For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn't have come till 1970.
John McGahern

For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties.
Kurt Student

For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie.
John Sayles

For me, I have no political ego in this thing with respect to any other leader and what they might feel is appropriate or necessary in what they're going to try to do... We need everybody on the front lines.
Marc Morial

For me, it's a bigger challenge, it's much harder to do and much more rewarding to do well, then just to think up stuff of your own, hit or miss, because you've got to see to it that you don't torpedo any of his punch lines.
Humphrey Lyttelton

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.
Cardinal Richelieu

Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along.
Charlie Hunnam

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.
Lois Wyse

Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it.
Thomas Jane

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.
Joe Biden

Hidden in a long text, there are perhaps three lines that count.
Alexander Kluge

Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.
Fred Thompson

How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.
Dar Williams

I always know my lines.
Vivien Leigh

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.
Lawrence Welk

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.
Danny Bonaduce

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.
Carrie Fisher

I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself.
Miroslav Vitous

I could only speak in the smallest, most intimate circles about the real reasons which made me undertake the changeover of the plants for certain lines of production for I had to expect that many people would not understand me.
Gustav Krupp

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.
Gavin DeGraw