Top 98 Single Line Quotes
#1. The man who could withstand, with his fellow-men in single line, a charge of cavalry may lose all command of himself on the occurrence of a fire in his own house, because of some homely reminiscence unknown to the observing bystander.
Arthur Helps
#2. Einstein would be one of the greatest theoretical physicists of all time even if he had not written a single line on relativity.
Max Born
#3. Do you know that if you take the books in an average school library and stretched out all those words into a single line, the line would go all the way around the world? Actually, I made that up, but doesn't it sound like it should be true?
Neal Shusterman
#4. Shooting hell out of a piece of cardboard doesn't prove anything' was his single-line introduction to the Small-arms Defence Manual.
Ian Fleming
#5. The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development
C.S. Lewis
#6. What Jacob and Monod had discovered, in essence, was that each gene acts like a single line in a computer program.
Gary F. Marcus
#8. Every single line that you write, you hang on every single word, and you hang on every single moment.
Green Day
#9. It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#10. twelve and thirty. Because only a single line is written about that long stretch of time, those years are called his "Hidden Life.
James Martin
#11. I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.
James Fenton
#12. A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.
Immanuel Kant
#13. I just want people to remember me a hundred years from now. I don't care that they're not able to quote any single line that I've written. But just that they can say, "Oh, he was a writer." That's sufficiently an honored position for me.
Rod Serling
#14. There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial ... Yes: throughout these pages I meant what I was writing and I meant the opposite; reading them again I feel completely lost ... I was lying to myself. How I lied to myself!
Simone De Beauvoir
#15. I guess if I was made responsible for every single line of dialogue in a game and every single piece of textual visual detail, every sign or piece of graffiti, then yes, I think that would be comparable to the time and effort required to write a very long novel, indeed.
Richard K. Morgan
#16. A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy barbell.
W.C. Fields
#17. To some degree. I think that I've always been very much of a chordal person. The chords are the foundation of everything. Some of Yes' stuff is very linear, albeit complex, but it's single-line melodic stuff. So I kind of had to wear a different cap working with Yes. It's not so much chord-based.
Geoff Downes
#18. I saw 'Clueless' probably when I was about 8 or 9 years old. And, I had certain films that I would fall asleep so it was 'Clueless' for quite a long time, and I used to just watch it every single night and knew every single line, every single quote.
Saoirse Ronan
#19. I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a single line of the book yet. I had no idea how this man knew anything about my book proposal.
Laura Hillenbrand
#20. You only spoke a single line,
yet it felt like a life sentence.
Timothy Joshua
#21. The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.
George Santayana
#22. Every single line, every single thing has to be fought over. There's kind of like an intrinsic doubt from absolutely everyone in my crew, my producer, everyone. It's not just the film industry - it's a worldwide thing. It's the culture of the world to doubt women.
Patricia Riggen
#23. Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.
Lewis Mumford
#24. That's it - hundreds of texts and conversations, thousands upon thousands of words spoken and sent, all boiled down into a single line. is that what relationships become?
David Levithan
#25. I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
Pat Conroy
#26. I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.
Claire Foy
#27. Only a single line is needed to discover who is doing what.
Paul Reps
#28. Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the apparently disparate designs of the invertebrates and vertebrates.
Stephen Jay Gould
#29. Every single line on the Oscar show is negotiated. Unless you've been there, you have no idea how it is put together. It's like nothing else on earth. I'm writing a book about it, but I have to throw in my sexual escapades to make sure it sells.
Bruce Vilanch
#30. The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final one in the shape of the letter U. I love you.
Lurlene McDaniel
#31. There is a different beauty in simplicity, in a single line placed just so, a single flower among the rocks. The harshness of the stone makes the flower more precious.
Robert Jordan
#32. Socrates (770-399 B.C.[E.]) is possibly the most enigmatic figure in the entire history of philosophy. He never wrote a single line. Yet he is one of the philosophers who has had the greatest influence on European thought, not least because of the dramatic manner of his death.
Jostein Gaarder
#33. Life is not worth a single line of Baudelaire."
-from "The Life of a Stupid Man
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
#34. It was a single line amid a wall of hate. It barely made a difference.
But it was a start - and that was all that mattered.
Cole Gibsen
#35. Tell your idea to whomever will listen, and you'll get valuable market feedback before writing a single line of code.
