Quotes about One Line

God teaches us to love by putting some unlovely people around us. Votes: 3

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it. Votes: 3

An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally. Votes: 2

Prayer can do anything that God can do. Votes: 2

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates. Votes: 2

I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough? Votes: 2

Though you have changed a thousand times, He has not changed once. Votes: 2

No detail of your life is too insignificant for your heavenly Father's attention. Votes: 2

I've got to watch myself these days. It's too exciting watching anyone else. Votes: 2

The idea of being a character who is kind of isolated, I can relate to that. Votes: 2

There are certain things that cannot be adequately explained to a virgin either by words or pictures. Votes: 2

i still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line... Votes: 2

Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume. Votes: 2

Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you. Votes: 2

The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. Votes: 2

If Christ's message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness, not rules and divisiveness. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it. Votes: 2

I'll tell you something. Once I was very fond of a poem by Emily Dickinson or somebody. I only remember one line of it, but it goes, 'The soul selects her own society.' I used to tell it to everybody. Once I quoted it to a friend of mine, and he said, 'Maybe, but the body gets thrown into bed with the goddamnedest people. Votes: 2

Even in motocross, you're struggling to see people pass each other anymore. There seems to be one line in motocross. Votes: 1

It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot. Votes: 1

I'm down to act a little bit - go on a couple auditions or make one of those three-second cameos with one line. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

We mustn't forget we chose the name 'WWW' before there was even one line of code written. We could do that because the Internet as an infrastructure was already there. Votes: 1

Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting. Votes: 1

No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences. Votes: 1

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I deliberate over the lyrics; I really do. I'll come up with one line in a day, and then it might be a couple of days before I come up with the rhyming line. It's never been easy for me. Votes: 1

When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on. Votes: 1

When kids tried to pick on me, I always had one line to shoot them down with: 'I make more money in a week than you'll make in your entire life.' Which probably wasn't true, but they thought it was. Votes: 1

I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin. Votes: 1

When we first started 'The Big Bang Theory,' I would get incredibly nervous because it's such a big show and I was just out of graduate school. I'd come in and have this huge responsibility for the one line that everyone hopes will bring down the house. Votes: 1

One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn't. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they'll get penalized with lower benefits. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I think I do have a way of predicting - not always accurately - what is a nerve-wracking day for actors, what may be a difficult scene or a difficult moment, how small - and it may be down to one line - a thing maybe that is upsetting or undermining a performance. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

One of the reasons you take a role is because it's something you always wanted to do, from going to the movies as a kid. I always wanted to do a 1950s movie, for example. And I got a chance to be in 'Peggy Sue Got Married.' I would have taken only one line of dialogue to be in that. Votes: 1

I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be' this person, you know? So then its like, if I'm really this person, how can I be in the moment if I know there's just one line I'm supposed to say? It doesn't feel natural. I always just kind of want to say whatever comes up. Votes: 1

I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you. Votes: 1

One line plus one line results in many meanings. Votes: 0

The secret is writing down one simple line after another. Votes: 0

The difference between freedom and slavery is one thin line Votes: 0

The line between passionate and crazy can be a thin one. Votes: 0

The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God. Votes: 0

You can throw a novel into focus with one overheard line. Votes: 0

One biographer said Kennedy lived along the line where charm became power. Votes: 0

A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line. Votes: 0

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. Votes: 0

There's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy. Votes: 0

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. Votes: 0

I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody. Votes: 0

You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns? Votes: 0

MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death. Votes: 0

Beauty is all about form; proportions and the relationships between one line and another. Votes: 0

Holiness gives us new desires and brings old desires into line with one another. Votes: 0

There is no finish line. When you reach one goal, find a new one. Votes: 0

Christian--One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife. Votes: 0

The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above. Votes: 0

When the ball is on the one-yard line, never risk a fumble. Carry it over yourself. Votes: 0

No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story. Votes: 0

Loyalty, up and down the line. That's one quality an organization must have to be successful. Votes: 0

While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points. Votes: 0

While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points Votes: 0

One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't. Votes: 0

The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate. Votes: 0

Secondly, love and relationships are complicated. No one could ever get it right in a four-line sentence. Votes: 0

It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line. Votes: 0

There's one sure way to stop us from scoring ... give us the ball near the goal line. Votes: 0

I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect. Votes: 0

One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then. Votes: 0

To be successful one must make change an ongoing process. Quality is a race with no finish line. Votes: 0

