Doing a TV show, you’re on an assembly line and it’s as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things.

That’s what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you’re hitting a line or making it funny.

I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.

The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being...

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

…red sings like summer in the shadows, hot on my tongue…

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.

You may hit the bar, you may cross the forbidden line, you may cause many fouls, but when you stay on, you will definitely get your goals being the winning goals…

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking

At the end of the day, if you can’t say a line right, it does not matter who your contacts are.

There’s a thin line between an uncertain ‘Yes’ and a certain ‘No’ known as ‘lame indecisiveness’.

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.

When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that’s where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.

Time passed at an accelerated pace. They could be sitting in traffic or talking on the phone or waiting in line for a movie, and their time felt precious, important, worthwhile.

Luckily I don’t have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I’m off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy...

The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort.

When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it’s like you’ve thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity.

I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don’t know.

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

The north-south line of ‘the mountains,’ meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier.

The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it’s done to be shared. It is comforting and consoling. From the reactions I get I can...

Every game I’ve ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line.

I got a hat deal with Resistol, where I have my own line of cowboy hats.

In a long meter hymn, a singer – they call it ‘lays out a line.’ And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight,...

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what’s real and what’s interesting.

I come from a long line of sportsmen.

Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political...

I think there are multiple studies now to demonstrate that diversity, a better balance between genders, but also between different fields as well, is actually conducive to better growth, better bottom line, better results.

I have about two or three people, we don’t have an office, we don’t even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work.

The ABA works tirelessly in its efforts involving the first line of defense: the prevention of burn injuries.

I don’t know why we have to put things in boxes of superlatives. That isolates them. Life is fluid, and the minute you start trying to put a line around something, it will deceive you...

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

I’m useless at staring at a piece of white paper. But if you put a piece of white paper with a black line on it in front of me, I’ll say no that black line...

Every major summer blockbuster that is released is essentially a product line being launched across multiple verticals. However, the centerpiece of the product launch is a big, beautiful story whose job is to entertain.

I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well.

Have you been waiting in this line her whole life?

Woody Allen likes to do a lot of master shots. He likes to get the whole thing in one take, and so you could be going along doing a scene, and then the next to...

Transforming a line like that makes it into a belly laugh instead of a laugh against us.

Waiting in line for something mundane is very boring. Waiting for my doctor to see me and waiting for my dentist to see me, yes, that is boring.

It’s a thin line between what we’re calling acceptable and not acceptable. As a leader, you’re supposed to know when not to cross it. But how do you know? Does the army teach us how...

The ones who were negotiating are now on the front line of this intifada, because they found that the negotiations didn’t give them the minimum of their rights.

The bottom line is that after we defeat the armed forces of Iraq, that we will want to and need to provide stability throughout that country.

Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves. … Lines give birth to lines. Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing. … Make a...

If we say yes to something we believe is wrong now, what guarantee is there that the wrong will not be further exacerbated down the line?

Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn’t it, of a long line of proven criminals?

Iran has interest in seeing that the Shia population of Iraq basically adhere to a line that comes from Iran.

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.