Aaron Patzer
#36. I am getting quite uneasy about him, though why I should I do not know, but I do wish that he would write, if it were only a single line
Bram Stoker
#37. Am I suggesting 100% test coverage? No, I'm not suggesting it. I'm demanding it. Every single line of code that you write should be tested. Period.
Robert C. Martin
#38. To initiate the debugger, all you have to do is import the pdb built-in module and run its set_trace function. You'll often see this done in a single line so programmers can comment it out with a single # character.
Brett Slatkin
#39. Sometimes writing a single line is enough to save your own heart.
Clarice Lispector
#40. If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line.
Baby Halder
#41. Nothing can be truly replicated. Not a love, not a jewel, not a single line.
Patti Smith
#42. If you ask who I aspire to, well, if a single line of mine was as funny as P. G. Wodehouse can be, that would be great.
Nick Harkaway
#43. Suddenly a single shot on the extreme left rang out on the clear morning air, followed quickly by several others, and the whole line pushed rapidly forward through the brush.
John Gibbon
#44. Every single athlete or soldier for participation? Should we all line
Rick Riordan
#45. In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower?
Warren Hutcherson
#46. The word begone is a Russian doll. A small, single word, which contains so many others; and when all the smaller words inside line up, they look like a bridge: Be Beg Ego Go On One.
Craig Stone
#47. A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.
Gary Saul Morson
#48. The 3.5 billion unreached people on earth would form a single file line that would stretch around the equator 25 times! Can you picture 25 lines of Christless people, trampling endlessly toward hell? Let that vision stay with you day and night.
Larry Stockstill
#49. The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
#50. If you consider that a single straight line can be drawn between any two points, one day I'm going to draw a line from him to me or me to him.
Delphine De Vigan
#51. Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but "safe" isn't one of them.
Mandy Hale
#52. This was a report from a single source. It was an established and reliable line of reporting. It was quoted from a senior Iraqi military officer in a position to know this information.
John Scarlett
#53. His eyebrows arched under a single, pensive line and his eyes themselves were imprinted with deep sadness, behind which from time to time could be seen dark flashes of misanthropy and hatred.
Alexandre Dumas
#54. On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains a single moving electron.
Pieter Zeeman
#55. The page contained a single, unfamiliar symbol. It looked like a backward S with the diagonals of an open triangle cutting through it. A straight line bisected both shapes. Could be creepy. Could be nothing.
Erin Kellison
#56. My works were not - and they still aren't - single panel gags with a punch line underneath them. I like a lot of those cartoons; I just don't draw them.
Roz Chast
#57. Certainly with The Crucible, what I love is that every role in that is so crucial.But there's something almost comic. I remember there's that line where she says, "I am 18 and a woman, however single," which killed me every time!
Winona Ryder
#58. Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.
Barack Obama
#59. Home is the bottom line of life, the anvil upon which attitudes and convictions are hammered out the single most influential force in our earthly existence. No price tag can adequately reflect its value.
Charles R. Swindoll
#60. She was about the single nicest human being he'd ever met, but she'd kill anybody she considered a bad man faster than a farmwife would wring the neck of a chicken. With Faye, once you crossed a certain line, your life was worth nothing.
Larry Correia
#61. The bottom line is, if every single platinum song right now wasn't auto-tuned, then I would be like, "I can't be a rapper."
Spencer Pratt
#62. the pace at which Sean Connery speaks stems from a decision he's made. And every single vowel delivered is with respect for the language. But he delivers it so naturally and with so much humanity that you don't realize that, technically, he is giving a master class in how to deliver a line.
Ron Perlman
#63. Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?
Stephen King
#64. They were all in line, single file, like an armada from hell. It was a magnificent sight.
Lee Child
#65. There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.
Diane Setterfield
#66. Man's life must be a straight line of motion from goal to farther goal, each leading to the next and to a single growing sum, like a journey ...
Ayn Rand
#67. Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them.
Ernst Toller
#68. What children
and the landing of a plane
most have in common
is that they are best made
by a line drive of pilot lights guided
through a single tambourine
across the day we met
in a field of wet metal hands on The Gospel of Lightning.
Buddy Wakefield
#69. A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.
