Best lines & ifs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Mind Believe States Actors Lines Ability Fine Type Ill Insane Performing Fine Lines Mentally Ill

Author:Samantha Morton

“I know when a story is finished when there is not a single thing more I can think to do to it. And since I know at the start what the last line will be, I know when I've reached that point as logically as I can that it's finished. As for the rewriting-it's not foolproof, of course, but if you're honest about having thought of every possibility and you still come back to what you have, what more can you do?”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Stills I Can Stories Lasts Courses Lines Honest Possibility Finished Rewriting Foolproof

Author:Amy Hempel

“If any of you have ever lived down south of the Mason-Dixon line, you know that late September still means summer heat.”

Ifs Knows Mean Stills Lines Late Summer South Heat September Masons

Author:Scott Porter

“In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules.”

Ifs Lines Moral Integrity Draws Get Away Ethical Survivor Fees

Author:Jeff Probst

“The bottom line is, if somebody doesn't go through proper security screening, they're not going to go on the flight.”

Ifs Lines Security Goes On Bottom Flight Bottom Line Screening

Author:John S. Pistole

“If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone - perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers' bottom lines.”

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Author:Christina Romer

“I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.”

Ifs Knows Kind I Can Lines Acting Knowing Easier Reactions Reacting

Author:Stephen Root

“When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that.”

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Author:Trevor Rabin

“I'm mentally getting myself ready to talk about it all year long because I know it's going to come. My main focus is not to really concentrate on that... So many things have to line up, to be healthy and consistent for so many games, to get to that point. I know as we get closer we're going to talk about it more. But believe me, when it's done, if it gets done, it will be a huge achievement and I'm definitely going to soak it in. But at this time, it's not at the top of my mind.”

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Author:Anthony Calvillo

“If you line everything up, just right, you walk through a doorway where the world as you know it collapses.”

Ifs Knows World Lines Walks Awareness Buddhism Collapse Doorways

Author:Frederick Lenz

“They say Casanova made love to over 10,000 women. Do you think it changed him? It probably aged him a little bit. But I doubt that it changed him. If it had changed him, he would have stopped somewhere along the line and done something a little different.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.”

Ifs Lines Areas Sympathetic Creepy

Author:Jason Segel

“Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.”

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Author:Aaron Tveit

“The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day is completely jam-packed, or you're away from your computer - carry a small paper notebook and write a sentence of description while you're waiting on line at a coffee shop. I think of this as baiting a hook. Even if you have a few days in a row where nothing comes except those ten words, I find that as long as you have to think about the novel enough to write ten words, the chances are that more will come.”

“I'm pretty focused on my career, and if it comes down to hanging out with somebody or learning my lines, it's gonna be learning my lines.”

Ifs Lines Careers Focused Hanging Out

Author:Cory Monteith

“If I get two lines in the script, I somehow turn it into 20. I've got a bit of a bad habit of doing that, of just embellishing my little moment.”

Ifs Littles Two Moments Turns Bits Lines Habit Scripts Bad Habits Little Moments

Author:Rebel Wilson

“Young people today seem to be coming around to the idea it really doesn’t matter which politician or political party you vote for; and they’re catching on that it doesn’t even matter if you don’t vote because they have realized modern elections are just a way for the 1% to appease the 99% – a way to keep the masses in line by making them believe they’ve had their say, thereby perpetuating the lie that democracy continues.”

People Ifs Way Believe Ideas Matter Seems Today Young Political Lying Lines Party Democracy Modern Politician Mass Vote Election Political Parties Catching Appease Perpetuating Catching On

Author:James Morcan

“It’s an interesting sign of the times that models are being booked for jobs and covers because of their following on a social media platform, I walked in the Balmain show for Olivier Rousteing. If you rounded up all the numbers of the majority of his line-up, there would be upwards of 10, 15 million followers.”

