Lines Quotes

The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry.

A lot of actors think that the more lines they have the more attention they get. That's bullshit. I make people look at me. I don't have to say a lot of words.

If I can't serve on grass, I can maybe help cut the grass, paint the lines and serve some strawberries.

You gotta be hungry for it. You’ve got to put everything you got on it. EVERYTHING! Every second. You have to be the first one in line. That’s how leaders are born.

The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

We have ...drawn a line in the sand.

The real news has gotten more surreal and absurd, and my fake news, if you want to call it that, has gotten more plausible. And at some point, those two trend lines crossed.

My tombstone? I'm thinking something along the lines of, 'Geez, he was just here a minute ago.'

In visual futurism, the line between total fantasy and futuristic is a thread of reality.

Sweet love! Sweet lines! Sweet life! Here is her hand, the agent of her heart; Here is her oath for love, her honour's pawn

Too many girls follow the line of least resistance, but a good line is hard to resist.

The world is upside down, if you can keep your head while everyone around you is losing theirs and blaming it on you, then you will be a man, my son. One of the greatest lines ever written.

People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.

What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones that don't match up you kind of kick to the curb.

I've never had a good line. Well, maybe 'I must break you'.

The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations.

Nashville used to have more integrity than just looking at the bottom line.

The straight line is ungodly.

Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

Virtually all top achievers know that to really get ahead, you've got to be willing to color outside the lines. Here's why

Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may.

Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line.

Right after Dynasty ended I had a facelift and laser surgery to get rid of lines around my eyes.

We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.

Now me and my brother go to see him some times but he don't have much to say anymore. So we sit on his headstone with a fifth of Jack D. Here's to a long line of sinners like me.

The line I trace with my feet walking to the museum is more important and more beautiful than the lines I find there hung up on the walls.

It seems a fine line between being a matador and being a rodeo clown

I'm just back in line with every other actor looking for a job right now and keeping my fingers crossed.

You know, there's such a very thin dividing line between inspiration and obsession that sometimes it's very hard to decide which side we're really on.

No matter whether a person belongs to the upper ranks or the lower, if he has not put his life on the line at least once he has cause for shame.

But I put my life on the line to save animals.

Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order.

The interest and the feelings are not due to colors; the lines of a painting that move us move us even more in a print.

Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture.

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

It came to me late, as an adult, the desire to draw and participate in the world of lines.

The reason that democracies always defeat dictatorships is because they're open to debate. We should never allow Washington to say, 'Shut up, get in line and wave the flag.'

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.

There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain.

Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?

The dividing line between the wave or particle nature of matter and radiation is the moment “Now.” As this moment steadily advances through time it coagulates a wavy future into a particle past.

When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.

A vertical line is dignity. The horizontal line is peaceful. The obtuse angle is action. That's universal, it is primary.

Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.

I just want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life, because work is my life and the lines can get really blurry.

And to turn it into rap wasn't too difficult besides just rhymin' the last words of each line.

The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.

I hate learning lines, so the fight stuff's always my favorite.