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I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime. -- Arthur Miller
Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present. -- Leslie Fiedler
Monofilament is what you use to go fishing. The line on your fishing rod is probably going to be black. You get to the end of the line and you tie on this clear plastic, thin thread called monofilament. -- John Badham
Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line. -- Jeremy Irons
A dream of life comes to me, like a catfish dancing on the end of the line. -- Bruce Springsteen
Achieving your vision doesn't mean you've reached the end of the line. It simply means that you've come to a new starting place. -- Nido R Qubein
I'm not a guy who likes cliches. I don't think that stereotypes and cliches are the end of the line, when it comes to a performance. -- Chris Bauer
Don't let despair mutate your flesh Look at my twisted stumps of thought See the fingers, listen to the voice I am slowly becoming the end of the line. -- Henry Rollins
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide. -- James A. Baldwin
By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line. -- Maureen Forrester
The Zionists are very much, very adventuresome, very much seeking to fabricate things, and I think they see themselves at the end of the line, and I do firmly believe that they seek to create new opportunities for themselves and their adventurous behaviors. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I used to smoke cigarettes, smoke dope, do smack, every f - - thing. First, I couldn't function without it. Then I couldn't do anything with or without it. Then I thought, "This is the end of the line for my fun days." -- Ozzy Osbourne
...while God has done his part in creating a world capable of providing what we need, we have not done our part in the stewardship of it, in seeing that it gets to the end of the line, to the poorest and neediest--the children. -- Wess Stafford
The philosophy of being able as a woman to decide what you want and being unashamed about making it happen was new. Most successful businessmen are in that role. 'No' is never perceived as the end of the line. 'No' just means picking a new avenue. -- Sharon Stone
No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story. -- Kevin Spacey
At the end of the day, if you can't say a line right, it does not matter who your contacts are. -- Steven Yeun
A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are. -- Phyllis Diller
Probably the worst pickup line is no pickup line. I mean, at the end of the day, what is the worst that could happen? -- Dawn Olivieri
Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work. -- Gale Anne Hurd
For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation. -- Ken Stott
Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous - but divorced. I'm always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line. -- Bear Grylls
Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to. -- James Fenton
I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January. -- Genevieve Gorder
I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line. -- Diana Gabaldon
The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not. -- Ernie Pyle
Children crave routine and find listening to the same stories over and over again soothing. If you've grown weary of the holiday books you've read your kid 7,883 times, try adding 'dude' to the end of every line of dialogue. -- Adam Mansbach
The world hates us, but the bottom line is we're gonna have to show the world why they hate us by bombing the hell out of some people that have been hurting us. That's all. That's the end of it. -- Jimmie Walker
I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there. -- Bob Seger
The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it has to do with tone because tone is the key signature for the poem. The basis of trust for a reader used to be meter and end-rhyme. -- Billy Collins
I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin. -- John Irving
I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot. -- Aimee Bender
The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end. -- St. Jerome
Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first. -- Jerry Coleman
Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line. -- John Tillotson
It's making a statement about what life is, really. And I'm going to end the line with it. -- Wayne Shorter
Don't you expect a rainbow coming out of the tub of bacon strips at the end of the buffet line? -- Jim Gaffigan
Here's what I really love: I love a funny story that I can tag a serious line on the end of. -- Max Lucado
You don't make peace with your friends. That's the bottom line. You end conflicts by trying to find some political resolution. -- Hillary Clinton
I am Emperor, my descendants will be numerous. From the second generation to the ten thousandth, my line will not end. -- Qin Shi Huang
You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that. -- Abe Burrows
There's a thread that binds all of us together; pull one end of the thread, the strain is felt all down the line. -- Rosamond Marshall
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there. -- Robert Altman
On other shows when they get to the end of the scene, they yell 'Cut!' On Whose Line, we yell 'That's Enough!' -- Drew Carey
Film-making is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work. -- Gale Anne Hurd
I can't move my body slowly. I can't move the line slowly. So I end up with way too much, often opaque to me later. -- Martha Ronk
You can see the latest dumbness as just the end of a long line of dumbnesses that have been taking place for thousands of years. -- J. B. Handelsman
Sure, this will probably end up being another in a long line of emotionally crippling misadventures...but let's try to have some fun along the way. -- Brian K. Vaughan
I can't do the whole run but I am able to start the race and I will be there at the end when winners cross the line. -- Fabrice Muamba
In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I have to draw the line. -- Michael Pollan
I hate arrows. They try to tell me which direction to go. It's like "I ain't going that way, line with two thirds of a triangle on the end!" -- Mitch Hedberg

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