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Author:Karlie Kloss

“The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only take apart what they allow you to take apart, you're Disney. Cartooning is a low-class, for-the-public art, just like graffiti art and rap music. Vulgar but believable, that's the line I kept walking.”

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Author:Ralph Bakshi

“All that serves labor serves the Nation. All ^ that harms labor is treason to America. No line can be drawn between these two. If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool. There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.”

Ifs Men Two America Hate Nations Lines Fool Labor Harm Liars Treason Fleece

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“The Dark Knight series is all from Batman's point of view. But if you look at Dark Knight 2, you'll see a Superman who's much calmer than the one in the first Dark Knight. Batman and Superman are dead opposites. I love Superman. Do I love Batman more? They're not people. They're only lines on paper.”

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Author:Frank Miller

“You cannot simply read the Quran,not if you take it seriously.You either have surrendered to it already or you fight it. It attacks tenaciously,directly,personally; it debates,criticizes,shames and challenges. From the outset it draws the line of battle, and I was on other side.”

Ifs Fighting Sides Challenges Lines Battle Draws Shame Debate Criticize Quran

Author:Jeffrey Lang

“I would like you to show me, if you can, where the line can be drawn between an organism and it's environment. The environment is in you. It's passing through you. You're breathing it in and out. You and every other creature.”

Ifs Shows Lines Environment Like You Creatures Passing Passings Breathing Organisms Show Me Passing Through

Author:Wendell Berry

“Spirit is the key to everything we desire. It is our weather-proofing, our Teflon, our line of credit that assures if we just keep putting one foot in front of the other, one day; there will be a miraculous payoff.”

Ifs Spirit Desire Lines Feet Fronts Keys One Day Credit Weather Miraculous Payoff Teflon

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught... Better go down upon your marrow-bones / And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones... For to articulate sweet sounds together / Is to work harder than all these, and yet / Be thought an idler by the noisy set.”

Ifs Doe Has Beens Moments Seems Together Sound Hours Lines Break Sweet Hard Work Stones Harder Bones Kitchen Work Harder Noisy Pavement Marrow Idlers

Book:Later Poems

Source: Later Poems

“Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives.”

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Book:Angel Days

Source: Angel Days

“For if we merely take what obviously appears the line of least resistance, its obviousness will appeal to the opponent also; and this line may no longer be that of least resistance. In studying the physical aspect, we must never lose sight of the psychological, and only when both are combined is the strategy truly an indirect approach, calculated to dislocate the opponent's balance.”

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Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.”

Ifs Way Should War Strong Force Lines Principles Military Policy Position Resistance Opponents Climbs Retreat Ladders

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“If you have a headache every Monday morning when it is time for you to go to work, perhaps you're driving the wrong car, perhaps you're taking the wrong route, or you may be in the wrong line of work. Obviously, only you can figure out the message.”

Ifs May Lines Healing Morning Car Figures Messages Driving Routes Monday Headache Monday Morning

Author:Christiane Northrup

“If you don't make the commitment today to start becoming the person you need to be to create the extraordinary life you really want, what makes you think that tomorrow - or next week, or next month, or next year - is going to be any different? They won't. And that's why you must draw your line in the sand TODAY.”

“The fact is that a "minor exorcism" takes place in every Baptism and Confirmation ceremony when we renounce Satan and all his works and empty promises. This prayer service will be along those lines. I'm not saying that anyone involved in the redefinition of marriage is possessed by the devil, which, if that were the case, would require the remedy of a "Major Exorcism," but all of us are certainly subject to the devil's evil influences and in need of protection and deliverance from evil.”

“If the 'self-life' is supreme, Satan does not have to be invited in. The lines are already set for the 'electric' current to flow. Satan is master of ceremonies, though he be apparently non-existent.”

Ifs Doe Self Life Is Lines Masters Flow Currents Supreme Temptation Satan Electric Invited Ceremony Electric Current Master Ceremony

Author:F. Huegel

“Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.”

