Lines Quotes

When you get above the line, you're above the line. So my thing is I just want to make music where I am always above that line.

I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.

An opportunity to honor the legacy of the lives drawn into the lines in my face, the broad of my nose, the dark of my eyes, the fullness of my lips, and coal in my complexion.

Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.

It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.

We're coming off a quarter here that was in-line with our expectations, but much lower at WPZ due to Geismar's extended outage and a continued heavy capital investing period all as was expected.

The poet lives as long as his lines are imprinted on the minds of his readers.

I have a problem to do a collection that is a secondary line. I mean, you don’t want to be the stepsister. You want to be Cinderella. Show me one girl who wants to be the stepsister.

Justice to others and to ourselves is the same; that we cannot define our duties by mathematical lines ruled by the square, but must fill with them the great circle traced by the compasses

Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.

I can never say a line someone else has given me, which is why script meetings on TV shows always go terribly for me.

Hidden in a long text, there are perhaps three lines that count.

I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.

Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.

What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

Anybody who cares about the functioning of democracy should be concerned about the blurring of lines between public and private interests.

The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.

I think what's difficult is proving to people that a script actually does work and sometimes the laughter might not be on the page, it might be between the lines.

I feel like I walk a very fine line between wanting someone to be open and vulnerable and honest with me and the listeners, but not wanting anyone to ever feel like I'm exploiting them.

I really want readers to put themselves into the shoes of each character. So the opening lines are an orienting technique: this is where you are, this is who you are. Go.

I'm actively looking at pilots in the very limited pilot season that is about to begin. Lots of work for my clothing line which is extremely exciting.

I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.

MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.

Science only answers 'How?' Religion only answers 'Why?' The two combined is the true design, So respect to God cause He drew the lines.

In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.

I watched The Muppet Movie obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a pretty mean Fozzie Bear.

I'm usually sort of ambiguous in terms of whether I'm playing a good person or a bad person. I can walk that line of funny but also dark, and I'm happy doing that.

To understand Vers libre, one must abandon all desire to find in it the even rhythm of metrical feet. One must allow the lines to flow as they will when read aloud by an intelligent reader.

We have to agree beforehand to divide the funniest lines between us. But Tina [Fey] is so brilliant that I just love every moment working with her and also just hanging out together as friends.

I need a costume to be convinced that I'm somebody else. Otherwise, it's just me. It's just Amy saying lines. I haven't really become somebody else. And what's the fun in that?

I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.

Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.

I don't approach my acting as just saying a few lines and then going off-screen. It's a craft. I really invest in trying to make it a craft.

My memory about names and places now is dreadful. But lines, I can remember.

I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.

and I try to draw the line but it ends up running down the middle of me most of the time.

If you think you know what I'm doing wrong well you're gonna have to get in line.

We actors can't say every line as if it has weight, but what we want to do is be true to the meaning of each line, whatever it is. Even the lines that are throwaway may come back later.

the leaders of globalization ... have tied themselves to a single measurement by which they judge success and failure ... They only measure money and the bottom line.

My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.

This week's winner for best comedy line about the war is New York Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer. Referring to - well, it doesn't really matter what he was referring to.

Sure, I’m gray-shading the line that separates stable and crazy, but the point is, there is a line. And I haven’t completely crossed over to lunatic.

If you don't believe in a line, then you come off as the loser.

I don't do research for my novels. Obviously, in my other line of work as a reporter and a columnist, I've had the opportunity to get to know both social workers and TV talk-show hosts.

I put myself on the line with my truth and my sexuality. That is my choice. My choice

One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.

I look in the mirror and I see the lines, but I don't care. It's a good time. I don't know why it's such a good time, but it's a good time.

I did my first movie, "The Mambo Kings," in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director.

Im always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. Thats how I roll.