Lines Quotes

That [film What's My Line] was very useful to me because it had Branch Rickey in a social situation. Every other bit of film [42] that I had was him making a speech.

An actors most important responsibility is to know lines well.

Her voice was like a line from an old black-and-white Jean-Luc Godard movie, filtering in just beyond the frame of my consciousness.

As you're learning your lines and the character you're playing, you're going to make mistakes but I learned more about Shug Avery. I learned my lines, but everything had to be done quickly.

The author portrays himself in every line he writes and portrayal is always betrayal.

All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction supposed to be most effective for State purposes.

Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle.

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

Put temptation on the unenjoyment line.

I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.

We need American Muslims to be part of our eyes and ears on our front lines.

I'm going to do everything I can to bring our policies in line with the way families live and work today by guaranteeing paid family leave and making child care affordable.

You know how a lot of people say they could go crazy? Well, I feel I live very close to that line.

Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out in a straight line.

That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.

Success is empty if you arrive at the finish line alone.

At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line.

Americans will buy anything, as long as it doesn't cross the thin line between cute and demonic.

I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.

I never know if the person I'm shaking hands with is coming to kill me. That's something you have to live with when you cross the lines.

Judging by the hard lines of his face and the flat look in his eyes, he'd left the Marines, but the Corps hadn't quite left him.

Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

People used to think of vocal music as boring choir stuff, once you figured out that you can do crazy beat-boxing, awesome bass lines (and) throw everything together, you just have really cool music.

Some people connect with a story and may find between the lines something that might be useful to him or her, but that's not the intention of the author, I think. At least not mine.

The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the background like a spirit, like a shadow, almost. There's a very delicate line there.

Lines don't make a beautiful woman less beautiful.

I still write. I'd love to write more trashy chick-lit. At the moment, I just re-write my own lines, which probably annoys most directors - though, thankfully not Adam Brooks!

The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow.

The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing on.

I think my films kind of walk this line that Im proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.

Professor Flitwick had dried himself off and set Seamus lines ("I am a wizard not a baboon brandishing a stick")

It's sort of a fine line where you're dying to express it and then hoping no one really gets it that closely. But I'm pretty much over that. I'd really just like to be understood.

That scent she threw off was not anything by Chanel. Unless they’d recently added a Tragedy line.

The one good thing about the Angels was they always colored within the lines. They had to. Suckers.

His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because it's ugly." All his life was in that line.

The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.

I am fairly average in my expenses as a person in a technical line/CEO of work.

It's very clear, under anyone's scenario, that it's a massive, extensive undertaking regardless of where you might ultimately draw the line as to when the nuisance is abated.

The Bottom Line: If people don't LOVE our work, we will not be able to sell what we make.

I followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.

I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldnt do it, but it was probably the best thing Ive ever done.

A general message to "everyone" on the planet would go something along the lines of, "Make Love, Not War."

None of us seem to think that we should draw a line under what would be a satisfactory amount of wealth.

I love all those stupid, cheesy chat-up lines like 'Did God take the stars out of the sky and put them into your eyes?' But I never get chatted up.

The Secret of Drawing consists of just two things: 1) Making lines on paper; and 2) Choosing where they go.

Hold your breath. Try holding your breath for just thirty seconds. That’s all it takes. Try it right now while you are looking at this line. Now…on the twenty-ninth second, do any opinions matter?

The dividing line between wish and need was never clear.

Healthcare is growing now at about 10 per cent per annum in the U.S. top line, versus 3 per cent for the economy. As someone with a sharp pencil and an eye for this kind of thing, this can't last.

I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.