“No one has to come see my shows who doesn't like me talking about white Christians. They are free not buy a ticket. They're free to leave at any time. So I'm not imposing anything on anyone. Therefore I feel free to cross the line.” FeelsShowsChristianLinesWhiteTalkingCrossesLike MeTicketsImposing Author:George Carlin
“I'm not ambitious when it comes to my acting career. I'm not breaking down my agency's doors or sending out headshots. Even when I'm offered work, I always want small parts. When it comes to things that other people have written, I just don't know what I'm doing. I'm terrible at memorizing a script and reading lines. I get confused and I don't understand and it just looks fake to me. It's more difficult for me to be creative that way.” PeopleKnowsWayWantLooksReadingDifficultLinesActingCareersCreativeWrittenDoorsTerribleScriptsFakeAgencyConfusedAmbitiousBe CreativeBreaking DownSmall PartsMemorizingHeadshots Author:Amy Sedaris
“I need a costume to be convinced that I'm somebody else. Otherwise, it's just me. It's just Amy saying lines. I haven't really become somebody else. And what's the fun in that?” NeedsFunLinesHavensConvincedCostumesAmy Author:Amy Sedaris
“Dog's owners don't call me. It's their neighbors or family members. We call them the whistleblowers, but it's more like the pack. It's making sure that one pack member gets in line. Before it was the owners, now it's the community.” CommunityLinesDogMembersNeighborOwnersCall MePacksFamily MembersWhistleblowers Author:Cesar Millan
“I relax while I work. It's really weird but my job doesn't feel like work at all. That's why I try to do as much as possible. When I'm on the set, learning lines and playing around, I'm relaxed. It's so amazing.” FeelsTryingJobsLinesRelaxWorking ItRelaxedReally WeirdPlaying Around Author:Terry Crews
“I can't do the whole run but I am able to start the race and I will be there at the end when winners cross the line.” I CanEndsWholeRunningAbleLinesRaceCrossesWinner Author:Fabrice Muamba
“I might have tried bungee jumping, until I saw that video of that guy whose cord came untied. He didn't know it 'till he hit the ground. Oh, he flew off that tower, hollering at his buddies. "Whoo, check me out, dudes! Oh, that ground is coming up..." WHAM! And what do you say, if you're the operator of that ride, to the next guy in line? "All right dude, you're up."” IfsKnowsHumorMightFunnyGuyNextLinesSawsChecksVideoTowersJumpingBuddyFlewThat GuyCordsOperatorsBungee JumpingBungee Author:Bill Engvall
“Have you ever noticed that your ugliest friend is the most afraid of getting ruffied? It's like relax. YOU can take the coaster off your drink. There are at least three of us in line ahead of you.” HumorFunnyThreeLinesDrinkRelaxCoasters Author:Natasha Leggero
“The hard part is that this is a very fine line. There's right on one side of it, and crazy on the other.” HardSidesLinesCrazyFineFine Lines Author:Sam Altman
“By being an elite athlete a lot of people think that you can go away or go places and get away with things. I'm more of the laid-back person. I don't have to go and skip the line. I don't have a problem waiting.” PeopleThinkingPersonsProblemWaitingLinesAthleteGet AwayGoing AwayElitesSkipLaid BackElite Athletes Author:Andre Johnson
“I think for me in terms of this kind of dichotomy you have to hold the sense of negative capability in your mind - which is Keats line about being able to hold two different ideas 'without any irritable reach after fact or reason.'” ThinkingMindKindTwoIdeasDifferentReasonFactsAbleTermLinesNegativeCapabilityDichotomyDifferent Ideas Author:Anne Waldman
“Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem.” LongLinesEssentialsPagesTitlesLengthVerses Author:Kiki Dimoula
“It's not an option that you have to buy something in my line. You can hang out, take pictures, shoot video, shout out loud all crazy, whatever you want really, because it's not about money for me. I'm happy to do what I do!” WantLinesCrazyVideoLoudHanging OutShout Out Author:Jason David Frank
“When you get above the line, you're above the line. So my thing is I just want to make music where I am always above that line.” WantLines Author:Adrian Younge
