Best One Line Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“To illustrate to the Indians the advantages the white race had in the telephone I divided a body of warriors from Sitting Bull's camp into two parties and had them talk to each other over the telephone line.”

Two Body Lines White Party Race Sitting Advantage Warrior Divided Camps Telephones Bulls One Line White Race

Author:Nelson A. Miles

“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.”

People Thinking Enough Character Left Lines Fields Complexes Unexpected Intriguing Sitcom One Line Left Field

Author:Pete Postlethwaite

“You exist someplace else, and when you can contact yourself in that other place, when you can open up a kind of inter-dimensional phone line between yourself and our various selves, when you have become aware of that, that's when magic begins.”

World Kind Self Lines Magic Buddhism Phones Various Contact Other Worlds One Line

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I did about 10-12 national commercials and then got one line parts in things like 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and the show 'The Unit.' Got a little part in the movie 'Redbelt' by David Mamet and kept slowly grinding up and then started getting bigger parts in independents and getting noticed by Liz Meriwether.”

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Author:Jake M. Johnson

“The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an intereffect between the lines in a painting: one line attracts the other and at the point of maximum attraction the lines curve in toward the attracting point and form is altered.”

People Form Lines Secret Painting Attraction Interaction Curves Maximum Altered One Line Between The Lines

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you.”

Sometimes Heaven Lines Written One Line

Author:David Whyte

“I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.”

Looks Stills I Can Age Lines Improvement Old Age Tone Colour Composition One Line

Author:E. J. Hughes

“An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons.”

War Reason Care Lines Majors Army Operations Abandoned One Line

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“I think that you can say something in one line with a look that you might need three lines on a page for normally.”

Thinking Needs Looks Might Three Lines Pages One Line

Author:Guy Pearce

“Even one word, or certainly one sentence, should be able to describe the basic characteristic that the scene has, or the character has, or the story has. And then you begin to detail that one spine, and you have offshoots from that spine, and it becomes more and more complex, but all of it stems from that one-word, one-line theme, which can give the character, the scene, or the play its uniqueness.”

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Author:William Shatner

“Nowadays, one of the churches of Tlön maintains platonically that such and such a pain, such and such a greenish-yellow colour, such and such a temperature, such and such a sound, etc., make up the only reality there is. All men, in the climactic instant of coitus, are the same man. All men who repeat one line of Shakespeare are William Shakespeare.”

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Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“Enough of satire; in less harden'd times Great was her force, and mighty were her rhymes. I've read of men, beyond man's daring brave, Who yet have trembled at the strokes she gave; Whose souls have felt more terrible alarms From her one line, than from a world in arms.”

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Book:The Poems of Charles Churchill

Source: The Poems of Charles Churchill

“Real power has fullness and variety. It is not narrow like lightning, but broad like light. The man who truly and worthily excels in any one line of endeavor, might also under a change of circumstances, have excelled in some other line. Power is a thing of solidity and wholeness.”

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Author:Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

“People think, 'Oh, well how can 'The Hobbit,' which is one book, become three films?' But you can take one line from an appendice and it turns into a whole sequence.”

People Thinking Wells Book Whole Film Turns Three Lines Sequence One Line Oh Well

Author:Andy Serkis

“For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.”

Trying Ends Lines Acting Risk Becoming Series Impression Presentation Becoming More One Line

Author:Ken Stott

“It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot.”

Ifs Film Lines Comedy Lists Just One Buckets One Line Bucket List

Author:Miranda Hart

“Jesus won't cut you off before you're through With him you won't never get a crossed line, And when your bill comes it'll all be properly itemised He's the telephone repairman on the switchboard of my life. The phone line to the saviour's always free of interference He's in at any hour, day or night And when you call J-E-S-U-S you always call toll-free He's the telephone repairman on the switchboard of my life.”

