Quotes of: Bottom-line Keyword

I finally realized the happy medium, 'honey blonde' was the correct color and line for me.

Ann Sothern

Like the 'good' characters in literature, the sane don't have any memorable lines.

Adam Phillips Going Sane

Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

John Avlon

Whenever I put myself out there on the line, skating against other people, I simply want to win.

Shani Davis

Not all races are run on a track. And not all finish lines are marked by ticker tape.

Toni Sorenson

By unspoken agreement, we all picked an invisible line in the cracked asphalt and toed it.

Life

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

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

Arnold J. Toynbee

I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible boss.

Charlie Day

The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up.

Greta Scacchi

I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, 'doesn't play well with others.'

Jon Bon Jovi

It's rare to work on a series without a writer. If you have a question about a line, then phone calls have to be made.

Rebecca Mader

It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm's way and to put the lives of so many civilians on the line for the misguided frustrations of the Bush administration.

Dave Matthews

My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s.

Debra Winger

The women in porn plead to be abused. They call themselves whores and sluts. They are beaten and penetrated by groups of men. Their faces are covered with semen from dozens of masturbating men, their anuses are penetrated repeatedly by lines of partn...

Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

We live in a world of self-deprecation, and while it’s healthy to make fun of ourselves from time to time, it bothers me when I see women of all ages belittling their accomplishments because they don’t want to appear boastful or overconfident. Yo...

Brunette Ambition

She wrote poetry constantly; that was her "work". She was a slow bleeder and she slaved over it for long, exhausting hours, and many a middle of a night I could hear her creaking around the dead house with a pen in one hand, a clipboard and a flashli...

Bowl of Cherries

I phoned the Admiral back. 'It's no use, Admiral, the French speak nothing but French.' There was a short pause on the end of the line then his voice rattled into life like a sabre. 'They're lying, Tim!' 'What?' 'The French Navy must by law speak Eng...

In The Bath: Conquering the Channel in a Piece of Plumbing

Loo, life is black and white. You don't know what's good for you, because you don't see the black and white! You don't see where the black lines end and where the white lines begin! You're going to grow up to be no good if you keep on that way. It's ...

Saint Paul Trois Chateaux: 1948

I sometimes wonder what it would have been like to have a childhood that was _not_ like mine. I have no real frame of reference, but when I question strangers I've found that their childhood generally had much less blood in it, and also that stranger...

Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

I tended to find lines of poetry beautiful only when I encountered them quoted in prose, in the essays my professors had assigned in college, where the line breaks were replaced with slashes, so that what was communicated was less a particular poem t...

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