“I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past. I think we have to seek to create coalitional strategies that go beyond racial lines. We need to bring black communities, Chicano communities, Puerto Rican communities, Asian American communities together.” ThinkingNeedsMayTogetherPastBlackCommunityLinesIssuesFocusStrategyAsianAsian AmericanBlack Community Author:Angela Davis
“People have thought that some of my writing and lines are done by a machine. I'm able to move in a way that's part gestural dance performance, and it's fun for me, so I incorporate that into the painting.” PeopleWayWritingDoneAbleMovingFunLinesPaintingMachinesPerformancesDance Performance Author:Jose Parla
“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'm not against ambition and reach, but if you can say it in four lines, why waste your time saying it in more? Challenge the world by all means, but it's bad for your poetry to take steroids.” IfsWorldMeanChallengesLinesFourWasteAmbitionSteroid Author:Michael Longley
“When you're in doubt about the future and you're in doubt about how solid this thing is that you're laying your life and your soul on the line for, you will probably retract into yourself a little bit and think, No, there's only so much I can give to something that everyone doesn't believe in. There's been chipping away, people have been chipping away at it, so it's just you in the spotlight in front of all these people.” PeopleThinkingGivingBelieveLittlesHas BeensI CanSoulBitsLinesDoubtFrontsLittle BitYour SoulSpotlightChipping Away Author:Richard Ashcroft
“My dad always said to me that with fame comes great responsibility, which has always stuck with me, even though I think he stole that line from Spiderman.” ThinkingSaidLinesResponsibilityDadFameMy DadStuckGreat Responsibility Author:Missy Higgins
“My dad, a mathematician, raised me to believe that mathematics is beautiful, so math is a part of my imaginative terrain. In my late 20s I wrote several 11-line poems because I wanted to create poems that couldn't be uniformly divided into couplets, tercets, or quatrains, 11 being a prime number.” BelieveWantedBeautifulLinesNumbersDadLateMathematicsRaisedMy DadMathPrimeDividedMathematicianImaginativeTerrainPrime NumbersCouplets Author:James Arthur
“In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful, white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can't seem to get there no how. I can't seem to get over that line.” MindI CanSeemsBeautifulLinesWhiteFieldsFlowerArmsGreenLovelyGet OverEmmysGreen Fields Author:Viola Davis
“I've been in this business 25 years. I've been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway... I've seen the unemployment line a lot.” YearsLinesUnemploymentBroadway Author:Viola Davis
“The stories I respect most aren't those with the rich, dense prose, but those which achieve a rich, deep effect with simple little nothing-sentences, lines I won't possibly remember, because they simply functioned, didn't draw attention to themselves, were properly humble.” LittlesStoriesRememberLinesSimpleAttentionRichAchieveEffectsDrawsHumbleSentencesProseDense Author:Stephen Graham Jones
“As more consumers demand less sugar, the food and beverage manufacturers will eventually come into line with what the consumers want.” WantLinesDemandConsumersSugarBeverages Author:James May
“I always loved rapping ever since Snoop said "1-2-3-4," I was repeating lines, but I didn't start writing my own lyrics until I was twelve.” WritingSaidLinesMy OwnRapTwelve Author:Fashawn
“Every individual who participated in the redistricting process knew that incumbency protection was a critical factor in producing the bizarre lines. ... Many of the oddest twists and turns of the Texas districts would never have been created if the Legislature had not been so intent on protecting party and incumbents.” IfsHas BeensPoliticalTurnsPoliticsIndividualProcessLinesPartyCriticalProtectionFactorsTexasBizarreTwistsLegislatureIncumbentsTwists And TurnsRedistrictingIncumbency Author:John Paul Stevens
“What gets me is, I waited in line for an hour to do this. I could have experienced essentially the same level of enjoyment merely by sticking my finger down my throat.” HumorFunnyHoursLinesLevelsFingersEnjoymentThroat Book:Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need Source: Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need