Night Jesus Hours Lines Cutting Bills Phones Telephones Saviour Interference Tolls One Line Good Omens

Author:Terry Pratchett

“If you're sounding right, you're probably walking right, and vice versa. If you get the footwork right - if you get even one line right in a rehearsal, the director will say, do you know when you said that, it was exactly the character. You were - really landed on it.”

Ifs Knows Said Character Lines Walking Directors Vices Do You Know Rehearsal Vice Versa One Line Footwork

Author:Ian Mckellen

“Even in motocross, youre struggling to see people pass each other anymore. There seems to be one line in motocross.”

People Seems Lines Struggle One Line Motocross

Author:Casey Stoner

“One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.”

Want Years Art Lines Wall Years Ago Twenties Cruelty Oppression Torture Detachment Glorify One Line

Book:Your Native Land, Your Life

Source: Your Native Land, Your Life

“That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.”

Said Reason Religion Sides Lines Strange Genius Pages Revelations Premature One Line Quintessence

Author:Horace Walpole

“The two black lines on the armband means that they're the deceased's family. One line means they are either friends or acquaintances. One line of the arm, one line on the heart. The bastards who stood by my side with two lines, they'll be the hardest farewells I'll have to make in my life, and they're the luckiest fortune I've met in my lifetime.”

Heart Mean Two Sides Black Lines Arms Mets Dignity Fortune Lifetime Hardest Farewell Acquaintance One Line Deceased

Author:Yoon Sang-hyun

“Beauty is all about form; proportions and the relationships between one line and another.”

Form Lines Proportion One Line

Author:Christian Louboutin

“I'm a comedian and there are a lot of things I'm still learning. I love one liners because I love smart jokes. I also don't like complaining about society or whining about my life on stage.”

Stills Stage Smart Jokes Complaining Comedian One Liner Whining One Line

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“I think brilliant stuff comes out of working with limitations. One liners are very limiting, but that's what drew me to them in the first place.”

Thinking Firsts Stuff Brilliant Limitation One Liner One Line

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“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.”

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Author:Brian Regan

“I think that people talk about radical life extensions as if it is just one linear kind of journey, when actually what's going to happen is we're going to radically expand our lives billions and billions of times in every way, in every dimension and so I'm looking forward to things I can't even imagine yet.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Kind I Can Happens Our Lives Imagine Journey Billions Radical Just One Dimensions Extensions Looking Forward Linear One Line

Author:Barry Ptolemy

“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.”

Ifs Writing Reason Three Lines Answers Week Six Pages Producers One Line

Author:Hugh Bonneville

“If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one line of one poem, you'll be very lucky indeed.”

Ifs Years Firsts Ends Feelings Fighting Lines Written Lucky Ten Fifteen Fifteen Years One Line

Author:e. e. cummings

“History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points of view, belief in simple solutions, lack of balance of mind, absence of an imaginative understanding.”

Mind Helping Belief Understanding Lines Simple Views Balance Intellectual Solutions Faults Point Of View Absence Concentration Remedy Imaginative One Line Simple Solutions

Author:Geoffrey Elton

“A new report claims that William Shakespeare was a marijuana user and may have been high when he wrote some of his plays. Which explains that one line: 'To be, or not to be . . . Wait, what was the question?'”

May Has Beens Play Waiting Lines Claims Reports Marijuana Users One Line Be Or Not To Be

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“It doesn't matter whether it comes in by cable, telephone lines, computor, or satellite. Everyone's going to have to deal with Disney.”

Matter Lines Deals Telephones Cables Satellites One Line

Author:Michael Eisner

“I spent a year in Professor Baker's famous class at Harvard. There, too, I learned some things that were useful to me-particularly what not to do. Not to take ten lines, for instance, to say something that can be said in one line.”

Years Said Lines Class Ten Instance Professors Harvard Bakers One Line

Book:Conversations with Eugene O'Neill

Source: Conversations with Eugene O'Neill

“A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.”

Lines Produce Intellect Prose One Line

Author:Edward Thomas

“Drama was always clogging up the phone line. It's like that's what people call me for.”

