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I remember going to Bob Preston's dressing room because I was losing a laugh - as you do in a long run. He said, 'Give me the script. That's where you're going off the road.' That's comedy. It's never the line itself; it's in the foundation.
He who improvises can never make a perfect line of poetry.
Dear Friend, Just a line to show that I am alive & kicking and going grand. It's a treat.
The greatest thing about being a writer is the fact you never have to learn lines - you get to write them!
If you don't believe in a line, then you come off as the loser.
Because if I don't know my lines, I really don't know what I'm doing.
Pickup line ... pickup line ... she racked her brain until she found an explanation and brightened. Mine would be - roses are red, violets are blue, if you don't do what I say I will kill you.
A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.
I'm just a notch on your bedpost but you're just a line in a song.
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.
The joke is, we all have the same punchline.
Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way.
I start with the joke line and write backward.
One line lands in a word and one word
lands in a line and
there you have it the secret of poetry
The line comes before meaning.
What is your one-sentence job description?
Hold your horses. I'm coming." ...
"From where I'm standing you're just breathing laboriously."
The snow swam out of focus. "Breathing hard. Are you coming or just breathing hard. You've got to get your one-liners straight.
It can be a simple sentence that makes one single point and you build for that. You zero in on one moment that gets that character, you go for it, that's it, man, and if you fail the whole thing is down the drain, but if you make it you hit the moon.
A guy walks into a wedding reception. He goes up to the bartender and asks, "Is this the punch line?
I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line ...
If I write something down, it's normally just a sharp one-liner.
Count on big lines to express your ideas.
Lines don't make a beautiful woman less beautiful.
When they came to you for your line, you had to be ready and you had to get it in one.
I have too much to lose, she said, if I cross that line. Like what? I said. She could not think of anything that day so she said she'd get back to me. Since then I've been thinking what I would lose if I cross my line & I haven't come up with anything either. There's always another line somewhere.
Every one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand is like every other one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand because the sex in a one-night-stand is without time and only time allows value.
Writers are nothing but beggars with a good line.
Has that line ever worked for anyone?"
"I'm not feeding you lines. I mean every word."
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"Day One of my life was the day I met you."
"Okay, that's a winner. You can put it in.
Only a single line is needed to discover who is doing what.
I came in the door, I said it before
I never let the mic magnetize me no more.
But it's biting me, fighting me, inviting me to rhyme,
I can't hold it back ... I'm looking for the line.
Taking off my coat, clearing my throat,
My rhyme will be kicking until I hit my last note.
A line is a dot that went for a walk.
The best sentence? The shortest.
tersely. Then the line
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.
I understand your new play is full of single entendres.
Elise smiled. "I don't need a line. I just need one."
"Well, I need a line," Celeste said
When I'm constructing a poem, I'm trying to write one good line after another. One solid line after another. You know a lot of the lines - some hold up better as lines than others. But I'm not thinking of just writing a paragraph and then chopping it up.
Relax, Xander. It's only two lines."
He closed his eyes and leaned into her, his arms wrapping her back. "But it's still lines in a real film, and if I mess it up-"
"They'll have you do it again. And again... and again." Liv laughed. "No big deal. Life is full of second chances.
Wonderful", the Flatline said, "I never did like to do anything simple when I could do it ass-backwards.
I always know my lines.
It's not you. The stupidest line in the history of lines.
To come up with one great sentence, one needs to serve a life sentence.
If you try to deliver a funny line in a funny way, it comes out as wacky and you ruin the scene.
Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.
I can walk the line, if it ain't too straight.
Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme ... they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.
Things we say in one line generally can't be explained by us even in hundreds.
If you forget your lines, you had better mumble with conviction.
Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
Sometimes, as a comedian, a line will come to you, that is so beautiful, so perfect, that you think: I did not create this line. This line belongs to all of us. Surely this is a line of God.
Ah, God. Brain freeze!" Trey yelled and covered his eye with his free hand. "Fuck. Why does that hurt so bad?"
Reagan laughed at him. "Suck it more slowly next time," she advised.
He had fifteen lines he could have used at that moment.
I don't like straight lines: men make them.
