Lines Quotes

It's not the fur or the fangs that make you a monster, not always. Sometimes, it's just where you draw the line.

If you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning.

I feel that if I establish the world or the premise from the first line, then I can get the reader to come with me where I want her to go.

They tied me back together, but they didn't use double knots. My insides are draining out of the fault lines in my skin, I can feel it, but every time I check the bandages, they're dry.

I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?"

Vitamin C is a very effective immune booster and probably the safest first line of defense for infection.

There is a thin line between genius and insanity, and in Larry's (MacPhail) case it was sometimes so thin you could see him drifting back and forth.

By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There’s no specific line, as you know.

The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies?

Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.

There is in us all that line that prevents us from fully understanding those who are different.

Perspective is a most subtle discovery in mathematical studies, for by means of lines it causes to appear distant that which is near, and large that which is small.

Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present.

I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.

The line between outside and inside is fuzzier in fantasy. Maybe that's something people are looking for.

I don't buy the 'at 60 it's great to have kids' thing. I don't buy the line that has been thrown down - 'You can have a kid at any time.' That doesn't mean you should.

We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.

The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one,” Dr. Poblocki said. “When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?

The University of Miami is not a campus with visible school spirit, just visible tan lines.

I’ve never had any objection to appearing depraved or villainous. But I draw the line at looking like a prize idiot.

Feels like I'm in a play and I don't know all my lines.

God, three weddings in one day, I'm going to be in Spanx for 12 hours. My elastic line is gonna get infected again.

The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter.

Send me no more reviews of any kind. I will read no more of evil or good in that line. Walter Scott has not read a review of himself for thirteen years .

A funny line can never exist on its own. It needs to be surrounded by mood and circumstances.

I've never seen the yellow light, umm the yellow line be wrong.

I just had a throwaway part, really, if you think about it. I'm not a natural actor, you know? I'm a comedian, through and through. And I really love my lines. Those are the lines I want to do.

Cognitive science is a rapidly developing area, so it could be that there are some surprises around the corner. That does seem to be kind of where the trend line is leading.

The bottom line for everyone is I'm not good enough. It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

What shall I say? I must tread a fine line between glaciosity and friendlinosity. With just a hint of 'you don't know what you are missing, my fine-feathered friend.

For me, I walk a line of fame and infamy. I walk the line of celebrity and non-celebrity.

Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims the streets for ordinary people.

but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.

I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county's first battered-women's shelter, some nights there were no beds left. Violence against women crosses all economic lines.

[John Kerry] actually stole my line because when I became Secretary of State, I said, 'I hope my heels will fill Warren Christopher's shoes.' So he reversed that.

Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.

Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.

I would wait in line for anything to do with Doctor Who.

I get a lot of "Shut up, Matilda." I probably get as many "Shut up, Matildas" as Wil Wheaton gets "Shut up, Wesleys." That was an actual line on his show, though.

I'm in the kitchen five days a week, no matter what, and one or two of those days I'm on the line. Not because I have to be, but because I want to be.

There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness.

Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? How much is too much, how far is too far?

We need more than a new politics; what we need is a new worldview. We need a fundamentally different bottom line.

Lines drawn into his face suggested he had spent many years thinking very hard over very difficult problems.

Democrats want to fall in love; Republicans just fall in line.

Acting is about listening, and that's something that took me awhile. You almost don't have to learn your lines, if you listen to what they're saying and move it along.

The Australian Open attracts one of the most competitive line-ups in the world and I’m looking forward to putting the heat on some of my old on-court rivals.

Democrats can have a different version of the line, or they can just say, no, we are the party of international peace and activism, and we're the party that's going to have a civilized capitalism.

Franklin Roosevelt had a pretty clear line. Ronald Reagan had a pretty clear line, people who rescue parties.

Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.