Lines Quotes

Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to.

At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.

I don't believe it is in the state's interest to industrialize our ridge lines.

Every leaf is a spacious plain; every line a flowing brook; every period a lofty mountain.

Trios aren't really geared for slide unless you're gonna play chords, or play that simple George Thorogood style. It gets pretty thin when you play single note lines.

We do not draw red lines unless we intend to carry them out. We have made very clear that we are willing to work with China, and we believe China has tried to be helpful.

Even an ugly, abject photograph bears the recording of its making... my goal [is] to create dense objects, works in which many lines of thought converge.

People who try to predict the future by extrapolating in a line of more of what exists - they are always wrong.

I'm from the suburbs and where I'm from didn't necessarily have people like you see in 'Suburgatory,' but along those lines and I think people will laugh at themselves. And it's lighthearted.

You write to be read. That is the bottom line.

I struggled to learn basic skills, get a grip on markets, find my own unique voice, create story lines and come up to speed with the industry. I struggled for ten years before having any success.

I may not be the most patient woman in the world, or the most glamorous, or the most athletic, but I'm right up there at the top of the line when it comes to resiliency.

Wasn't that the way it always was? You didn't know, you couldn't tell, you just let it happen... Perhaps they didn't know themselves. Sometimes the line was very fine.

she was such a bad actress. she never said her lines rite, it was something perverse in her nature. and wat was her line anyway?

I got a hat deal with Resistol, where I have my own line of cowboy hats.

Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred.

I like letting takes play out, beginning to end. I don't like doing pick-ups of one line or another. I like letting the actors discover the flow of the scene, inside the scene as a whole.

Really? Anyone intimidated by Barack Obama? He can't even keep Joe Biden in line.

Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.

That's why we had Louis C.K. portray the harder line Communist, to accuse [Dalton] Trumbo of being a hypocrite.

Even in the days of the tightest credit in 2008, HELOCs [ home equity line of credit ] and home equity loans were being made.

I once truly believed that if I had to stand in line for twenty minutes to have a package gift-wrapped it actually gave the recipient more pleasure.

Real men don't do pickup lines just to sweep off every girls' feet. They do and trust their own instincts knowing what the girls' wants and needs. Vying to win their hearts.

The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body.

Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.

Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.

Have you met my boyfriend?” There. That was a doozy. His eyes narrowed, and his lips thinned into a tight line. Yep, Noah was a mood kill for both of us.

If you're playing things sincere in a really absurd, heightened situation, you'll achieve comedy as opposed to just saying funny lines and one-liners and stuff.

You might be a redneck if you've ever stood in line to get your picture taken with a freak of nature.

That same preface also contains a single line that really does sum everything up: 'Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.'

It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move.

She was a large, disordered woman, like a child's drawing that didn't stay within the lines.

The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate.

The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.

There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.

writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts.

As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.

The concept of having staple pieces with clean, basic lines, and adding accessories to funk it all up is one that applies to both fashion and decorating. There are so many parallels.

I don't do chat-up lines. Girls often tell me I'm cheeky. Being cheeky seems to work OK for me.

The bottom line is, you can't be afraid to fail.

I do have the cheesiest of cheesy chat-up lines used on me.

I often find that people's reactions to the show say way more about them than they do about the show itself. I think that's because a lot of it happens between the lines.

There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.

When you raise prices, you've got to make sure you get it to the bottom line. You can fritter it away because of the way you're running the business, with maybe not a totally disciplined approach.

I never start with the story first, which is maybe obvious, because the narrative line of my films is really not that strong or dramatic. They're very simple.

There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.

Bo Derek turned down the role of Helen Keller because she couldn't remember the lines.

If you're saying the same line 10 times and making it look like you just came up with it, that's acting.

The fact is Donald Trump is trying to divide Americans along racial and ethnic lines, and it's unhealthy for the country.

If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.