1,029 Quotes About Lines

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

The bottom line is that the euro is a failed experiment.

It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure...

As soon as they put the phone lines in, they were getting calls.

I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era.

Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a governing business, and so forth. And, of course, a God business, which is called 'religion,' and which is a particularly reprehensible line of endeavor.

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.

I'll sing over some chords, searching, what does [the music] conjure up, where's the melody taking you? 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.

I'm frequently surprised, sometimes bugged off, and sometimes happy, depending on the actor. It's a fact of life that just as often as not an actor can breathe life into a line as he can destroy it by misinterpretation, and I've been blessed frequently by having good actors.