Pat Sr.: Yeah, have Ernest Hemingway call us and apologize to us too.
We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line.
A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women's lives than they do about their or their company's bottom line.
A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive assembly line. They were cranking out 10 songs a day in that studio, or more.
Kiyoko: The future is not a straight line. It is filled with many crossroads. There must be a future that we can choose for ourselves.
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.
I'm not much for setup... punch line. I talk about my kids. I talk about my wife.
Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.
The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.
But I'm thrilled to be employed, and to work with all my friends and people that I admire. You're just lucky to work - that's the bottom line.
People love stories. They need stories.
I feel very strongly that every artist has one central story to tell. The struggle is to tell and retell that story over and over again, visual form, and try to challenge that story. But at the core that story remains the same. It's like the defining...
Give a man some cloth and he'll ask for some lining.
Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That’s what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to the futu...
The ‘experimental’ writer, then, is simply following the story’s commands to the best of his human ability. The writer is not the story, the story is the story. See? Sometimes this is very hard to accept and sometimes too easy. On the one hand,...
All stories are love stories.
A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.
Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.
Terror was the key, of course, for there's a fine line between paralyzing dread and galvanizing fright.
A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.
I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