Ifs Firsts Two Character Waiting Lines Fine Glances

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product but if your bottom line goes bust then that's it.”

Ifs May Lines Economy Products Bottom Manage Bottom Line Market Economy

Author:Mukesh Ambani

“I've always liked wrinkles. When I was a young girl, I used to make lines on my face with my nails because I loved Jeanne Moreau. I always wanted to be older; I always added years to my life. For the longest time, if people thought I was older I would take it as a compliment.”

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Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the mouth utters its words. If what the mouth utters is unclear or foolish or mendacious, it must be that the meditations are the same. But the line runs both ways. The words of the mouth will become the meditations of the heart, and the habit of loose talk loosens the fastenings of our understanding.”

Ifs Way Heart Running Understanding Lines Clear Meditation Habit Mouths Foolish Unclear

Author:Richard Mitchell

“If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action. Instead of becoming sidetracked by distractions and diversions, your time is focused on a straight line from start to finish.”

Ifs Action Courses Goal Lines Clear Focus Plans Achieve Becoming Focused Planning Fixed Distraction Straight Lines Diversion Clear Goals

Author:Brian Tracy

“I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more.”

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Book:David Hockney

Source: David Hockney

“It doesn't matter what the income level of your family is, or if English is the first or second language. It makes no difference. The bottom line is that every child can be an academic champion, an academic champion and a superstar in academics.”

Ifs Firsts Children Matter Language Differences Lines Levels Bottom Income Our Family Champion Academic Bottom Line Superstar

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“If I actually ran the world, I'd do it from the kitchen. It's not anything deliberate or a statement or anything, that's just how I understand things. It's arranged along informal lines.”

Ifs World Lines Statements Ran Kitchen Deliberate

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“Compare constantly, lines and angles... Hold looking-glass before your model and your drawing. Take a second's glance only, and see if the impression be the same. If it be not, ask, 'What is the difference?”

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Book:William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing

Source: William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing

“It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony and rhythm, these basic forms of beauty, supplemented if necessary by other direct lines or curves, can become a work of art, as strong as it is true.”

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Author:Piet Mondrian

“There are subtle things you can do without crossing the line. If I see I've got up my opponent's nose, I will be over the moon. Job done.”

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Author:Ian Poulter

“If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.”

Ifs Politics Lines Walks Rooms Politician

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Dreams last so long Even after you're gone I know you love me And soon you will see You were meant for me And I was meant for you Go about my business, I'm doing fine Besides, what would I say if I had you on the line Same old story, not much to say Hearts are broken every day I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead I try to tell myself it'll be all right I just shouldn't think anymore tonight”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Trying Heart Long Stories Dream Lasts Song Lines Half Gone Alive Broken Fine Tonight I Know You Love Me

Author:Jewel

“There are stereotypes - it's like an invisible line, but somehow you have to find the energy to be strong, to be super-confident, no matter if you are in front of the president of the U.S. or anyone else.”

Ifs Matter Energy Strong President Lines Fronts Invisible Stereotype

Author:Thalia

“Leaders need to remember that the point of leading is not to cross the finish line first. It's to take people across the finish line with you. For that reason, leaders must deliberately slow their pace, stay connected to their people, enlist others to help fulfill the vision, and keep people going. You can't do that if you're running too far ahead of your people.”

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Author:John C. Maxwell

“One of the reasons I got into fighting was because I'd never really been in a fight. It's like in Fight Club, the famous line, 'How much can you really know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?'... It's the the clearest mirror you'll ever stand in front of.”

Ifs Knows Reason Fighting Lines Fronts Mirrors Clubs Mma About Yourself

Author:Jon Fitch

“The more lines I have, in general, the worse a movie is. It's very rare that I get say great things in fantastic movies. So if you see me as like, number one on a call sheet? In general, that movie is pretty bad.”

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Author:Matthew Lillard

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