Line X Quotes

Guys like me and Ray Charles, when we was coming up through our days, country music and soul music was just a very thin line between the two. — Percy Sledge

A language you cannot speak yourself is not necessarily a god-awful mess, Celia says, transcribing a line of symbols into her notebook. — Erin Morgenstern

Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book. — Italo Calvino

There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at. — Richard Pryor

The clouds roll on. Silent as sleepwalkers the clouds keep coming from infinity bank behind bank and line after line, and change colors on the earth. — Rolf Jacobsen

There are times in Annapolis when a governor's support can move an issue over the goal line. — Martin O'Malley

Certain Stanley Cup traditions remain intact, including the handshake line between players who had been belting one another for a couple of weeks. — George Vecsey

If you don't use an image now you might have a place to put it in further down the line - and I have a lot of unfinished drawings. — Raymond Pettibon

A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous. — Gustave Flaubert

I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics. — Robert Vaughn

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

Overachievers look forward to the finish line, underachievers look back to see who they are beating. — Bobby Hoffman

Chasing your dreams is like running a race in the dark, you may quit disheartened, not knowing you were one step away from the finish line. — Prerna Kumar

I'm just back in line with every other actor looking for a job right now and keeping my fingers crossed. — Joe Lando

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. — William Arthur Ward

There is a thin line between attraction and repulsion — Candace Bushnell

Wild animals walked in a straight line, tame ones tended to wander more aimlessly. — Asne Seierstad

I always wanted the ball in my hands with a game on the line, as I think any real competitor does. — Jerry West

I always want the last line to be really good, which may sound silly, but I want it to be a last pleasing line. — Elizabeth McCracken

Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion. — Paul Theroux

I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though. — Elton John

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

Nothing is worth putting my health on the line. Not a camera, not a title, nothing. — Marcel Hirscher

What power there is in our service when our actions line up with our mission, skills and joy. — Mary Anne Radmacher

I'm in the kitchen five days a week, no matter what, and one or two of those days I'm on the line. Not because I have to be, but because I want to be. — Marc Forgione

I recruited a Czech kicker, and during the eye exam, when asked to read the bottom line, the kicker replied, Read it? I know him. — Woody Hayes

a madman's line of fire. — James Patterson

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message. — Stephen King

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. — Sammy Davis Jr.

I'm not much for setup ... punch line. I talk about my kids. I talk about my wife. — Al Madrigal

Somewhere along the line, I'd developed a deep, burning dislike for the human race. There seemed to be no cure. — Adrianne Brooks

Mostly in movies an actor has to come to a mark, an X, and deliver his line - but that's so artificial, that's not how people really behave. — Bruce Robinson