Top 100 Quotes About Between The Lines
#1. Looking beyond the silhouette and reading between the lines are the same thing; just different art forms.
Nanette L. Avery
#2. Our modern ideas of 'functioning' through things are really quite inhuman. We have this idea that no matter what is going on we still have to color between the lines, act normal.
Julia Cameron
#3. I can see you, out there, reading between the lines. Come home, stranger. Come home, untangler of my thoughts. Come home and tell me, what do I do with this breaking heart of mine?
Kamila Shamsie
#4. I was raised on the good book Jesus Till I read between the lines Now I don't believe I ever wanna see the morning
Laura Nyro
#5. I think what Vincent wanted was for me to find him in his words, even between the lines. Then he wanted me to write him a story he could live in just as I had once told him I might.
Elizabeth Stone
#6. The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.
Serge Schmemann
#7. You tried to hide between the lines of a story never told.
Lisa Loeb
#8. The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an intereffect between the lines in a painting: one line attracts the other and at the point of maximum attraction the lines curve in toward the attracting point and form is altered.
Pablo Picasso
#9. I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.
Madeleine Stowe
#10. You really have to take your time; you have to know your character and your scene. The line you are about to say comes from the moment right before. It's not what's said, it's what is in between the spaces, it's what's in between the lines; that is the most important to play.
Sarah Shahi
#11. Newspapers are read differently now [ ... ] Between the lines.
Victor Klemperer
#12. Often, I can read between the lines, I just choose not to
M.P. Sharma
#13. Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.
Margaret Millar
#14. To those who would call me a thug or worse because I show passion on a football field - don't judge a person's character by what they do between the lines. Judge a man by what he does off the field, what he does for his community, what he does for his family.
Richard Sherman
#15. In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the whole training of Western classical music - they don't read between the lines, they just read the lines.
Ravi Shankar
#16. Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore, at least between the lines, spars with his reader and potential judge.
Erik Erikson
#17. For me, listening to my breath in between the lines, allows me to be in deep connection to my spirit.
Giancarlo Esposito
#18. Brian held up the three centermost fingers of his right hand. Read between the lines, asshole.
Olivia Cunning
#19. Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting.
Robert Carlyle
#20. I start to think, and then I sink
Into the paper like I was ink
When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines
I escape when I finish the rhyme.
Rakim
#21. I could read between the lines just as well as anyone, especially Riona. Telling the Queen of Faerie to shut the fuck up probably came with consequences.
Suzanne M. Sabol
#22. Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets.
Chloe Thurlow
#23. I think you're so busy reading between the lines, you're missing the sentence on the page.
Lindsay J. Pryor
#24. The official name of the project is 'Jewish Museum' but I have named it 'Between the Lines' because for me it is about two lines of thinking, organization and relationship. One is a straight line, but broken into many fragments, the other is a tortuous line, but continuing indefinitely.
Daniel Libeskind
#25. For all the idealism that propels him through the story, if you read between the lines you may see that at a moment which he considers a defining point in his life as an activist, he's also set the stage for potential ugliness down the road.
James Vance
#27. Hook was not his true name. To reveal who he really was would even at this date set the country in a blaze; but as those who read between the lines must already have guessed,
J.M. Barrie
#28. When people ask what 'American Pie' is about, they're missing the point. The song isn't about the lines themselves - it's about what is between the lines. The song is about what isn't there.
Don McLean
#29. Between the lines of every story there is another story, and that is one that is never heard and can only be guessed at by the people who are good at guessing.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#30. Brother Kendrick Lamar: he's not a rapper, he's a writer, he's an author. And if you read between the lines, we'll learn how to love one another. But you can't do that, I said you can't do that, without loving yourself first.
Kendrick Lamar
#31. Maybe you saw her first? Caught a glimpse between the lines, between the letters, like a ghost in the mirror, a ghost in the wings?
Mark Z. Danielewski
#32. Quite often it's not about what is said, but what isn't. And even when it's spoken, read between the lines. Listening with the heart is just as important as hearing with the mind.
T.F. Hodge
#33. Stories are all around us, caught in the throats of the strangers you walk past and scrawled on the pages of locked diaries. They're in love letters that were never sent and between the lines of every conversation ever spoken. Just because your story's not written down doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Jodi Picoult
#34. Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
May Sarton
#35. To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text,
Henry James
#36. Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#37. Never mind reading between the lines, try reading what's on them first.
