling around with a sketch and something incongruous in the drawing calls forth the caption and other times you think of a line and just have to find a place for it. A cartoon with a caption like "I don't want to live forever, but I sure as hell don't want to be dead forever either" sprang into my head and I just had to find the right venue for it which was an old couple talking to each other.” ThinkingWantSometimesLinesTalkingHellForeverCoupleDrawingCartoonLive ForeverVenuesCaptionOld Couple Author:Robert Mankoff
“Comedy is very interesting because you can very quickly cross into dangerous territory. I mean look at what happened, unfortunately, (in) Paris a couple of weeks ago. They were making comics - which were really satire - but it offended people. I'm not saying the reaction was justified but there's definitely a line when you're doing comedy or satire and how it might affect somebody. That's the thing you have to watch and I think you have to be respectful of it.” PeopleThinkingLooksMeanMightLinesInterestingWatchesComedyHappenedWeekDangerousCoupleCrossesReactionsParisSatireTerritoryJustifiedOffendedVery InterestingRespectfulBe Respectful Author:Corbin Bernsen
“I'll generally write out every scene that's in the film on a couple of pieces of paper, just with a little one-line. And then I can scan it a bit and go, 'This first third of the film, generally, I'm kind of calm.' Then I might do something on one piece of paper that just relates to the energy of the character.” WritingFirstsKindLittlesI CanCharacterMightFilmEnergyBitsLinesPiecesCoupleScenePaperThirdsCalmRelateOne PieceOne Line Author:Guy Pearce
“I'm a good collaborative writer. I can usually come in and add a couple lines to something, and add a riff or a B-section, or a bridge that will tie things together. I can do stuff like that. But to write a whole song, I don't have the patience for that, I guess.” WritingI CanWholeTogetherSongStuffCan DoLinesCoupleAddBridgesTiesSections Author:James Young
“Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.” EndsCharacterActionLinesCoupleDumbExplosions Author:John Cusack
“It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Oglivy, but a few lines of print and a couple of faked photographs would soon bring him into existence... Comrade Oglivy, who had never existed in the present, now existed in the past, and when once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar.” PersonsPastLinesExistenceCoupleEvidencePhotographForgottenPrintComradeJuliusForgery Author:George Orwell
“Professor Irwin Corey had some of the best timing in the world, and that is something you can't steal. He talked nonsense, not punch-lines, per se. It was a great performance thing he did and his timing was impeccable. Pat Paulsen was a master of comedy too. The Smothers Brothers' strength was not in the content, but how it was said. We had a couple of our albums, including the Purple Onion album, translated in script form. It didn't work at all. It is no wonder that writers had a hard time writing for the Smothers Brothers, because they wrote impressions, but there was something else.” WorldWritingSaidHardFormLinesWonderComedyBrotherMastersCouplePerformancesIncludingScriptsAlbumsStealingImpressionHard TimesNonsenseProfessorsTimingPurpleOnionsImpeccableGreat Performance Author:Tommy Smothers
“It's the way I make music, I will take two ideas and smash them together and if they sit well together for me then that's fine, and it's the same with the lyrics - if I see a couple of lines and I like the way they look on the page then I'll use them. I find they take on a meaning of their own, it's very difficult to explain how I actually go about all that.” IfsWayWellsLooksTwoIdeasUseTogetherDifficultLinesFineCouplePages Author:Thighpaulsandra
“Well, there's lots of different things going on at the moment, I'm in talks with some people from Japan to do something and I'm also talking to Hugo Boss to do a very small line, which I want to keep to just 10-12 pieces, but what I want to do is sit with the designers for a couple of days bashing some stuff out.” PeopleWantWellsDifferentMomentsStuffLinesTalkingPiecesCoupleDesignerJapanDifferent ThingsBoss Author:Jay Kay