Desi Arnaz
#70. If there's a single message passed down from each generation of American parents to their children, it is a two-word line: Better Yourself. And if there's a temple of self-betterment in each town, it is the local school. We have worshipped there for some time.
Ellen Goodman
#71. The stories we love may not always fit neatly into a single time line, but they will always matter.
John Jackson Miller
#73. There was a single blue line of crayon drawn across every wall in the house. What does it mean? I asked. A pirate needs the sight of the sea, he said and then he pulled his eye patch down and turned and sailed away.
Brian Andreas
#74. That line again. For Ian, a joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hands like a cheap umbrella.
David Nicholls
#75. Randy stared into the glass he held in his hand, gazing into its cobra eyes. A double shot of thirty-year-old single malt whisky. You can't be an alcoholic when you only drink top shelf. Right?
Ted Magnuson
#76. Law officials put their lives on the line every single day for us, and I think we also owe them a degree of respect.
Benjamin Carson
#77. It is not proper for man's life to be a circle, she thought, or a string of circles dropping off like zeros behind him - man's life must be a straight line of motion from goal to farther goal, each leading to the next and to a single growing sum.
Ayn Rand
#78. There's no finish line. That's a big pill for people to swallow, Every single day for the rest of your life, you are going to have to make better food choices, and move around a bit more.
Bob Harper
#79. God really must have had a sense of humor, because if I had to name my biggest turn-on, it was literature. And he had just recommended a book that I didn't know, that wasn't taught in school. If I were single, there would be no better pick-up line.
Kody Keplinger
#80. As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned to any single individual, the less skill it requires, and the less likely the possibility that doing it well will lead to doing something more interesting and better paid.
Jill Lepore
#81. If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.
Henry Rollins
#82. I hated meeting people at bars when I was single because it's all about the looks and the funny line.
Sam Yagan
#83. The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line
Jorge Luis Borges
#84. the line between hunter and hunted can be as small as a single moment of unreadiness.
J.A. McLachlan
#85. Just like a spider with a line of silk! Did you ever see them throw themselves out into space to weave? They're taking a chance, every single time. They got to do it or else they'd never create anything. But I bet it don't feel good, even to a spider.
Olivia Goldsmith
#86. His single-minded purpose. His unending fury.
Stephen King
#87. To be sure, ASPM isn't the gene responsible for building big brains - there's no such single gene. But it's critical to the process, and the primate line has almost certainly benefited from distinct changes in ASPM.
Sam Kean
#88. The chief characteristics of the tall building is that it is lofty. It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation so that from bottom to top it should be a unit without a single dissenting line.
Louis Sullivan
#89. When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that ... the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.
Elbert Hubbard
#90. I suppose you want me to give certificates to all the contestants? Little plastic trophies to every single athlete or soldier for participation? Should we all line up and shake hands and tell each other, Good game? No!
Rick Riordan
#91. The leaders of globalization ... have tied themselves to a single measurement by which they judge success and failure ... They only measure money and the bottom line.
Anita Roddick
#92. The bottom line is this - whereas Iran was steadily expanding its nuclear program, we have now cut off every single path that Iran could have used to build a bomb.
Barack Obama
#93. Iggy Pop looks right at me as he sings the line: 'America takes drugs in psychic defence'; only he changes 'America' to 'Scatlin', and defines us mair accurately in a single sentence than all the others have ever done.
Irvine Welsh
#94. Lila stretches the hem of her tank top over her hips as she moves toward me. When she sits, it's with her thigh melting against mine. Her heat radiates past my jeans to my skin. Every single cell within my body sizzles to life. Play this right, Lincoln. She deserves a man, not a boy.
Katie McGarry
#95. My father fought in World War I and single-handedly destroyed the Germans' line of communication. He ate their pigeon.
Frank Carson
#96. If you're truly open, you'll put every single thing you think is true on the line. And in doing so, you live in questions, not answers.
Gail Brenner
#97. My hope is that, factual or fabricated, every line in Tsarina leads to a single truth: that when you forget that those you disagree with are people, not just your faceless opposition, you don't end up proving who is right and who is wrong. You end up with a body count.
J. Nelle Patrick
#98. Photography is about a single point of a moment. It's like stopping time. As everything gets condensed in that forced instant. But if you keep creating these points, they form a line which reflects your life.
Nobuyoshi Araki
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