Teri Louise Kelly
#38. Remember Ping-fa, Sun Tzu,' Art of War - read between the lines: kick ass and take names later."
Mad
Stargirl
Linden Morningstar
#39. Reflections ... passages in time..sometimes, the only things that make sense..the only peace I find..is found somewhere, unwritten..in between the lines.
Victoria June
#40. I ain't the captain of the yacht, but I'm on the boat;
I ain't acting what I'm not, knowing that I don't.
You niggaz acting like you will, but I know you won't.
Man, I read between the lines of the eyes of your brows,
Your handshake ain't matchin your smile ...
Beanie Sigel
#41. Every song has a hundred haunting words in it and only I can really read between the lines. I used to love it, but these days every one is like a torturous serenade, mocking me every time.
Becky Wicks
#42. The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines - has bcome the secret friend of their author.
Katherine Mansfield
#43. Is there anybody listening? Is there anyone who sees what's going on? Read between the lines, criticize the words they're selling. Think for yourself, and feel the walls become sand beneath your feet.
Geoff Tate
#44. Yeah, good to see you too.
Her hand stays on the gun.
"Did I say it was good to see you, Joe?
"No, but I always try to read between the lines. Figured you going for your gun was how you express affection these days.
Charlie Huston
#45. Think back over your day and consider when God spoke. How did you sense it, or why did you fail to sense it at the time? It is often between the lines and in the empty places where we hear God.
Lonni Collins Pratt
#46. Define the perimeter of your life. Set it beyond the realm of possibility. Then from there begin to paint in between the lines. Use many colors and get into every possible nook and cranny. Don't erase a single thing.
Josh Blatter
#47. Some people skim life and some people read so closely they see the things others don't. That's where the beauty lies, in between the lines, in the details. The story within the story.
Kim Holden
#48. Don't believe everything you hear, okay? You're a smart girl. You can read between the lines.
Karen Thompson Walker
#49. So if you're going to write about race, you have to make sure it's so lyrical and subtle that the reader who doesn't read between the lines won't even know it's about race.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#50. It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines.
David Maraniss
#51. Eva was a between-the-lines talker. She left the sayable unsaid and said what she meant without saying it.
Robert Wilson
#52. Photographs tell a story," Alison mutters. "But people forget to read between the lines.
A.G. Howard
#53. Some day, I hope that you will find me hidden amidst my worlds, letters, poems and writings, discover me amidst my characters, uncover what i hid in plain sight. But I doubt you will. You have never known how to read between the lines.
Srividya Srinivasan
#54. I can't think of anything to write about, I'm just walking around here between the lines, under the light of your eyes, in the breadth of your mouth as in a beautiful happy day, which remains beautiful and happy, even when the head is sick and tired.
Franz Kafka
#55. When people try to read between the lines - critics, they have a job. Their job is to make something bigger than it is.
Chris Rock
#56. You could get the words all straight and neat between the lines, but the meaning was in the way they zigzagged toward a person when you gave them life.
Tamara Valentine
#57. The best listeners listen between the lines.
Nina Malkin
#58. Inside the book between the lines, was a place to rest and absorb the magic
SARK
#59. Stadiums fill up with people to see what's going to happen between the lines. But life isn't only about visible realities. There are invisible and unseen nuances ... things that shape us into who we are.
Orel Hershiser
#60. Most of the films I myself like don't do very well. Every director, he has a choice, whether to go for subtlety and try to articulate every minute detail, or to go for the broad strokes and hope that the people will fill in between the lines. I tend to go for the broader strokes.
Sylvester Stallone
#61. Even the blind man can see the beauty as it rides upon the sound of a voice, edge itself between the lines on his fingerprints to be spread upon the smooth snippets of life he touches.
Adri Sinclair
#62. I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.
Feist
#63. All good art is political. Between the lines of every book, the author implants messages for the unsuspecting reader. If not, what point does it serve?
Chloe Thurlow
#64. I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.
Annie Baker
#65. It is always easy to question, to allege; the real job is to actually understand, read between the lines.
Rohit Omar
#66. Learn how to leave yourself behind, read between the lines, and let your spirit soar ... take our Heavenly Father's guiding hand.
