“I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I don't like people who just follow one line and that's it - that's why I could never be in a sitcom, I don't think. They're not intriguing enough for me.” PeopleThinkingEnoughCharacterLeftLinesFieldsComplexesUnexpectedIntriguingSitcomOne LineLeft Field Author:Pete Postlethwaite
“I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here.” HouseLeftLinesFourMagicInternetAreasBay AreaFood Banks Author:Andy Hertzfeld
“Generally, the arguments for same-sex marriage go along these lines: 'I have a civil right.' What the homosexual movement wants to do is to hitch their agenda to the civil rights movement, but I point out that this is illegitimate for a number of reasons. Number one, no black person has ever left his black-ness or changed his black-ness, but plenty of people have come out of the homosexual movement. What we need to do is distinguish between race and behavior.” PeopleWantNeedsPersonsReasonLeftSexBlackLinesNumbersRaceRightsMovementChangedBehaviorArgumentCivil RightsPlentyAgendasHomosexualCivil Rights MovementBlack Person Author:Erwin W. Lutzer
“Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one of the torments of Hades I could imagine a doomed mortal made to untangle wet fish lines forever. Everybody lost patience at the stupidity of the fish in not coming forward promptly to be murdered.” MadeEnoughSeemsFormLyingLostLeftLinesForeverImagineBasesFundamentalsFishesConservativeStupidityMortalsFishingWetDoomedTormentLeft OutHades Author:Thomas A. Edison
“One day he [Wagner] was batting against a young pitcher who had just come into the league. The catcher was a kid, too . The pitcher threw Honus a curve ball, and he swung at it and missed and fell down. Looked helpless as a robin. I was kind of surprised, but the guy sitting next to me poked me in the ribs and said, 'Watch this next one.' Those kids figured they had the old man's weakness, you see, and served him up the same dish - as he knew they would. Well, Honus hit a line drive so hard the fence in left field went back and forth for five minutes.” MenWellsKindSaidHardKidsYoungGuyNextLeftLinesWatchesFiveMinutesFieldsOne DayWeaknessSittingBallsLeagueOld ManDishesHelplessFenceCurvesFive MinutesBack And ForthPitcherRobinsRibsBattingCatchersWagnerLeft Field Author:Burleigh Grimes
“I dont see lines of force as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.” LeftForceLinesPathMaterialsDestructiveObservance Author:Brian Ferneyhough
“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.” LittlesStillsRealityLeftSidesLinesToo MuchOptimismEdgesCriticalSpeedTinyPsychologicalRangeFlawsMinorsImpatienceExquisiteBicycleBrillianceSentimentalityAircraftDealingsRunwayProximityHigh SpeedStrandedTractors Author:Alain de Botton
“Pat Fox out to the forty(yard line) and grabs the sliothar(ball), I bought a dog from his father last week. Fox turns and sprints for goal, the dog ran a great race last Tuesday in Limerick. Fox to the 21 fires a shot, it goes to the left and wide......and the dog lost as well.” WellsLastsTurnsFatherLostLeftGoalLinesRaceFireWeekDogShotsBallsWideRanFortyYardsFoxesTuesdaySprintHurlingLimerickGreat Race Author:Micheal O Muircheartaigh
“A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end of a suspended chain; you can sway him slightly to the right or the left, but remove your hand and he falls into line with the other links.” MenEndsHandsFallLeftLinesMillionsGravesChainsReformRemoveLinksAncestorApesSuspended Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“I joined the Labour Party not because it was Left Wing, but because it was definitely internationalists and would seem to be the group in the Labour Party which would serve my purpose best for propaganda along internationalist lines.” SeemsPurposeLeftLinesPartyGroupsWingsPropagandaLabourLeft WingLabour Party Author:Norman Angell
“If you dropped me off a space platform onto the ground where a line was drawn, I would fall to the left side of it. I believe the difference between right and left is that the right, for the most part, the bulk of their philosophy is interested in property, and the rights of people to own property and gain and acquire and keep property. And I think on the left - though they blend and mix - on the left primarily you will find people who are more concerned about humans, and the human condition, and what can be done.” PeopleIfsThinkingBelieveHumansDonePhilosophyFallLeftI BelieveSidesDifferencesLinesSpaceRightsConditionsGainsConcernedPropertyAcquireHuman ConditionPlatforms Author:George Carlin
“The earth was created by the assistance of the sun, and it should be left as it was. The country was made without lines of demarcation, and it is no man's business to divide it.” MenShouldMadeCountryEarthLeftLinesSunDividesNative AmericanAssistanceAmerican IndianNative AmericaNative American IndianGreat Native AmericanNative American EarthIndian WisdomNative American Dream Author:Chief Joseph
“People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see if there's an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there's a tan line and the skin is pressed down where's he's worked a ring off his finger.” PeopleIfsLooksHandsLeftLinesMissingSkinsFingersRingsBusinessmanTemptingLeft HandWedding Ring Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“I wrote a piece from North Korea called Visit to a Small Planet which is a line I stole from a play of Gore Vidal's, because it did seem to me as if I had left this planet completely to go on this visit to the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, and it was as if coming back from another spatial body altogether.” IfsPlayBodySeemsLeftLinesPiecesPlanetsGoes OnComing BackKoreaNorth KoreaGoreKoreanSpatialPeninsulas Author:Christopher Hitchens
“Typically, when you're with your friends, premises are coming up left and right. But when you're on stage, you must create the premise. So you have to create the premise, paint the picture and then deliver the punch line.” LeftLinesStagePaintPremisesLeft And Right Author:Jon Stewart
“Kiss is the number-one American band in gold-record sales. In the world, only the Beatles and the Stones are ahead of us. Every other band should be wiping my ass. The line forms over there to the left.” ShouldFormLeftLinesBandAss Author:Gene Simmons
“My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis, against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The first pitch I threw was to third baseman Bob Bailey. It was a fastball, low and away. He ripped it for a home run down the left field line. I said, 'Damn, that was a pretty good pitch.” FirstsSaidHomeRunningLeftLinesFieldsMajorsLowsThirdsDamnLeagueBobAvenuesPirateStadiumsRippedHome RunDebutMajor LeaguePittsburghFastballsLeft Field Author:Steve Carlton
“Here's how I became myself: mess, failure, mistakes, disappointments, and extensive reading; limbo, indecision, setbacks, addiction, public embarrassment, and endless conversations with my best women friends; the loss of people without whom I could not live, the loss of pets that left me reeling, dizzying betrayals but much greater loyalty, and overall, choosing as my motto William Blake's line that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love.” PeopleReadingLeftLinesLossMistakeGreaterConversationEndureAddictionDisappointmentBetrayalLoyaltyEndlessMessPetMottoEmbarrassmentSetbackBeamIndecisionBlakeMy MottoPet LossLimboExtensive Reading Author:Anne Lamott