Usually [the lyrics] go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too.
One of the most refreshing changes I've seen in recent years is the blending of genres - the pushing past the hard-and-fast lines of specific publishing categories.
Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.
That [film What's My Line] was very useful to me because it had Branch Rickey in a social situation. Every other bit of film [42] that I had was him making a speech.
Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.
There's such a kind of complicated line between politics and the law and we don't sit around and say, hey, you know, what would Oliver Wendell Holmes have had to say to this.
As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.
The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop - for convenience, the one hundredth meridian - you have reached the West.
Political reporters and political professionals rushed to judgment against Romney because we crave clear, unambiguous story lines.
You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
I put myself on the line with my truth and my sexuality. That is my choice. My choice
Compromise, hell! That's what has happened to us all down the line -- and that's the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?
There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway?
My tombstone? I'm thinking something along the lines of, 'Geez, he was just here a minute ago. '
We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside.
No one said you can't go outside the lines.
In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.
One must be able to say at all times--instead of points, straight lines, and planes--tables, chairs, and beer mugs
But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.
Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.