Phil Mitchell
#67. My intellect tells me read between the lines.. No need to humor something that is what it is and is not what it was.
Phil Thersby
#68. I find that the thoughts spoken between the lines are the most important parts of a poem or story.
Lynn Cullen
#69. The Glory Is Always Hidden Between The Lines Of the Story
Sujit Lalwani
#70. Just because it is called 'Erotica' does not mean that the writer has to leave passion to be read between the lines.
Irene Clearmont
#71. Scarcely anything in literature is worth a damn except what is written between the lines.
Raymond Chandler
#72. I think what's difficult is proving to people that a script actually does work and sometimes the laughter might not be on the page, it might be between the lines.
Alice Lowe
#73. I thought I could rely on the plot in the novel and fill in the colour between the lines, but I made a mistake with that assumption. It was really, really hard because you pull a few things apart and then you realise how everything relies on everything else and it can all fall apart.
Ben Affleck
#74. I think that learning to read between the lines of traditional media is one way to stay informed, and also realizing that eventually you're going to have to cross-reference all sorts of different information coming from different sources.
Immortal Technique
#75. All I have to do is stay in between the lines and make sure that no one is too close to me and I am not too close to anyone and keep leaving. Maybe it felt like this for her, too, but I could never feel like this alone.
John Green
#76. I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.
Vera Farmiga
#78. You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines.
Robert Wise
#79. Genre expectations can kill creativity. If you do something different, it will get hated. The best filmmakers can do everything on the approval list and knock it out of the park. For me, I have a hard time being creative when I have to color in between the lines.
David Ayer
#80. Once again the historian who wishes to understand this difficult period must try to read between the lines. It
Donald Kagan
#81. 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.
Isabel Allende
#82. Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#83. If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other: you communicate the information between the lines of insulting sentences.
John Oliver
#84. In communist Russia, their major organ was Pravda, which means "truth." The Russians knew how to read between the lines. They didn't take their literature literally.
Raymond Pettibon
#85. I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
Karen Kingsbury
#86. Satan had been making admiring remarks about certain of the Creator's sparkling industries
remarks which, being read between the lines, were sarcasms.
Mark Twain
#87. Until the building of Solomon's temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover, it is easy to read between the lines that even after that date it was more a pious wish than a practical demand.
Julius Wellhausen
#88. Oh shit, she'd done that wrong, hadn't she? She'd said that wrong, he didn't understand what she meant. She'd thought he would know, that he'd be able to read between the lines and understand, but what if he hadn't? SHould she say more? But how much more?
Stacia Kane
#89. I am known as a one liner man because I don't give chance to people to read between the lines.
Amit Abraham
#90. People don't analyze Britney Spears' lyrics 'cause they're so obvious, you know? And her image is so kind of blah and mainstream that who really wants to read between the lines, because it's all so out there in front of you and boring and white bread.
Juliana Hatfield
#91. It's only after the fact that we trace the lines, join dots between things, skip over anything that doesn't fit. We make stories to account for everything that's happened. It's nice to think the world makes sense. It's nice to think that you make sense. But sometimes things just happen.
Kirsty Logan
#92. It does, Tennyson, because there's a fine line between confidence and arrogance. There's a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And you're on the wrong side of both lines.
Neal Shusterman
#93. In America, the border of the property would have been gated to keep children and sleepwalkers and drunkards from dropping to their deaths, but there was no division here between safety and stupidity: you had to draw those lines yourself.
Courtney Maum
#94. We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.
Axl Rose
#95. A straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.
Maria Edgeworth
#96. Just friends? Alright friend we won't kiss goodnight, and I won't hold you tight and wish that you were mine just for one night. I will separate my dreams from my eyes, separate my heart from my spine, keep clean the lines between my hands and your innards.
Coco J. Ginger
#97. The fuzzy boundary lines between different readership ages have always puzzled me, so these days I just write what comes, and assume I can fix the mess later with an editor's help.
Julie Berry
#98. That space between the white lines, that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.
Early Wynn
#99. We should not blur the lines between legal and illegal immigrants. Millions of people around the world have gone through the process to come here legally and they followed the rules that required them to pay a fee, learn English, and learn about American history and government.
Ken Calvert
#100. One of her favorite lines was, "The difference between genius and stupidity s that genius has limits.
Kate Karyus Quinn
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