Lines Quotes

A lot of lines in movies were written, but I'm always improvising. Once you get into the scene, it just comes to me.

TV spots are short. If you can't hold folks' attention for 20 seconds before revealing the brand, find another line of work.

I've never been the kind of actress that just likes to show up and say my lines. I'm fascinated by what the crew does.

Life is the only race you'll run where you don't know where the finish line is.

The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.

I can be a bit of an overachiever and always dance that line of balance between giving myself to work versus giving time to myself and loved ones.

As far as I'm concerned, there is no line between high art and pop art, and there should be no line.

The monster licked his lips, long lines of whiskers twitching, and spoke in a deep growl. "Pretty, aren't I?" Curran. In midform. I broke from his gaze. "Adorable.

This I can report from the front lines: life never calms down long enough for us to wait until tomorrow to start living the lives we deserve.

The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

I have forgiven all the old actors for dying. A new one comes on with the same lines, like large white growths, in his mouth. The dancers come on from the wings, perfectly mated.

Here's the real thing. Democrats got to understand that the first line in the Republican playbook is going to be smear, you know? And there's nobody who's going to be able to avoid it.

No leadership, no ideas. Not even enough imagination to thump someone in the line-up when the ref wasn't looking.

I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.

f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!

The alternation of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

I would love to have my own lingerie line.

Insecurity is miserable. That's the bottom line. We don't need it. We don't want it. And we really can live without it. So what would happen if we quite being accomplices in our own misery?

Many of my personal enemies picture me as a cold type - a person who acts according to a certain line, a calculating type.

We don't often have the luxury of time [in Steve Jobs movie ]to have these conversations where you just literally get to sit around for day and days and analyze every line of dialogue.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God's Word.

It’s making a statement about what life is, really. And I’m going to end the line with it.

If I was on a third or fourth line I would probably be in the NHL, because you don't have to produce every night.

I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.

Don't you expect a rainbow coming out of the tub of bacon strips at the end of the buffet line?

My attraction had been immediate and profound. And it had nothing to do with the way he looked. My attraction was to what resided between his lines.

If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.

The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.

By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.

I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers.

But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor blemishes,Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards

I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.

Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault.

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist.

I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.

But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.

All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I've been and how I got to where I am.

I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.

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.

Bottom line: If you love yourself, it will all work out.

Unless there is a new mind there cannot be a new line, the old will go on repeating itself with recurring deadliness

Python is executable pseudocode. Perl is executable line noise.

It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!

The people in the front lines are my customers. I need to keep them happy. And, the best way to take care of your customers is to take care of your workers.

I'm attacking the basket more. Because I'm more comfortable on the line, that's an area I want to get to.

The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.

I always know my lines.

If I ended my career, I wouldn't mind doing a TV series if it was a western and I played a mute gunfighter so I wouldn't have to remember lines every week.

Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.