Direct Line Quotes

#1. There's nothing more daunting than a musical, but there's also no more direct line to joy. Getting there, though, is like pushing treacle up stairs.

Tim Curry

#2. I was surprised to find out there was a direct line from my palm to my, my, hootchie.

Charlaine Harris

#3. Life is unrest, and its passage at best a zigzag course, that only straightens to a direct line when viewed across the years.

Elbert Hubbard

#4. We are deluded when we think that we do not have a direct line to heaven, that heaven doesn't stand ready to help us. Oh! If only you knew the angels that walk beside you, that support and protect you on the journey you've chosen to walk.

Toni Sorenson

#5. I do know that there are some things, though, that occur without a direct line of antecedents.

Jodi Picoult

#6. I don't have a direct line to hell to see if it's frozen over so I'm looking for flying pigs.

Eve Langlais

#7. I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.

Robert Dallek

#8. Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels.

Terry Taylor

#9. The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

Sam Rayburn

#10. For me, Twitter has given me a direct line to the world - it gave me an opportunity to be like, This is my voice.

Laura Benanti

#11. You have a direct line to Christ; He's waiting for your call. HS/el

Evinda Lepins

#12. Jesus works on Sunday, Hop. You want
a direct line, time to haul your biker ass to
church, I shared.

Kristen Ashley

#13. When the governing representatives of the people legalize the shedding of innocent blood (as a for-profit business, nonetheless) then they have placed themselves, and those they represent, in the direct line of God's judgment.

Tony Evans

#14. Leon Uris is a storyteller, in a direct line from those men who sat around fires in the days before history and made the tribe more human.

Pete Hamill

#15. I have a direct line with Obama. It's a crucial link. And I can put Spain in the spotlight.

James Costos

#16. When I began writing songs, there was a pretty direct line between what was happening in my life and what I wrote about. So my first album was really all about my failed attempts to make a particular relationship work.

Erin McKeown

#17. I think Twitter is such a cool thing because it really is a direct line to the fans and for fans back to you, and it's such a new thing. I think in the past there's been usually fan mail and that's really good, but Twitter, it gets an immediate response.

Alison Brie

#18. I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.

Carly Fiorina

#19. My father, good or bad, mistakes or no, had a direct line from his heart to the music to the people, to the audience. He played with logic and his own inner truth.

Arthur Rubinstein

#20. Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you disgrace are so many witnesses against you; and this grand display of their tarnished glory but serves to make your ignominy more evident.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#21. Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh ... he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.

A.S. Byatt

#22. Jesus works on Sundays, Hop. Want a direct line, time to haul your biker ass to church.

Kristen Ashley

#23. We could all use the power of prayer now and then, but it seems to me that the people who are sure they have a direct line to heaven are most often calling collect with bad news.

Mark Abramson

#24. There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan today.

John R. Allen

#25. Seamus walked a direct line to Frank and handed him the gun, backwards, with the barrel open.

Amy Vansant

#26. When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.

Bill Condon

#27. You have the sky overhead giving one light; then the reflected light from whatever reflects; then the direct light of the sun; so that, in the blending and suffusing of these several luminations, there is no such thing as a line to be seen anywhere.

Winslow Homer

#28. I would not like to direct, I would be one of those terrible directors who can't help line reading the actors their lines, because I would just want to be doing their parts.

Ruby Bentall

#29. I think it is kind of important to direct someone so the character is appealing, but, as an actress, I find it frustrating because I think, "Why do I have to be more likable than a man would have to be saying the same line?"

Romola Garai

#30. Meditation is like hearing a voice on the telephone: there might be slight delays if the line is not perfect, but it is otherwise direct and requires no effort other than listening

Sumangali Morhall

#31. I had traversed the line from doctor to patient, from actor to acted upon, from subject to direct object.

Paul Kalanithi

#32. Da was a real fisherman. But it wasn't the catch that mattered, it was the skill of the cast, the preparation of the flies. I often think my inability to prepare, my desire to get going, are a direct result of watching my father making all those painstaking preparations before he cast his line.

Terry Wogan

#33. This year I hope to introduce legislation that would require Power Administrations to list direct and indirect costs associated with ESA compliance as a line item on customer's power bills.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

#34. These secrets came down my own ornately curved and twisting family line. For family stories are never as direct as history books, and therefore they are more true.

Liz Rosenberg

#35. It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

Jane Austen

#36. The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

Constantin Stanislavski

#37. Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

Ogden Nash

#38. Drawing is the most direct and personal kind of graphic expression. Unlike painting, it doesn't forgive. You put down your black line, and there it is - as inevitable as death.

Tomi Ungerer

#39. If the enemy is the invading party, we can cut his line of communications and occupy the roads by which he will have to return; if we are the invaders, we may direct our attack against the sovereign himself.

Du Mu

#40. In direct navigation, users type exactly what they are looking for in the browser's web address field. This could be the exact domain name or web address. Millions of people do this, emphasizing the need for on- and off-line marketing and branding.

Marc Ostrofsky