The way to success is not a straight line segment. It’s a dotted line with little packs of failure filling the potholes of broken edges inbetween.

In the marathon of life, there is no finish line.

There’s an expectation these days that novels – like any other consumer product – should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

There’s more flexibility in the cartoon world than there is in video games. In video games, if I tweak a line, I could screw up the work of countless other people with my whim.

Forty is the line of demarcation that says you’re an adult now. You’re an adult, so don’t pretend you’re a kid anymore.

Being a successful CEO, where I’ve driven a bottom line, assembled teams, driven results, that’s a critical benefit to running the state government.

I don’t write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That’s how I write songs. I’ll...

There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we’re doing in Afghanistan today.

When I trade, I don’t have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it’s not his neck on the line.

There is always a commanding and simple line around each head. Learn to have a love for the big simple line.

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

Never let someone who draws a line and say you can’t cross it intimidate you. Don’t be discouraged when someone says you can’t do it. You might have been the only one sent to do...

The bottom line is: You are in control of your reactions to things and how you view things.

I put everything in that last lap, it was very emotional when I crossed the line. It was all I had, I gave it all.

The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet.

I don’t see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.

The Zionists are very much, very adventuresome, very much seeking to fabricate things, and I think they see themselves at the end of the line, and I do firmly believe that they seek to create...

Look, we need to make time, but we also need to be somewhat quiet.” She faced him. “I am being quiet!”Pathik held a finger up to his lips. “Seriously. Quite. You don’t really want to...

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

The line you tow is a sign that all will be fine!

In everyone’s life, there is a line between reality and dreams; but poets don’t have that line.

It’s not like it’s hard to be decent and respectful and well-behaved. I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do do my own grocery shopping, and I do take...

And, for instance, Baptists, Adventists, Lutherans, Pentecostals – let them exist on line with others.

I really don’t know what makes a comedian. I think it’s a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.

Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.

I would definitely line up for ‘The Lord of the Rings.’ I’m a huge ‘Lord of the Rings’ geek.

The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

I think political correctness is a moving line.

Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to.

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all ‘bottom line’ editors; everything depends on the money.

I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.

You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.

On a daily basis, you’re working with Steve Carell; you’re not working with Ricky Gervais. You try a line, and you can’t be writing for David Brent. You have to be writing for Michael Scott...

Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you’re just way out of line.

During the boom years of the 1990s, globalization emerged as the most significant development in our national life. With NAFTA and the Internet and big-box stores selling cheap goods from China, the line between national...

I can’t do a one-camera show. I don’t know how to do that kind of show where you count in your head and then you do the next line.

The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can’t really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge...

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

The thing about a pick-up line is, even if it works, then what? I just figure you unapologetically be yourself, and if it works, cool.

My parents weren’t at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment.

At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.

For those people who don’t know what Whiteboy clothing is, it is not a white-supremacy thing. It is a great clothing line that just says, ‘Have fun.’

In Bollywood, people struggle because there is a new person joining every week, who joins an assembly line of people who are very replaceable. But if you are unique, you don’t have to struggle that...

You can’t always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager’s got some sphere of autonomy. Don’t...

I’m on the front line and I am a rapper.

My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank’s goal variables – output, employment, and inflation.

As I’ve written before, China’s ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn’t where its role in the global economy ended; it was where it began. An ability to make products cheaper than...

Can you imagine, in 2030, taking a space cruise on the very ship that carried the first human beings to Mars? I can’t believe that people wouldn’t line up for that possibility.

If I was on a third or fourth line I would probably be in the NHL, because you don’t have to produce every night.