“Speaking as someone who bought the party line for far too long, you would be amazed what you can believe if you keep convincing yourself the press, the libs, the universities - hell, everyone but a few on the religious fringe and big business - are out to get you. I was lucky - I started to snap out of this a couple of years ago and hopefully will now apply to both major parties the same skepticism and cynicism I had in the past reserved for Democrats.” IfsYearsBelieveLongBigsWould BePastReligiousLinesPartyHellCoupleLuckyMajorsYears AgoPressesDemocratUniversityHopefullyCynicismSkepticismAmazedConvincingFringeReservedSnapsBig BusinessConvincing Yourself Author:John Cole
“I bailed out on social media for a while, and in short order I found I was able to sit down and read a book again. For the first time in a couple years I could read more than three pages without my brain wandering off into the ether. I drew a direct causal line between all this sort of ratta-tat-tat staccato stimulation that we get from the Internet and my growing inability to sit down and read anything that was longer than 500 words. But for me it came back because those synapses were already latent in my brain.” YearsFirstsBookAbleOrderThreeFoundSocialLinesBrainGrowingMediaCoupleInternetPagesFirst TimeDirectDown AndSocial MediaWanderInabilityStimulationLatentSynapses Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“I have hundreds of Word documents filled with pages of one-liners. If I begin to write a story, or if one of my thoughts leads to more than a couple paragraphs of writing, I'll go into these documents and pull out lines that I think would work with it.” IfsThinkingWritingStoriesLinesCouplePagesFilledDocumentsMy ThoughtsParagraphOne Liner Author:Chelsea Martin
“Clearly we're in historic times here. We have - one of the tributaries of the Mississippi River is a river called the Merrimack. And the crest areas there - they're going to be a number of feet, 2, 3, 4, over what they were in '93 or '82. And on the Mississippi River itself, down below St. Louis, we're still projecting a couple of feet over that historic number. So the bottom line is there's a significant amount of water that's causing evacuations and challenges throughout that whole area.” StillsWholeWaterChallengesLinesNumbersFeetAmountCoupleAreasRiversBottomSignificantHistoricBottom LineMississippiMississippi RiverEvacuation Author:Jay Nixon
“Where do you draw the line as a human being? Written record is only, what, a couple thousand years? And this scientific revolution is less than a hundred years. And computers only a few decades! We've changed so much. It's amazing, the speed of changes.” YearsHumansLinesHuman BeingsRecordsWrittenChangedRevolutionCoupleThousandComputerDrawsHundredSpeedDecadesThousand YearsScientific Revolution Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto
“After a couple of rehearsals and a couple of takes, Sydney Pollack says, "Come here. Why are you not nervous?" And I [say], "Do you think it would be better if I was nervous?" And he says, "No, it's just I can't understand it - how you would be first time on a set, you're acting, when he flubs his line you make up a new line. It's very interesting." It's not that I think I'm great; that's what I knew I wanted to do.” IfsThinkingFirstsI CanWould BeWantedLinesInterestingActingCoupleFirst TimeNervousVery InterestingRehearsalSydney Author:Geena Davis
“I think everybody has a point where they're not going to cross that line. There were a couple of things with Comedy Central that we had to fight for. They were pretty cool about everything. I don't think there was anything we really fought for that didn't happen.” ThinkingHappensFightingLinesComedyCoupleCrosses Author:Jillian Bell
“Iran has been calling for it for years, and the Arab countries support it. Everyone except the United States and Israel support it. The U.S. won't allow it because it means inspecting Israel's nuclear weapons. The U.S. has continued to block it, and in fact blocked it again just a couple of days ago; it just wasn't widely reported. Iran's nuclear program, as U.S. intelligence points out, is deterrent, and the bottom line is that the U.S. and Israel don't want Iran to have a deterrent.” WantYearsMeanHas BeensCountryStatesFactsLinesUnitedUnited StatesSupportCoupleCallingWeaponsProgramBottomIsraelNuclearBlockIranNuclear WeaponsBottom LineBlockedDeterrent Author:Noam Chomsky
