Lines Quotes

If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

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

The rule I have when choosing films is the excitement factor, I need to feel excited about the story and whatever message the film has - only then do I sign on the dotted line.

A writing teacher once told me that the most successful movies and books were simple plots about complex characters. You should be able to articulate your concept in a couple of lines.

I have reached no conclusions, have erected no boundaries, shutting out and shutting in, separating inside from outside: I have drawn no lines

I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.

What is that unforgettable line?

At the end of the day, if you can't say a line right, it does not matter who your contacts are.

I watched 'A Chorus Line' over and over when I was growing up, to the point that I was able to recite the entire movie.

Bound together by our beliefs, we are like minded individuals, sharing a common vision, pushing toward a world rid of color lines.

There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that.

At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.

Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.

By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition.

The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.

You should know the lines, be prepared, get sleep, and have the script analyzed so you're ready to rock and roll.

I think of myself as a young prince from a long line of royalty.

I'm proud of being a vaudevillian, the last of my line. A lot of people think my entertainment is candy-floss. Well, entertainment is too aggressive these days, all 'in your face.'

In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.

Sometimes you have to put your balls on the line.

Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.

As a child, I loved being onstage. I loved singing, I loved the lights, I loved the adrenaline. I even loved learning lines. I was completely obsessive.

A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes— and by a stanza a city is blown to bits.

Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.

I've had times where I walked up to the line, where I know the play, but don't know what to do.

Don't be snarky, but don't be saccharine. Don't pander, but don't shut people out. Go straight down the line with the performance.

Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.

I spend hours mowing the lawn in absolutely straight lines on my tractor. If it's not right, I do it again.

We are all bumbling along,side by side, week in, week out, our paths similar in some ways and different in others, all apparently running parallel. But parallel lines never meet.

I was literally living on the edge of life, to the point where I didn't know what was going to happen, not caring, taking chances and finally landing in prison and once there, all my lines were cut.

Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

Reality is made up of circles but we see straight lines.

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line.

There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle.

Straight lines vary only in length, and therefore are least ornamental.

I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31.

Death is the only thing keeping us in line.

Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.

Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.

You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece.

I do what I do and hope that it might connect with people who are thinking along the same lines.

Lines have to smile. There have to be life, blood and heart in things you let go. They have to be human, warm and alive

First I have a think, and then I put a line around it.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Speaking of line, what artist of line was ever able to find more depth and volume than Hirschfeld? He was an illustrator and a caricaturist, but first and foremost, an artist.

I was lazy. I would have been a hell of a lot better actress had I taken it more seriously. I never had the proper respect for acting. Quite often, I learned my lines on the way to the studio.

If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.

Develop a clean line of action for your leading character

To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.