Lines Quotes

I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.

His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.

In legislation we all do a lot of swapping tobacco across the lines.

As far as escaping and making plays, I have a lot of faith in our line.

There are lines upon my face from a lifetime of smiles

The opening line from a journal can be the beginning of a song.

Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation.

There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

With all the lines I have to learn for TV scripts, I don't think I have any problems with forgetfulness - that's brain exercise enough for me.

There's a through line that connects all of us.

One of the funniest lines in my show was written for me by Alan Bursky. I really want to learn this routine!

Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.

Just when everything seems to go along just fine, Life comes by and throws you its line.

What would they say if they knew I sit for two months on six lines of poetry?

never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.

As an actress, I'm supposed to create something from head to toes, with clues, with lines, with shapes, and even with that power, I felt lost and not in control.

The bottom line: Earth is not mediocre.

The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling.

I did go through a period where I was on unemployment. That was my low point: Martha Quinn on line at unemployment, hoping nobody will recognize her.

There is a line between a definite maybe and an indefinite yes.

I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual.

A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive assembly line. They were cranking out 10 songs a day in that studio, or more.

I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.

I learn the lines that JK Rowling or whoever writes them, and say them.

There should be a separate line to scrutinize anybody with the name Abdul or Ahmed or Mohammed.

I still think punk's around. It's been pushed into the mainstream and it gets harder to draw that line between what's pop and what's punk.

Some people perceive Skinner to be complex. I just basically was trying to remember my lines, so I guess that's what they perceive as being complexity.

It is security that I crave and money provides security. What is that old line about money? "Some is good, more is better and too much is just right."

What intrigues us as a problem, and what will satisfy us as a solution, will depend upon the line we draw between what is already clear and what needs to be clarified.

As soon as you Botox your smile lines away, you lose part of your identity.

My only phobia is untidiness. My hair has to be neatly kept; my shoes are always clean. Everything has to be in a straight line, in its place.

The old line 'You deserve someone better than me' in this case was not just an old line. She deserved someone who would love her and take care of her and he knew he never would.

Beyond 100,000 lines of code, you should probably be coding in Ada.

I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

The line comes before meaning.

Do I know my lines? As I'm getting older, they're getting harder to learn. The old brain cells are deteriorating.

I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice.

There is a fine line between stubborn and stupid.

True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.

The fence and the boundary line are the symbols of the spirit of justice. They set the limits upon each man's interest to prevent one from taking advantage of the other.

That's what you do when the curtain is falling--you give the line that the audience wants to hear.

There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.

Infinite trust is what you are. It describes everything in the reality where you can feel your whole being. In that line between here and infinity, everything is contained.

Earning money is not a sin, and the bottom line is growth.

A polarizing mission statement forces the reader to choose between two sides of a line drawn in the sand. Rare is the business owner who has the courage to craft such a statement.

My bottom line is that I think Ridley Scott is one of the greatest visual artists of our time and I feel very privileged that he wants to work with me, so I go with that flow.

You can adhere to your faith, but that faith needs to march in line with the rest of the world and needs to find a way of expressing itself in the modern world.