You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it. Votes: 0

Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted. Votes: 0

I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere. Votes: 0

Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can't see any difference between take one and take 20. Votes: 0

Investments are like trains, and if you miss one, don't worry because another one will come down the line. Votes: 0

The bottom line is, if you're not the one controlling your learning, you're not going to learn as well. Votes: 0

I've never done anything comedic. In all the years I've been an actor, I've never delivered one comedic line. Votes: 0

It's human nature to tear one another apart. Be glad you come from such a successful line of killers. Votes: 0

The line is very delicate and fine between being what one might call sane or insane, well or unwell. Votes: 0

I've always liked extreme performers; I don't think I am one, but my mentality is in line with that. Votes: 0

There's a thin line between genius and insanity - and I always get labelled as being the crazy one. Votes: 0

Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls: Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love. Votes: 0

If I could give you one line about writing worship songs, it would be ‘Sing your prayers.' Votes: 0

Even in motocross, youre struggling to see people pass each other anymore. There seems to be one line in motocross. Votes: 0

In the spiritual life, you must take one step forward each day in a vertical line, from the bottom up. Votes: 0

Confidence is on one side of the line, and self-belief is on another. People all think those are mixed up. Votes: 0

I think the line between "inspiration" and "plagiarism" is often so thin, that you risk falling into the latter one. Votes: 0

America is the one that has led the effort to strengthen NATO and strengthen the front-line states against Russia's pressures. Votes: 0

When they came to you for your line, you had to be ready and you had to get it in one. Votes: 0

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty. Votes: 0

An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons. Votes: 0

The one key line used by a very rich Hudson salesman: Would you like to buy a car now, without waiting? Votes: 0

What strikes me is that theres a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference. Votes: 0

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development-- Votes: 0

Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business. Votes: 0

What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference. Votes: 0

One thing is to escape from prison, but what the Texas 7 did that night crossed the line they should have never crossed. Votes: 0

Usually [the lyrics] go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too. Votes: 0

God, three weddings in one day, I'm going to be in Spanx for 12 hours. My elastic line is gonna get infected again. Votes: 0

I won't go into detail but this animated one, the story line is very cool and the kids seem to love it. Votes: 0

One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from. Votes: 0

One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from. Votes: 0

I've been so lucky that there's been such an intense and positive response to the line. It's one of the craziest things. Votes: 0

There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other. Votes: 0

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it. Votes: 0

Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another. Votes: 0

Ultimately, there is no dividing line between Main Street and Wall Street. We will rise or we will fall together as one nation. Votes: 0

The hard part is that this is a very fine line. There's right on one side of it, and crazy on the other. Votes: 0

There's a thread that binds all of us together; pull one end of the thread, the strain is felt all down the line. Votes: 0

The reason that people say one line at junkets is that they've heard the same question 37 times. You get bored out of your mind. Votes: 0

The bottom line on attitude is that a good one helps to increase your possibilities. Pessimists usually get what they expect. So do optimists. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If the World Series was on the line and I could pick one pitcher to pitch the game, I'd choose Whitey Ford every time. Votes: 0

At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest. Votes: 0

I think that you can say something in one line with a look that you might need three lines on a page for normally. Votes: 0

I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality. Votes: 0

The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies? Votes: 0

The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing on. Votes: 0

Both of them can get it. They can line up. I'll fight both of them in one night, and I bet it won't go 12 rounds. Votes: 0

Somewhere along the line I'll be recognized as one of the top players in the Nicklaus era. That's all I want to be remembered for. Votes: 0

This is like being in the super bowl. It's first down, you're on the one yard line, You either make a touchdown or you're hosed. Votes: 0

When I die, they might as well bury me at the finish line at Churchill Downs so they can run over me one more time. Votes: 0

I look at my kid, and one part of me wants to keep her as my little baby. But, y'know, the bottom line is she's 18! Votes: 0

At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line. Votes: 0

You cant drag people from understanding to action. A customer isnt actually at the last mile if youre the one dragging her to the finish line. Votes: 0

I started Botox the first year it came out. I was the first one in line, and I have had Botox every six months since then. Votes: 0

be the kiss in my hairthat no one seesmove, when i movesigh, when i sigh...be that line from a poemthat i hold in my eyes. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There are people who own cars and are getting free cell phones. A car helps one find a job, too. Where do you draw the line? Votes: 0

Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line. Votes: 0

A lot of lip service gets paid to being honest, but no one really wants to hear it unless what's being said is the party line. Votes: 0

How to run an ultramarathon ? Puff out your chest, put one foot in front of the other, and don't stop till you cross the finish line. Votes: 0

No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace. Votes: 0

One series of notes, high and delicate, sang of a sweet moonlight kiss gone sour; another line of music rippled with regret over opportunities forever lost. Votes: 0

You can't drag people from understanding to action. A customer isn't actually at the last mile if you're the one dragging her to the finish line. Votes: 0

Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand. Votes: 0

They almost had to cancel the Oscars tonight because all of the designers and stylists are still in line in San Francisco trying to marry one another. Votes: 0

A great pickup line is one I don't even notice. It has me connecting with you, laughing, having a good time. And that definitely gets my attention. Votes: 0

I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully sung line. Votes: 0

Telling a joke is risk taking. Younger people are more insecure and not willing to put themselves on the line, so a quick one-liner is much safer. Votes: 0

That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions Votes: 0

When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line. Votes: 0

Right now I'd like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I'd give each a black eye. Votes: 0

Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree. Votes: 0

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major. Votes: 0

One senses the figures as passing by the tree line and, caught in the presence of the wall, turning to gaze upon it almost as a vision. Votes: 0

The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at last collapses or "caves in. Votes: 0

I'm generally somebody who hopes for the best. It's not what one ought to do in my line of work [screenwriting], but it is what I do. Votes: 0

All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing. Votes: 0

One time he (Cool Papa Bell) hit a line drive right past my ear. I turned around and saw the ball hit his ass sliding into second. Votes: 0

A horizontal or vertical line lacks energy, compared with one that deviates from either. The difference between these graphic expressions is the difference between movement and repose. Votes: 0

The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it. Votes: 0

That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions. Votes: 0

Keep everything in context, and try to have each line doing more than one thing - not just giving exposition but also revealing character and history, etc. Votes: 0

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be? Votes: 0

I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straightening shyness that assails one. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Ramones went through a couple different line-up changes, and Johnny and Joey held through the whole thing. So right now I'm the only one hanging in there. Votes: 0

The Australian Open attracts one of the most competitive line-ups in the world and I'm looking forward to putting the heat on some of my old on-court rivals. Votes: 0

I done drew the line. Just like the Alamo. You're either on one side of the line or the other. I don't want to ever leave Texas again. Votes: 0

I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth. Votes: 0

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. Votes: 0

There'd never been a clothing line made by a young woman like me: a multiethnic woman who has one foot in Gucci and one foot in the ghetto. Votes: 0

I'd love to do a fashion label in the future. I've been thinking a lot recently about maybe making a line of little dresses, so maybe one day. Votes: 0

Since one never knows what will be the line of advance, it is always most rash to condemn what is not quite in the fashion of the moment. Votes: 0

Success isn't one straight line - it's a ladder, and there's always another rung above you to reach out for. Like anything else, there are ups and downs. Votes: 0

We expanded the brand to include a whole line of apparel and accessories, but we quickly learned that it was not good to have one channel of distribution. Votes: 0

I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl. Votes: 0

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line. Votes: 0

Sometimes a line of mathematical research extending through decades can be thought of as one long conversation in which many mathematicians take part. This is fortunately true at present. Votes: 0

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land. Votes: 0

One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away. Votes: 0

[...]when two people have become present to each other, the waiting of one must be able to cross the narrow line between the living or dying of the other. Votes: 0

I've always felt that a really good joke, a really good one-liner, is a really good line of poetry. It's imagistic, it's compact, there is a rhythm to it. Votes: 0

An English village could never be mistaken for an American one: the outline against the sky differs; a thatched cottage makes a very wavy line on the blue above. Votes: 0

Because I've been making music and releasing it for so long, I've got that production-line thing in my brain: I can't do anything new until the last one's out. Votes: 0

Voice acting is very different from live-action. You only have one tool to convey emotion. You can't sell a line with a look. It's all about your vocal instrument. Votes: 0

At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there. Votes: 0

I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita...."Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another. Votes: 0

Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other Votes: 0

I can remember standing in a W.P.A. line with a gunny sack, and I remember having to buy chocolate milk instead of white because it was one cent cheaper. Votes: 0

Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one,” Dr. Poblocki said. “When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0