You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
Earl Weaver

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.
Eudora Welty

Fragile egos are put on the line every day.
Mary Lou Retton

I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that; so this was just a step for me in that direction.
Diana Ross

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant

There really have only ever been a few people in each generation who step out, are willing to put themselves on the line, and risk everything for their beliefs.
Wynton Marsalis

Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way.
Jerry Stiller

Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear.
Brian May

It's really important to draw the line on what we do as actors.
Anna Friel

I thought my character definitely was very much in love with him and wanted to be with him, but I think at some point they were going to have to draw the line.
Rosario Dawson

Somewhere along the line, Bob said I'd better begin taking this business seriously, because, whether I liked it or not, I had a career.
Shelley Duvall

It's great to be recognized when I'm looking for a table at a crowded restaurant, but I still don't put it to best use. I'm such a lump. I won't cut the line. It's my Catholic guilt. I gotta get used to it.
Christopher Meloni

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
Arthur Erickson

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
Arthur Erickson

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
Arthur Erickson

I have about two or three people, we don't have an office, we don't even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work.
John Zorn

I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
Sam Donaldson

My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.
Rafael Palmeiro

My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing.
Rick Moranis

Like the American soldiers who went before them, they are putting their lives on the line to protect ours.
Doc Hastings