“I did some writing for that movie. The remake of Planet of the Apes. I didn't write the script. But I wrote some lines that they ended up... not using. ... I wrote one line. I thought it would've been perfect. I don't know if anyone saw the movie. It's the scene where the ape general comes in. And they're trying to decide if they should attack right there, or wait until a little later. And I wrote: "Man these bananas are good!" But they didn't use it. I did all of that research.” IfsKnowsMenShouldWritingTryingLittlesUseFunnyWaitingLinesPerfectSawsComedyPlanetsSceneResearchScriptsApesBananasRemakesOne Line Author:Brian Regan
“I saw that we needed to grow but our top line wasn't growing, so we had to find other ways to grow the business. We had to reshape our business and acquire share in a non conventional way. But most tech leaders don't come out of a business background. They really have a parochial point of view. All they know are the go-go years of Silicon Valley. That's the environment in which they were raised.” KnowsWayInspirationalYearsGrowsLinesViewsLeaderEnvironmentSawsGrowingShareNeededRaisedPoint Of ViewBackgroundsAcquireValleysConventionalSiliconSilicon ValleyConventional Ways Author:Larry Ellison
“Today, National Geographic has a membership side with a magazine and some television side, and they generate about a billion dollars in revenue, and they're profitable. And so at the end of the year they have some bottom line profit which they can then reinvest, because they're running it as a not-for-profit in charitable endeavors.” YearsEndsRunningTodaySidesLinesBusinessTelevisionDollarsBottomProfitBillionsMagazinesEndeavorRevenueBottom LineProfitableCharitableMembershipNational Geographic Author:Steve Case
“As to the meaning of "corporate social responsibility," Friedman and I would agree: If a certain action improves the corporation's bottom line, there's no point in labeling it "socially responsible." It's just good business.” IfsActionCertainSocialLinesBusinessResponsibilityResponsibleAgreeBottomCorporateCorporationsSocial ResponsibilityBottom LineNo PointGood BusinessLabelingCorporate Social Responsibility Author:Robert Reich
“We believe that a company's obligations extend far beyond its bottom line and its shareholders - to a wider constituency that includes employees, customers, suppliers, and the community.” BelieveCommunityLinesBusinessCompanyBottomCustomersObligationEmployeeBottom LineShareholdersSuppliers Author:John A. Byrne
“And no matter how good you are you have to work at it. It's non-stop every day, every day. The best the offensive line feels is when the season starts.” FeelsMatterLinesSeasonsOffensiveNon StopOffensive Line Author:Russ Grimm
“Urban artist have to face the stigma not only from white Australia but black Australia too; that's horrific when people say that their art isn't "Aboriginal" if it doesn't have dots or lines or moieties in it.” PeopleIfsArtFacesArtistBlackLinesWhiteArt IsAustraliaUrbanStigmaDotsHorrificAboriginal Author:Warwick Thornton
“Since today's companies are totally dependent on a continuing human membership that produces a superior intellectual output in comparison to the competition, then there is inevitably a fight over the right to the bottom line.” HumansTodayFightingLinesCompanyProduceIntellectualCompetitionBottomSuperiorsDependentComparisonContinuingBottom LineMembershipOutput Author:Arie de Geus
“[In management] you're getting an opportunity to meet and speak with the GMs, assistant GMs, owners, governors - all the way up the line. It's a great opportunity to understand the league a little better and the challenges it faces.” WayLittlesFacesOpportunitySpeakChallengesLinesManagementLeagueOwnersGovernorsAssistantsGreat Opportunity Author:Chris Pronger
“At times it seems as if you're a glorified babysitter with these guys, but they're all really good people. You just want to keep everybody happy. One of the biggest things is to keep the lines of communication open and just to keep everything running as smoothly as possible.” PeopleIfsWantSeemsRunningGuyLinesCommunicationGood PeopleBabysitterLines Of Communication Author:Gerad Adams
