Lines Quotes

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?

Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.

Somewhere along the line I'll be recognized as one of the top players in the Nicklaus era. That's all I want to be remembered for.

The line is a whole, an identity, for a particular place and time.

White lines in movement symbolize a unifying idea which flows through the compartmented units of life bringing the consciousness of a larger relativity.

Revenge is never a straight line.

The first thing I did [in Michigan] was join a picket line of a pizzeria in Ann Harbor in 1963 that didn't allow African Americans to eat there.

Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can't remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy.

In choosing joy, the finish line dissolves into a different matter altogether.

Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.

There is no color line in art.

I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is.

It was as if I had worked for years on the wrong side of a tapestry, learning accurately all its lines and figures, yet always missing its color and sheen.

At a certain point you stop looking at your features, at what you don't look like. You start looking at lines and signs of fatigue rather than at the shape of your mouth.

When I die, they might as well bury me at the finish line at Churchill Downs so they can run over me one more time.

My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.

I'm not single, I'm busy. That's my line.

My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.

If the 'self-life' is supreme, Satan does not have to be invited in. The lines are already set for the 'electric' current to flow. Satan is master of ceremonies, though he be apparently non-existent.

For me, as for so many runners, there really are no finish lines. Runs end; running doesn't.

Pray to God and say the lines.

When you cross the line and you've won the race, to me, it's an amazing feeling.

For everyone who thought I couldn’t do it… for everyone who thought I shouldn’t do it… for everyone who said, ‘It’s impossible’… see you at the finish line!

In nature there are few sharp lines

There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.

I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.

I notice faint scars on her wrists and forearms, thin lines too symmetrical to be accidents.

My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

All lines of play which lead to the imprisonment of the bishop are on principle to be condemned.

When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision.

The Pashtuns in particular are kind of trapped. They've never accepted the Durand Line nor has any Afghan government historically accepted it.

I believe in serendipity, but I also believe there are times when you have to be the one who lines up everything so it can fall into place.

There's no black and white dividing line between a mild Aspergers, which is the mild autism, and computer engineer, for example.

There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war.

Sculpture is a series of 3-dimensional shapes which, while fitting together, cause the perception of lines to the viewer, even where they do not exist.

All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.

When little old ladies recognize a guy who was Mr. Olympia, that's saying something. That means I've been able to cross lines as far as marketability is concerned.

No one really understands the grief or joy of another. We always imagine that we are approaching some other, but our lines of travel are actually parallel.

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.

When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?

Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.

[In acting] I like the fight scenes because you don't have to remember lines.

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.

There's a thin line between destruction and creation.

Stand-up is just me trying to be as funny as possible in the most concentrated hour with me standing on stage with no storyline, no plot line, and no character development.

The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.

I'm not like a super duper sneaker head. I got a couple pairs, but I'm not a "stand in line for sneakers" type of dude.

Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk.

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

You can't give up until the finish line, that's something I've learned.