“I had a real come-to-Jesus a couple of years ago when I started to see the direct line between feminism and everything else - feminism and climate change, feminism and poverty, feminism and hunger - and it was almost like I was born again and started walking down the street and was like, "Oh, my God, there are women everywhere! They're just everywhere you look. There's women all over the place!"” YearsLooksRealJesusBornLinesPovertyFeminismStreetsCoupleWalkingYears AgoDirectClimateClimate ChangeHungerBorn Again Author:Amanda Palmer
“I also think the party needs to work on a couple different fronts. There are so many fault lines within the party: conservative vs. moderate, the more fiscally minded Republicans vs. the more socially minded Republicans, the Old Guard - the sort of Newt Gingrich-Karl Rove Republican - vs. the New Guard - the Michael Steele-Sarah Palin sort of emerging sect of the party. And the party has to decide what direction it's going to go in.” ThinkingNeedsDifferentLinesPartyFrontsCoupleRepublicanFaultsConservativeModeratesEmergingSectsPalinNewts Author:Andrea Tantaros
“First you have to witness that you are stressing out: Oh, my trigger is here. The news is stressing me out or This line is so long. Let yourself feel it. You don't want to spiritually bypass these problems. Give yourself a couple of minutes to sit in the feeling. Acceptance sets you free from the stress of expectation.” WantGivingFeelsFirstsLongFeelingsProblemLinesMinutesAcceptanceCoupleNewsExpectationsStressWitnessTriggersBypass Author:Gabrielle Bernstein
“I don't know if it was written off in that single line in Thor. It was given another way of looking at it. There are a couple of lines in Thor basically saying that science and magic it gets to a point where what's the difference. And I think we're continuing that.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayGivenDifferencesLinesWrittenMagicCoupleContinuingAnother WaySingle Line Author:Kevin Feige
“I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.” SongReadingLinesCoupleExcited Author:Nina Simone
“This is sort of inflection-free acting [playing Maigret], and I really wasn't sure if I could do it - you make your mind up on whether I've succeeded or not. But yes, I found it difficult when we were shooting; it was a couple of weeks before I settled into not worrying - to finding a way of delivering those lines - so my worries of many months before I think had been justified. I found it a difficult way of being.” IfsThinkingWayMindFoundDifficultLinesActingWorryWeekMonthsCoupleFindingsShootingIf I CouldJustifiedDeliveringNot Worrying Author:Rowan Atkinson
“I think they [TV productions] were just kind of drying up. I'd done a couple of episodes, but nothing was happening. So I went to Vancouver to visit a buddy and see what was going on, and that year was crazy. Vancouver was on fire at that point. It was all these Stephen J. Cannell productions - The Commish being one of them - and in one I was a bartender, and I think I had five lines.” ThinkingYearsKindDoneLinesFireFiveCrazyTvsCoupleHappeningsProductionsEpisodesBuddyVancouverBartender Author:Eric McCormack
“[Carnival Ride] is part of a line from my favorite song on the album, "Wheel of the World." It sums up everything that's happened to me. It's nuts to think of where I was a couple of years ago.” ThinkingWorldYearsSongLinesHappenedCoupleYears AgoMy FavoriteAlbumsWheelsNutsFavorite SongCarnivalsCarnival Rides Author:Carrie Underwood
“Macroeconomic stability will be more elusive and that will affect all of our lives: from the risks many will face in childhood, to the security of employment at working age, to the challenge of accumulating for retirement. More financial instability will introduce more uncertainty all down the line, and that will be a very different world than the one we would have lived in only a couple of decades ago.” WorldDifferentAgeFacesChallengesLinesOur LivesRiskChildhoodSecurityCoupleFinancialDecadesEmploymentUncertaintyRetirementStabilityIntroducingElusiveDifferent WorldsInstabilityMacroeconomics Author:Alan M. Taylor
“Look at Senegal, about 90% of the Muslims in Senegal are Tijani or Qadiri Sufis. Among them, they have very great teachers who have written poems about al-Hallaj, and they have not been killed. In fact, it's Sufism that brought Islam through all of Senegal, right under our noses the last couple of centuries. And you can go down the same line through Indonesia and Malaysia.” LooksFactsLastsLinesTeacherWrittenCenturyCoupleIslamNosesAlsSufismSufiIndonesiaGreat TeacherMalaysia Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr