“I think the nerves aspect is a bit of a joke. How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another, most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models too, it wouldn't be the end of the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldNeedsEndsSometimesHardHappensFallBitsLinesWalksStepsWorstFrontsModelsJokesAspectNervesEnd Of The WorldUp And DownStraight Lines Author:Edie Campbell
“The people in the front lines are my customers. I need to keep them happy. And, the best way to take care of your customers is to take care of your workers.” PeopleWayNeedsCareLinesFrontsWorkersTake CareCustomersBest Way Author:Paul Orfalea
“Disneyland celebrated its 40th anniversary by burying a time capsule. They say it will be dug up in 50 years - or when the last person in line at Space Mountain gets to the front, whichever comes first.” YearsFirstsPersonsLastsLinesSpaceFrontsMountainDisneylandBuryingTime Capsules40th Anniversary Author:Jay Leno
“I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about, and that's really it. I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change, but I am far lazier than that.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWritingTryingCareWantedSocialLinesPleasureFrontsJokesComedianSocial ChangeTrenchesGreat Respect Author:Jon Stewart
“What is eternity? You're on the checkout line at a supermarket. There are seven people in front of you. They are all old. They all have two carts and coupons for every item. They are all paying by check. None of them have ID. It's the checkout girl's first day on the job. She doesn't speak any English. Take away fifteen minutes from that, and you begin to get an idea of what eternity is.” PeopleFirstsTwoIdeasJobsGirlSpeakLinesMinutesFrontsEternitySevenChecksFifteenItemsSupermarketsCartsCheckouts Author:Emo Philips
“[In comedy] you never want to leave the actors hanging out to dry. So you need to come up with funny individual stories for each character, and then you do this sort of comedy geometry, weaving them together. Once you've got a funny structure and you know why the scenes are funny, then you get super funny people to say your own lines, say their own lines, say things in their own way, and every scene is a live rewrite in front of the camera.” PeopleKnowsWayWantNeedsCharacterStoriesTogetherActorsIndividualLinesComedyFrontsSceneCamerasStructureCome UpDryHanging OutGeometryWeavingFunny PeopleSuper Funny Author:Jeff Schaffer
“I'm useless at staring at a piece of white paper. But if you put a piece of white paper with a black line on it in front of me, I'll say no that black line should be red and it should go this way or that way.” IfsWayShouldBlackLinesWhitePiecesFrontsPaperRedUselessStaringWhite Paper Author:Marc Jacobs
“The bottom line is that I wanted to come back and play in the Premier League again and wake up on Saturday morning and really fancy getting out there and playing in front of this fantastic support, scoring goals and enjoying football. (on returning to the premiership)” PlayWantedEnjoyGoalLinesMorningSupportFrontsFootballEnglandWake UpBottomFantasticLeagueFancySaturdayBottom LinePremier LeagueSaturday MorningScoring Goals Author:Michael Owen
“Bloggers and other flavors of lone wolf are publishing heart-wrenching photo-essays from the front line of the recovery effort. Newspapers and TV networks? They're writing about the temperature of the water in some part (they don't specify which) of some damaged reactor, illustrating it with video screen grabs of machinery they don't understand enough to explain.” WritingHeartEnoughWaterLinesEffortFrontsTvsScreensNewspapersVideoRecoveryPublishingFlavorEssaysMachineryTemperatureLoneBloggersLone WolfHeart WrenchingIllustrating Author:Tim Bray
“If we want people on the front lines of companies to be responsible for making good business decisions, they must have the same information that managers use to make good business decisions.” PeopleIfsWantUseLinesDecisionCompanyFrontsInformationResponsibleManagersBeing ResponsibleGood BusinessBusiness Decisions Book:The 3 Keys to Empowerment: Release the Power Within People for Astonishing Results Source: The 3 Keys to Empowerment: Release the Power Within People for Astonishing Results
“The front line with ISIS isn't just in Iraq and Syria, it's in Kennedy Airport and the Rio Grande. Border security is national security.” LinesSecurityFrontsIraqBordersSyriaNational SecurityAirportsIsisRioBorder Security Author:Ted Cruz