“If you go to the line knowing you have given it absolutely 100% in every training session you have done, you know that there's nothing else you could have done and that helps you to deal with the pressure.” IfsKnowsDoneHelpingGivenLinesDealsKnowingTrainingPressureSession Author:Chris Hoy
“It's always important to draw a line somewhere in a respectful way where you're still approachable, you're still there for the people and meeting them halfway, but you're not neglecting your own duties and your own time to rejuvenate to be able to do it again.” PeopleWayStillsImportantAbleLinesDutyDrawsMeetingsNeglectHalfwayRespectful Author:Chuck Ragan
“After all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice big fat line of black smoke heading toward something that will blow up is very satisfying.” YearsBigsBlackLinesNiceBlowFatsSmokeSatisfyingButtonsHeadings Author:Adam Savage
“Julian Fellowes doesn't come to the set, except maybe once every six weeks, for whatever reason. He's not a producer, in that sense. But if you write him a one-line question, he'll write you a three-page answer.” IfsWritingReasonThreeLinesAnswersWeekSixPagesProducersOne Line Author:Hugh Bonneville
“Funny bones, to me, are more important than funny lines. If a comedian is just not likable and doing the lines, you could read them yourself. Whereas if someone [you like] shambles out, and they tell you what a bad day they've had, they don't have to say anything. I love them. I want to hug them because they've been through something. And it comes back to empathy, always empathy.” IfsWantImportantLinesEmpathyBonesComedianHugSay AnythingBad DaySomeone You LikeShamblesFunny Bones Author:Ricky Gervais
“If we lose half the species, which could happen by the end of the century if we don't do anything, that's going to create a big difference down the line in the stability and even the economic potential in the living world. Irreversibly.” IfsWorldEndsBigsHappensLosesDifferencesLinesHalfEconomicCenturySpeciesStability Author:E. O. Wilson
“They tell you to memorize your lines, follow your light, and hit your marks. Those are the three things that you shouldn't do. You should not learn your lines, you should not hit your mark, and you should never follow your light. Find your light - that's my opinion. Everyone else will tell me I'm wrong, but that's my opinion.” ShouldLightThreeLinesOpinionMarkThree Things Author:Joaquin Phoenix
“There are times we have to put our body on the line for what we believe, for the injustices we see even within our own families.” BelieveBodyLinesInjustice Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams
“The question I'm constantly asking myself is: what are we afraid of? I think it's important for us to follow that line of fear, because that is ultimately our line of growth.” ThinkingImportantGrowthLinesAsking Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“I think that what I was talking about was that as a woman growing up in a Mormon tradition in Salt Lake City, Utah, we were taught - and we are still led to believe - that the most important value is obedience. But that obedience in the name of religion or patriotism ultimately takes our souls. So I think it's this larger issue of what is acceptable and what is not; where do we maintain obedience and law and where do we engage in civil disobedience - where we can cross the line physically and metaphorically and say, "No, this is no longer appropriate behavior."” ThinkingBelieveStillsImportantSoulLawValuesNamesLinesCitiesTalkingGrowing UpIssuesGrowingTaughtBehaviorTraditionCrossesObedienceAppropriateLakesAcceptableSaltDisobedienceCivil DisobedienceUtahSalt Lake CityImportant ValuesAppropriate Behavior Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“The line between inner and outer landscapes is breaking down. Earthquakes can result from seismic upheavals within the human mind. The whole random universe of the industrial age is breaking down into cryptic fragments.” MindHumansWholeAgeUniverseLinesResultsLandscapeHuman MindApocalypseBreaking DownFragmentsEarthquakesUpheavalCryptic Author:William S. Burroughs
“Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence.” InspirationalSelfLinesBusinessEffectsFineAmbitionSelf ConfidenceArroganceKillersSleevesFine Lines Author:Jack Welch