My process is I try to learn my lines so they're so solid I don't have to think about them or how I'm going to say them.
Hey listen, I already have a complete list of silver linings. It's the goddamn cloud that's killin me.
If you're saying the same line 10 times and making it look like you just came up with it, that's acting.
As journalists, we cannot swallow the official line without question. We should challenge almost everything that dictators, presidents and officials say.
This was a report from a single source. It was an established and reliable line of reporting. It was quoted from a senior Iraqi military officer in a position to know this information.
A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.
The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.
Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.
The deepest mystery of Twitter is why celebrities and elected officials take part. After all, we all know they can't write their own lines.
All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.
When I went to the starting line of the 1976 Olympic marathon in Montreal, it was with the unsettling conviction that some of my competitors were cheaters.
It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.
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 iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the quintessential measure of English verse.
In fact, the bandits steal the drinks and assistance provided along the course. Worse, they cross the finish line and mess up the scoring of legitimate runners.
The line between angry young woman and grumpy old lady is very fine.
You have to remember where you came from, and I definitely have enough brothers and sisters to kick me in the butt whenever I get out of line!
I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.
One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other.
Dean Andrews: Kennedy's as dead as that crab meat, the government's alive and breathing. You gonna line up with a dead man, Jimbo?
Crewman: Sir! The mains are back on line! Kirk: Bless you Scotty! Go, Sulu!