“All the champions - you go and ask Mike Tyson or Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Lennox Lewis and myself included, and I'm sorry for putting myself in line with all the other great names - but the champion's attitude is it doesn't matter who is in front of me, I am going to conquer this person and win the fight and knock the person out.” PersonsMatterFightingAsksWinningNamesLinesAttitudeFrontsSorryConquerChampionI'm SorryMikeTyson Author:Wladimir Klitschko
“Iraqi fighters on the front lines, You courageous officers and soldiers who have been fighting valiantly and efficiently - you have restored the glories of your great Iraq. You have proved that you are the true descendants of those great fighters throughout the ages. You have given the most remarkable example of Arab military power, of which the Arab nation is in need today and tomorrow in its struggle to maintain its existence and integrity, and to restore its usurped rights and territories.” NeedsHas BeensAgeTodayFightingGivenNationsLinesExistenceStruggleRightsMilitaryFrontsExampleTomorrowIntegrityGlorySoldierIraqFighterRemarkableCourageousTerritoryOfficersDescendantsMilitary PowerToday And Tomorrow Author:Saddam Hussein
“The pandering and ignorance-across-party-lines represented by the John McCain-Hillary Clinton united front for a temporary reduction in the gasoline tax should make Americans hold their heads in their hands and moan [...] Please. This is embarrassing. It makes me long for the good old days of debating about flag pins on the lapel.” ShouldLongHandsLinesUnitedPartyFrontsIgnorancePleaseTaxesClintonTemporaryFlagsEmbarrassingPinsReductionOld DaysMccainGasolineGood Old DaysUnited Front Author:James Fallows
“The American servicemen and women of the Guard and Reserve leave their jobs, their spouses and their children to wear the uniform that defends our country. This selfless commitment should be honored by businesses across Massachusetts as we work to ensure they are treated fairly while they balance their employment responsibilities and obligations to the armed services. No business should ever put the bottom line ahead of America's front line.” ShouldChildrenCountryJobsAmericaLinesResponsibilityFrontsBalanceMen And WomenCommitmentBottomObligationTreatedOur CountryEmploymentSelflessReservesUniformsSpouseHonoredBottom LineMassachusettsServicemenArmed Services Author:Mitt Romney
“I would drink and drink and then at 3 o'clock in the morning take anything that was put in front of me. And I'd sometimes be disappointed when conventional things were put in front of me. Like, I'd do a line of something and be disappointed to find it was just cocaine.” SometimesLinesMorningFrontsDrinkClockDisappointedConventionalCocaine Author:Moby
“The women working at abortion clinics are really on the front lines and the true heroes of feminism.” LinesFeminismFrontsHeroAbortionClinicTrue Hero Author:Betty Dodson
“My father - I once asked him what was his greatest achievement. He said his greatest achievement was that he fought in five wars in the infantry, always on the front line, and never hurt anybody.” SaidWarFatherHurtLinesFiveFrontsAchievementGreatest AchievementInfantry Author:Etgar Keret
“All front-line combat jobs in the infantry, special operations units and elsewhere are now open to women.” JobsLinesSpecialFrontsOperationsCombatElsewhereUnitsInfantrySpecial Operations Author:Renee Montagne
“What I like about organizing things that way is that each story gets nearly full reign over its own space, but all of them are hung on a single string - the loosely-reined voice mentioned above. Thus the collection jogs away from suzerainty and past federation toward, I guess, alliance. Or maybe call each story a separate house on a single street? Or it's all a line of dive bars on some wharf front? What the hell, let's call reading the collection a pub crawl, but with words.” WayStoriesPastReadingHouseVoiceLinesSpaceHellStreetsFrontsBarsCollectionsOver ItStringsHungReignAlliancesPubsFederationOrganizing Things Author:Roy Kesey
“The last point that I'd make. I had a hearing. I had all of the veterans groups in front of me. And I said to them, tell me when a veteran gets in to the V.A., understanding there are waiting lines and real problems, when a veteran gets into the system, is the quality of care good?” SaidRealProblemCareLastsWaitingUnderstandingLinesQualityGroupsFrontsHearingVeteranReal Problems Author:Bernie Sanders
“I'm not out here on the front lines trying to create clones, or consumers, or worshippers of who I am, and what I do. I'm trying to nurture the idea that you should do your own thing, which is really powerful.” ShouldTryingIdeasLinesPowerfulFrontsWho I AmConsumersNurtureWorshippersReally Powerful Author:Mike Vallely
