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A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.
f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!
Even in the days of the tightest credit in 2008, HELOCs [ home equity line of credit ] and home equity loans were being made.
We must never give a free hand to those who want to subjugate us, draw this line so that New York will never become New Mecca.
I think it's OK to talk about your military service, but there's a fine line between, you know, too much and just about right.
Some sell their soul for the easy road. The devil's always buying. I can't count the ones I've known who fell right into line.
Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.
Well I'm living in a foreign country but I'm bound to cross the line. Beauty walks a razor's edge...someday I'll make it mine.
The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.
The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.
One of the parodoxes of war is that those in the rear want to get up into the fight, while those in the lines want to get out.
I've always loved to prove people wrong. I want to be able to cross color lines, because in music, there really is no barrier.
I don't go to the start line expecting to win. I go to the start believing this could be the day when incredible things happen
The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference.
Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can't remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy.
But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.
The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level, indefensible.
In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.
We are the fault line; if you don't deal with this fault line, you're going to have an earthquake, that's what we always said.
I think some of my colleagues' spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.
I don't really look at myself as a power hitter. I look at myself as someone who drives the ball to the gaps, hits line drives.
The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.
The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which is given by those lines.
I feel like we're going to see a lot more movies that mix documentary style with fiction, more along the lines of 'District 9.'
I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
I knew every one of my father's lines in 'Glory' - I broke the VHS tape - but I hid my love of acting to make it as my own man.
Writing is a business and should be practiced as such. On days when you think you can’t possibly write a line you do it anyhow.
We didn't invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead. We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.
I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.
I joined the army after 9/11, after the Iraq war was started. I joined in part because I wanted to go fight on the front lines.
There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, and it comes in many forms.
When you get above the line, you're above the line. So my thing is I just want to make music where I am always above that line.
There's certain companies that line up with what the brand represents. There are other things that are more investment-focused.
Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines.
I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.
There's no black and white dividing line between a mild Aspergers, which is the mild autism, and computer engineer, for example.
You can see the latest dumbness as just the end of a long line of dumbnesses that have been taking place for thousands of years.
Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.
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.
Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate.
There is something wrong when you wait in line thirty minutes to get a hamburger that was cooked for ninety seconds an hour ago.
I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.
As a matter of fact I don't like politics. I really don't. I think it's so jaded now and everybody has to follow the party line.
The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line.
This is like being in the super bowl. It's first down, you're on the one yard line, You either make a touchdown or you're hosed.
Music is so important. It changes thinking, it influences everybody, whether they know it or not. Music knows no boundary lines.
There are times we have to put our body on the line for what we believe, for the injustices we see even within our own families.
Renewal is not just innovation and change. It is also the process of bringing the results of change into line with our purposes.