People Lines Drama Phones Call Me One Line Clogging Clogging Up

Author:Andre Braugher

“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.”

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Author:Guy Pearce

“One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.”

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Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“While American football is very structured and linear and static, where everyone lines up and there's a burst and it happens, soccer is like the cosmos. It's like constellations. It's bodies moving in space. It's a very spherical game. You can move in any direction, at any time.”

Body Happens Moving Games Lines Space Football Soccer Cosmos Static Linear American Football Constellations Moving In One Line

Author:Gabriel Luna

“In my mind, I'm doing everything, but in reality, I'm doing very, very little. You come up with one idea, one moment, one line that leads to something and you feel like it's easy. And then, you sit back and think there would be no show without that.”

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Author:Timothy Olyphant

“I like letting takes play out, beginning to end. I don't like doing pick-ups of one line or another. I like letting the actors discover the flow of the scene, inside the scene as a whole.”

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Author:Jason Winer

“There's this moment sometimes, when you do a crossword puzzle and you have the one really long word. And once you get that, the whole thing kind of comes into focus. Sometimes it's just working things over in your mind and then finding that one line that kind of ties the song together, and now it works. It's a puzzle of sorts.”

Mind Kind Long Sometimes Whole Moments Together Song Lines Focus Findings Ties Working It Puzzles One Line Really Long Crosswords Long Words Working Things

Author:Craig Finn

“Sometimes, I'll read a news story and there will be one line about something else, and I'll find it interesting and look into it. That can often turn into an entire story on its own.”

Looks Sometimes Stories Turns Lines Interesting News One Line News Stories

Author:Joshuah Bearman

“I try to take notes of things that happen that I think are important or interesting or just little tidbits here and there that happen in life. And some of it's even just one line or like a saying and I just go off that.”

Thinking Trying Littles Important Happens Lines Interesting Notes Just One Here And There One Line

Author:Courtney Barnett

“I find myself improvising a lot. But, sometimes I'll come us with a chorus or just one line and it will sort of hang out for a long time before it get's flushed out into a real living song.”

Long Real Sometimes Song Lines Long Time Just One Hanging Out Chorus One Line Improvising

Author:Kate Brown

“The fact that you have a policy of such consequence directly affecting millions of people and you have a legal question of great consequence about the scope of the president's authority to act in implementing the immigration laws in this way and you have a one-line decision from the court affirming by an equally-divided court, it's an inevitable consequence of where we are.”

People Way Facts Law President Lines Decision Millions Policy Authority Consequence Court Immigration Inevitable Divided Scope Affirming One Line Implementing Immigration Laws

Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.

“I had one line. My two larger scenes had gone fine, and then on that day I screwed up that line over and over and over again. And every time I screwed it up, they can't use the whole thing because they're only using the one shot [in Blue Jasmin]. That was my last day.”

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Author:Alden Ehrenreich

“Todd Glass has amazing energy on stage. Dave Attell is one of my favorites because he's a one liner comic who is always incredibly in the moment with the audience. As for newer people, I think Adrienne Iapalucci writes some great, dark jokes and Sean Patton has a hilarious voice on stage.”

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Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“The mind/body connection is like a telephone line - many telephone lines, in fact, teeming with information. Small things like drinking an orange juice with pulp or eating an apple is being received like a telephone call to your genes. Every thought, every thing you eat, every single little thing can tweak your genes activity towards healing.”

“A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962

“[Shoji] Hamada's [drawings] were little one-line notations of something he wanted to remember about a pot or a piece of furniture or a landscape or something like that, and they were just done very quickly and they had, he thought, no artistic quality. They're not great drawings, but they served to remind him of something he had in his mind, so that when he then went to the studio, that would stick in his mind and he could explore the making of the pot with the clay on the wheel.”

Mind Littles Done Wanted Remember Lines Quality Pieces Sticks Studios Drawing Artistic Landscape Wheels Pot Furniture Clay One Line

Author:Warren MacKenzie

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