“There's that area, right there, where you can be too hard on yourself or you need to be really hard on yourself - I'm trying to ride that line by telling myself that I can always write better, sing better, what can we do to make the show more interesting? Pretend that you're the guy who's been in the front row for the last five shows; what would make it new for you?” NeedsWritingTryingI CanHardShowsLastsGuyLinesInterestingFiveFrontsAreas Author:Cody Johnson
“While it is almost certainly true that leaders ought to eat last, the evidence on the ever-widening difference between CEO and average employee pay and the enormous severance packages leaders obtain even as front-line workers see their economic well-being eviscerated makes a mockery of the idea that leaders do anything other than take care of themselves.” WellsIdeasCareLastsDifferencesLinesPayLeaderEconomicFrontsOughtEvidenceWorkersAverageTake CareEnormousWell BeingEmployeeCeoPackagesMockery Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“How can [actors] learn their lines and be honest in front of 30 people and all the lights? It makes me cry sometimes. I can't understand how they can be joking with me 30 seconds before, and 40 seconds later they're giving me all this incredible feeling.” PeopleGivingI CanSometimesFeelingsLightActorsLinesHonestFrontsCryIncrediblesBeing HonestSeconds Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“I always thought the front line was the bookstores. And bookstores around America, around the world did astonishingly well. They held the line. They didn't chicken out. You know, they defended the book. They kept it in the front of the store.” KnowsWorldWellsBookAmericaLinesFrontsStoresAround The WorldChickensBookstores Author:Salman Rushdie
“Book ideas are like planes, lined up to approach the runway. Some never leave the gate, but others move quickly to the front of the line. It was like that with The Four Purposes. Honestly, I cannot remember the moment I had the idea for the book; perhaps because it emerged like a green shoot emerging from the soil of my subconscious. But it seemed important enough to begin the flow of words that eventually shaped themselves into this new book.” ImportantBookIdeasEnoughMomentsRememberMovingPurposeLinesFourFrontsApproachFlowGreenHonestlyPlanesSoilGatesSubconsciousEmergingNew BooksRunway Author:Dan Millman
“We all look in the mirror and see us a little blonder or a little thinner or a little younger, whatever that ideal might be and most of the people that I'm photographing are selling something, you know whether they're on the front of an album cover or a magazine or they're a corporate person ready to switch companies or a doctor selling a skincare line... so I want to help them achieve that.” PeopleKnowsWantLooksLittlesPersonsHelpingMightLinesCompanyAchieveFrontsReadyIdealsDoctorsMirrorsAlbumsSellingMagazinesCorporateAlbum CoversSelling Something Author:Carol Friedman
“I don't kid myself in thinking that I'm on the front lines. I know the people who are on the front lines. I mean there are people in some freakin' significant places making on-the-ground social front line change. I've marched. I've put feet on the ground for what I believe and what I'm against with no compromise. And there are people who are risking a whole hell of a lot more than me to make change, that's for damn sure.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBelieveMeanWholeKidsI BelieveSocialLinesHellFeetFrontsSignificantCompromiseDamnFeet On The GroundNo Compromise Author:Ben Harper
“I am really inspired when I am in an experience, at the front lines of conservation, and I see someone - a woman, a man, a child, a person - who has given up an opportunity to have a family, an opportunity for financial riches, even an opportunity for security, [to] put their whole life on the line to protect a species.” MenChildrenPersonsWholeOpportunityGivenLinesSecurityFrontsProtectSpeciesInspiredFinancialRichesWhole LifeConservationGiven Up Author:Jeff Corwin
“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
“For me, I guess, just learning that just because there's not a whole lot of female MCs on the front lines being supported by major record labels doesn't mean they don't exist. It doesn't mean they don't have the drive and the competitive nature and the will and the way.” WayMeanWholeLinesRecordsFrontsMajorsFemaleLabelsRecord Labels Author:MC Lyte
“You can get too heavy on the masculine side of things with all of the action, but then we've got a really nice balance going on when you go home and look at the wives' story lines and what's going on on the home front. I think people really respond to that balance of masculine and feminine.” PeopleThinkingLooksStoriesHomeActionSidesLinesNiceWifeFrontsBalanceHeavyFeminineMasculineReally NiceMasculine And Feminine Author:Abby Brammell