One Line Quotations

Seventy years of ad-lib material, and I am speechless.

He was bare chested and in good trim. I said that just looking at him I knew there would always be an England

I see the Beatles have arrived from England. They were 40 pounds overweight - and that was just their hair.

If I had that kind of money, I wouldn't come to Vietnam, I'd send for it.

Please don't stand up on my account.

It gave dirty politics a bad name.

I felt I wasn't getting anywhere in England.

A very, very religious man. Every time I eat a peanut, I feel immortal.

Dying is to be avoided because it can ruin your whole career.

I have this terrific make-up man. But he's expensive. I have to bring him in from Lourdes.

Lots of travel, away from home.

It flies so high, I swear I heard the organs playing.

I've got to watch myself these days. It's too exciting watching anyone else.

My folks were English. They were too poor to be British. I still have a bit of British in me. In fact, my blood type is solid marmalade.

I'm a comedian and there are a lot of things I'm still learning. I love one liners because I love smart jokes. I also don't like complaining about society or whining about my life on stage.

I think brilliant stuff comes out of working with limitations. One liners are very limiting, but that's what drew me to them in the first place.

H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.

I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?

Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you.

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

Beauty is all about form; proportions and the relationships between one line and another.

Prayer can do anything that God can do.

You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?

It doesn't matter whether it comes in by cable, telephone lines, computor, or satellite. Everyone's going to have to deal with Disney.

It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot.

One line plus one line results in many meanings.

A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.

Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself.

We mustn't forget we chose the name 'WWW' before there was even one line of code written. We could do that because the Internet as an infrastructure was already there.

God teaches us to love by putting some unlovely people around us.

i still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line...

Though you have changed a thousand times, He has not changed once.

The idea of being a character who is kind of isolated, I can relate to that.

If horses had controlled investment decisions, there would have been no auto industry.

He must never forget Charlie's plea: Tell me where I'm going to die, so I'll never go there.

There are certain things that cannot be adequately explained to a virgin either by words or pictures.