Lines Quotes

The bottom line is, if somebody doesn't go through proper security screening, they're not going to go on the flight.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens.

Such a muddy line between the things you want/And the things you have to do.

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.

I don't believe in pick-up lines because I've always been very comfortable in my own skin.

You know the bodysuit that I built my line on? . . .That was about me being able to go directly from work to yoga class. It just wasn't as accepted to talk about then.

Don't hoo, hoo, hoo me. There's a fine line between hoo, hoo, hoo and hiel, hiel, hiel.

The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth.

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.

Draw lines - draw a lot of lines

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

This is the line of life, this is the line of growth, and this is the line of well-being in India - to follow the track of religion.

Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight lines.

The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see.

If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.

Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.

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

Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels.

Here is the start, there is the finish line. Between that, you have to run.

Don't foul, don't flinch-hit the line hard.

...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

I would say 95% of the time, because you just can't remember your lines if you're drinking alcohol. I would say about 95% of the time it was grape juice or this fake wine, which was horrible.

It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his job on the line.

Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.

With a nation at war against terrorism and our men and women on the front line defending our homeland from abroad, resources need to be prioritized and allocated properly.

Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines.

Sets of lines can say something about the direction and nature of the light. They are used by great fresco painters as a sign for shade.

What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?

Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.

Writing the opening lines of a story is a bit like starting to ski at the steepest part of a hill. You must have all your skills under control from the first instant.

I would have had a clause in my contract; I would've definitely put some fine print in my contract that said, "If the president leaves, I'm leaving." That'd be the bottom line.

We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images.

Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements.

The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.

The movement of the emitters of the spectral lines may be deduced on the basis of the Doppler principle.

We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them.

The biggest problem is our lack of "response-ability." That’s what happens when money rather than love is the bottom line. People act like idiots.

We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line.

The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.

The bottom line in love is not whether someone loves you, but whether someone chooses you.

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

You don't need a pickup line. Just glance at a woman from across the room. Glance - don't stare.

Bottom Line: It's better to give before you receive. And never keep score. If your interactions are ruled by generosity, your rewards will follow suit.

I just think that pick-up lines in general are horrible. None of them work.

Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines.

As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with...

I think what we should concentrate on is what it feels like to be a working artist in the day to day. One doesn't imagine what comes down the line.