Unless there is a new mind there cannot be a new line, the old will go on repeating itself with recurring deadliness
Are you in a suit?' I managed at last, my voice choking up. 'You didn't have to dress up for me.'
'Quiet, Sage,' he said. 'I'll make the hilarious one-liners during this daring rescue.
The best lines always comes out when it is not in the script. Its like when one writes - each word forming sense in a sentence dies to make its purpose alive within you.
You have a steady fella?" Sam asked after a bit.
"No fella can hold me for long."
Sam gave her a sideways glance. "That a challenge?"
"No. A statement of fact.
The reason that people say one line at junkets is that they've heard the same question 37 times. You get bored out of your mind.
One of the attractions of translating 'Heroes' is that it's not the kind of play that I write. If it had been, I probably wouldn't have wanted to translate it. There are no one-liners. It's much more a truthful comedy than a play of dazzling wit.
What if I mess up?"
"Oh, you will. You'll mess up, you'll make mistakes, you'll break things. Some you'll be able to piece together, and others you'll lose. That's all a given. But there's only one thing you have to do for me."
"What's that?"
"Stay alive long enough to mess up again.
I need to get in line,' I said.
'Should I walk up with you?'
'No,' I said, 'because we'll start this routine all over.'
'What if I want to?'
'I'd like that,' I said. 'But don't.
Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.
I just try to remember my lines most of the time.
You think, you don't just speak. The lines come off the thoughts.
Improv plays such a huge role in finding great lines - you'll be surprised at what comes out of your mind inadvertently. A lot of times it's better than a script you've worked out ahead of time.
Four lines, and the world went quiet.
I'm sorry for telling everyone about your mum, read the first line.
I miss being your friend, read the second.
Are you okay? read the third.
I see you, read the fourth, with the I underlined about a hundred times.
I have no line. If I think it's funny, it's funny.
Can you repeat that pickup line for me?"
I heard one of the vamps ask.
"I want to write it down. Something about the usual?
I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
Sometimes you do know, in 'Commando' when I said 'I lied', I knew that it was going to be a funny line. I've never had a bad line.
I felt a warm hand on the skin of my lower back."
I twisted my neck, looked up and there he was.
I held my breath and he asked, "You comin' or what?"
That was it. That was his pickup line. "You comin' or what?"
I went.
If time is a line, it is a special one.
So I just play the character, I play the lines.
Read between the lines and free your mind
I think that you can say something in one line with a look that you might need three lines on a page for normally.
How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.
One single letter cures the blank page.
I have hundreds of Word documents filled with pages of one-liners. If I begin to write a story, or if one of my thoughts leads to more than a couple paragraphs of writing, I'll go into these documents and pull out lines that I think would work with it.
People ask me, 'How do you remember your lines?' That's nothing. That is the least of my concerns.
Do I know my lines? As I'm getting older, they're getting harder to learn. The old brain cells are deteriorating.
A line, a short line, stumbles off into the morning. Thirty two men.
she read on; but every line proved
Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!
A line comes into being. It goes out for a walk, so to speak, aimlessly for the sake of the walk.
There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.
I'm a man of few words, most of them end in off!
If you are just one girl, I am just one boy." Shahrzad
Eventually you will get into the habit of enjoying line as a language all of its own.
New Rule: Any tattoo that has more than one line is too long.
This is one image. This is one moment. This is one statement. ARTPOP
I can hold you up with one hand, but you can balance me on your fingertips.
The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from everyday speech and prose.
I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.
Lineation can make your break your poems.
Someone once asked, 'What's your best pickup line?' I said, 'My best pickup line is, 'Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.'
Now, where were we? Read me back the last line." " 'Read me back the last line,' " read back the corporal who could take shorthand.
Shooting hell out of a piece of cardboard doesn't prove anything' was his single-line introduction to the Small-arms Defence Manual.
A leg?" repeated Detective Inspector Eric Wardle on the end of the line. "A fucking leg?"
"And it's not even my size," said Strike, a joke he would not have made had Robin been present.
Lines are for people who are sad and pathetic. Let's just fuck.
You are in every line I have ever read.
Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.