"I was second in line of defence, behind Myrna Loy."
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"Draw a straight line and follow it."
"Sexuality is half poison and half liberation. What’s the line? I don’t have a line."
"I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage."
"I just think that pick-up lines in general are horrible. None of them work."
"How do you know you told a good punch line, a good joke? It's because they laugh. How do you know you've got a good scary punch line? It's because they jump out of the seat or scream. So the best reward is one you can listen to."
"The straightest line between a straight distance is two points."
"The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords If when the soul unto the lines accords."
"I wish to walk in such a line as will give most general satisfaction."
"A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous."
"In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line."
"The bottom line is that it's better to run a workforce on security than insecurity."
"I memorize my lines and I show up. I think it's just instinctual, and sometimes it's wrong and the director says, "No, do it this way." And then I can change, because I didn't spend all night practicing it this one way. All I do to get ready for the day is the night before, I read my lines once or twice, memorize them, and then I show up."
"You don't need a pickup line. Just glance at a woman from across the room. Glance - don't stare."
"standing in line is a form of oppression"
"The first line (of I Am The Walrus) was written on one acid trip one weekend. The second line was written on the next acid trip the next weekend, and it was filled in after I met Yoko."
"We wrote our first blog post before we wrote our first line of code."
"I think that it definitely makes the transition easier being able to know linebacker and having also played on the defensive line. You can kind of know what they're expecting on the back end and what you are kind of expecting from them."
"I Walk The Line was my third record."
"We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images."