Top 1200 Long Line Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I thought Clint Eastwood was cool in all the western movies, but I'm not gonna drive somewhere he's at and stand in line to see him. I told Missy, my wife, 'The only person I'd stand in line for is God Almighty. You made the universe? All right, I'll get in line!'

I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line.

On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

Normally, racing drivers come from a long line of previous successful sports people.

I start out with words, with the idea, the line. Then after I get a line or two, I try to find what melodic line those lines would be suited to. As soon as I find the form I can finish the song in my head.

If we try hard to do what that truth requires of us, God will send more light and more truth. It will go on, line after line, as long as we choose to obey the truth. That is why the Savior said that the man who obeyed His commandments built on a rock so solid that no storm of flood could hurt his house.

I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is, but I know I have a line.

We like to be punks. We like to still be kind of edgy and if being edgy means you might teeter on that line of being inappropriate, I'm still willing to teeter on that line, even at my age. But some of them go over that line and you've gotta draw that line somewhere.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

Each story, good and bad, short or long-from that trip to the mall when you saw Santa, to a long, bad illness-they are all a line or a paragraph in our own life manuscript. Two thirds of the way through, even, and it all won't necessarily make sense, but at the end there'll be a beautiful whole, where every sentence of every chapter fits.

I'm having my portrait painted, for example, so that will be then put up at Longleat and hopefully stay here for a long time. You become part of a long line that goes back and will hopefully continue. That's what you want. You just want the house to survive, and you do everything you can to maintain it, look after it and support.

My position on guns is the same position I've had for a long, long time. That position is that I don't line up a hundred percent with the NRA. I don't see eye to eye with the NRA on every issue.

Faith allows me to feel that as long as I'm in line with God everything will be O.K. and that I'll make it through whatever.

People tend to assume that I come from a long line of castle-dwelling gentry and am made of money.

I think that one-liners are very important and sometimes you don't even know when you're making the movie that it's going to be a great line. I remember when we did 'The Terminator' and I came to the line "I'll be back" I had no idea that it was going to be an important line.

I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.

All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem

I think, as long as I'm in this line of work, I'm always going to be mentioned when Celtic are looking for a new manager.

You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.

I come from a long line of matriarchal women, and my greatest teachers were my mothers.

I've got a line called Head's Up that's street wear slash rock wear, rock and roll. Kind of a little blend of a line within a line that's very high fashion.

It had long been an ambition to find the line of force that might lead to the Holy Land in the time of Christ.

One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read The Metamorphosis. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, “As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. . . .” When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn’t know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago. So I immediately started writing short stories.

Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line.

I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue.

Instead of thinking in terms of chords, I think of voice-leading; that is, melody line and bass line, and where the bass line goes. If you do that, you'll have the right chord. [These voices] will give you some alternatives, and you can play those different alternatives to hear which one suits your ear. Keep the bass line moving so you don't stay in one spot: if you have an interesting bass line and you roll it against the melody, the chords are going to come out right.

There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line.... People will always be waiting at a particular finish line: journalists with their cameras, impatient crowds eager to call the race, astounded to see the scientists approach, pass the mark, and keep running. It's a common misunderstanding, he said. They conclude there was no race. As long as we won't commit to knowing everything, the presumption is we know nothing.

I come from a long line of saloon keepers and proselytizers, and I draw from both sides.

I am descended from a very long line my mother once foolishly listened to.

Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me.

Gingivitis has been eroding the gum line of this great nation long enough.

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.

Americans will buy anything, as long as it doesn't cross the thin line between cute and demonic.

What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists.

Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle.

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.

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.

Well, I think baseball should be fun, but there's always a line. There's a fine line with everything. Where's the line between making it fun and making it disrespectful.

The SEC is a line-of-scrimmage league. You'd better be good up front, or you're going to have some long days.

We did four months on 'Line of Duty' from beginning to end, and that would be a long theater run.

If you write a good line, you write a good line, and the best line wins in television. It doesn't matter if you're the guy who gets the coffee or if you're the showrunner - best line wins. That's the beauty of television collaboration.

You can see the latest dumbness as just the end of a long line of dumbnesses that have been taking place for thousands of years.

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.

Marvin Bell always looked very closely at how lines could break, how you could put over one line into the second line. How you could stop the line two or three times within the line: You could make it stop.

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.

The reality is that I need to be challenged and interested, as long as the risk and reward is in line.

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies.

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

'Global warming' is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible.

Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!

At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window.

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.

I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.

Now, I come from a long line of narcissists. And I also have no kids - by choice - but I understand not being a mother and the pain that comes from that.

The bottom line for me is that life is short and art is long.

I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.

Not many people know this but we come from a long line of chicken, pineapple and onion farmers at Ingham in Queensland.

The image people have of comedians staring defiantly over a stationary line of good taste is simply inaccurate. We don't approach this line, put our toes over it arrogantly and then scamper back to safety. The line doesn't exist.

It is a sad hardship and slavery to people who live in towns, that in their movements they know of one dimension only; they walk along the line as if they were led on a string. The transition from the line to the plane into the two dimensions, when you wander across a field or through a wood, is a splendid liberation to the slaves, like the French Revolution. But in the air you are taken into the full freedom of the three dimensions; after long ages of exile and dreams the homesick heart throws itself into the arms of space.