Top 28 Line Breaks Quotes
#1. I think poetry should be read very much like prose, except that the line breaks should be acknowledged somehow.
Jonathan Galassi
#2. If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting.
Sharon Olds
#3. What line breaks add to prose prosody is a connection between eye
and ear which emphasizes the nature of the language by ... creating
units of intent and emphasis, and by contouring the meloding pitch
changes in the narrative-line.
Diane Wakoski
#4. Maybe I could have loved you better. Maybe you should have loved me more. Maybe our hearts were just next in line. Maybe everything breaks sometime.
Jewel
#5. Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?
Friedrich Schiller
#7. If a painting contains no abstraction nor impressionistic elements, it is a kite that will never fly. But if the painting completely breaks the connection between human feeling and the object portrayed, the kite string has been broken. I try to keep the line unbroken.
Wu Guanzhong
#8. Joey was a very intelligent, friendly and outgoing boy, but he had a huge attitude problem and an absolutely big ego. He knew that the new school could be challenging for him, but he also knew that he would make friends easier than anyone else.(Maradonia and the Seven Bridges)
Gloria Tesch
#9. If I went on a killing spree that left thousands of people dead, I'd be branded as the worst kind of criminal. So why it is okay for the government to do exactly that?
Michel Templet
#10. If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.
David Ricardo
#11. Hillary Clinton was the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. The world came apart under her reign as Secretary of State.
Donald Trump
#12. I'm not sure what to call 'Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary.' Nonfiction? Movie/toy fiction? But it is any Lego/'Star Wars' kid's dream. Call it spectacular.
Jon Scieszka
#13. For every finish-line tape a runner breaks
complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras
there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely gets talked about.
Grete Waitz
#14. It's the law, Jack. When the government breaks the law, they have to toe the line.
Kenneth Eade
#15. Keep your head up, and know that the sun breaks through the skies each day so you can experience God's will and purpose for your life. If you can see the sun or even the moon, then you are already in line with His plans.
Andrew-Knox B Kaniki
#16. Everything was a broken line for me in those days. I was slipped into the empty spaces between words.
Betsy Cornwell
#18. It is not necessary to seek the truth among others which it is easy to obtain from the Church; since the apostles, like a rich man [depositing his money] in a bank, lodged in her hands most copiously all things pertaining to the truth.
Irenaeus Of Lyons
#19. It just seems to me that there's no particular reason comedy albums should be dead. There's a lot to laugh at. We have very funny people, still.
Eric Idle
#20. It is the cold glitter of the attacker's eye not the point of the questing bayonet that breaks the line.
George S. Patton
#21. The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.
John Herschel
#22. The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#23. His lips rise. "I usually dumb down around the intellectually deficient so I don't come off like a complete prick." I think he just called me stupid.
Krista Ritchie
#24. When I read [the script] and saw that it was my fanboy wet dream of an Avengers script and that [Agent] Coulson was a big part of it, that was the great day for me. I just drove around the streets with the script in the other seat, giggling.
Joss Whedon
#25. I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for women. So we're expected to march in a straight line, and when we don't, all hell breaks loose.
Roxane Gay
#26. When people start talking about enjambment and line endings, I always shut them up. This is not something to talk about, this is a private matter, it's up to the poet.
James Tate
#27. I had made myself believe that the eyes are not the mirror of the soul. Some of the deadliest little female contraptions I ever saw had the faces and the eyes of angels.
John Steinbeck
#28. It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me. But you know, man, I am totally together.
Syd Barrett
