Top 100 Quotes About Between The Lines

#1. 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

Quotes About Between The Lines #11705
#2. 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

Quotes About Between The Lines #23034
#3. Looking beyond the silhouette and reading between the lines are the same thing; just different art forms.

Nanette L. Avery

Quotes About Between The Lines #23193
#4. 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

Quotes About Between The Lines #30858
#5. 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

Quotes About Between The Lines #31366
#6. A straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.

Maria Edgeworth

Quotes About Between The Lines #32133
#7. 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

Quotes About Between The Lines #48511
#8. 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

Quotes About Between The Lines #48586
#9. That space between the white lines, that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.

Early Wynn

Quotes About Between The Lines #57818
#10. 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

Quotes About Between The Lines #61930
#11. One of her favorite lines was, "The difference between genius and stupidity s that genius has limits.

Kate Karyus Quinn

Quotes About Between The Lines #62360
#12. Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.

William Faulkner

Quotes About Between The Lines #65071
#13. If there are frontiers between the civilised and the barbaric, between the meaningful and the unmeaning, they are not lines on a map nor are they regions of the earth. They are boundaries of the mind alone.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Quotes About Between The Lines #67937
#14. There was a gap of seven years between the first and second Dracula movies. In the second one as everybody knows, I didn't speak, because I said I couldn't say the lines.

Christopher Lee

Quotes About Between The Lines #71308
#15. I didn't know who I was or what I was until I transformed into some mere words on an unscathed sheet, some lines pressed between the cobwebs of a turbulence, a love story.

Prachi Prangya Agasti

Quotes About Between The Lines #77358
#16. I was always aware of what the language I was using meant in terms of my bond with my parents - how it defined the lines of affection between us. When I spoke English, I felt I wasn't completely their child any more but the child of another language.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Quotes About Between The Lines #89878
#17. I feel like I walk a very fine line between wanting someone to be open and vulnerable and honest with me and the listeners, but not wanting anyone to ever feel like I'm exploiting them.

Alison Rosen

Quotes About Between The Lines #93445
#18. 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

Quotes About Between The Lines #100106
#19. [Robert Rauschenberg, 1925-2008] helped to obscure the lines between painting and sculpture, painting and photography, photography and printmaking, sculpture and photography, sculpture and dance, sculpture and technology, technology and performance art - not to mention between art and life.

Michael Kimmelman

Quotes About Between The Lines #103022
#20. The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel.

Mahatma Gandhi

Quotes About Between The Lines #107935
#21. 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

Quotes About Between The Lines #116323
#22. 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

Quotes About Between The Lines #131247
#23. There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

O. Henry

Quotes About Between The Lines #132259
#24. 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

Quotes About Between The Lines #132857
#25. The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.

Serge Schmemann

Quotes About Between The Lines #132870
#26. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.

Thomas Jefferson

Quotes About Between The Lines #136263
#27. You tried to hide between the lines of a story never told.

Lisa Loeb

Quotes About Between The Lines #139023
#28. The sloped desert plain that lay between us and the city was like a palm stretched out for a fortuneteller to read, with its mounds and hillocks, its life lines and heart lines of dry stream beds.

Barbara Kingsolver

Quotes About Between The Lines #149269
#29. Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.

Drew Curtis

Quotes About Between The Lines #150673
#30. 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

Quotes About Between The Lines #153712
#31. 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

Quotes About Between The Lines #159507
#32. When the communists won the Chinese civil war in 1949, they accepted neither the semi-independence of Tibet nor the boundary lines drawn by British imperialism between Tibet and India.

Bruce Riedel

Quotes About Between The Lines #161296
#33. Beauty is all about form; proportions and the relationships between one line and another.

Christian Louboutin

Quotes About Between The Lines #167313
#34. You know, the finest line a man will walk is between success at work and success at home.

John Candy

Quotes About Between The Lines #209208
#35. The line between outside and inside is fuzzier in fantasy. Maybe that's something people are looking for.

Lev Grossman

Quotes About Between The Lines #213289
#36. The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

Gordon Parks

Quotes About Between The Lines #234188
#37. I sigh. "But if you'd talked to Jules - if she could hear you ... " My voice trails off.
"Then you wouldn't feel quite so crazy?" Oliver asks gently. "Can't you believe in me, if I believe in you?

Jodi Picoult

Quotes About Between The Lines #235307
#38. Sports has become such a big business that the line between journalism and being a broadcast partner for all intents and purposes has been obliterated.

Dave Zirin

Quotes About Between The Lines #241393
#39. 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

Quotes About Between The Lines #242937
#40. Newspapers are read differently now [ ... ] Between the lines.

Victor Klemperer

Quotes About Between The Lines #244376
#41. The aim of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between struggle and conflict and to make it possible for nations to stay on the right side of that line ...

Javier Perez De Cuellar

Quotes About Between The Lines #251061
#42. The line is very delicate and fine between being what one might call sane or insane, well or unwell.

Ronee Blakley

Quotes About Between The Lines #253095
#43. Often, I can read between the lines, I just choose not to

M.P. Sharma

Quotes About Between The Lines #262763
#44. I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

Anthony Storr

Quotes About Between The Lines #264078
#45. Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.

Alan Dean Foster

Quotes About Between The Lines #274071
#46. I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual.

Matthea Harvey

Quotes About Between The Lines #286923
#47. There always comes a point beyond which lying becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to which the lies are addressed is forced to disregard altogether the distinguishing line between truth and falsehood in order to be able to survive.

Hannah Arendt

Quotes About Between The Lines #287665
#48. MTV wanted to downplay our lifestyles and pretend we weren't getting the checks that we actually were, so I think that was the blurry line between the lives we were really living and the lives that they wanted us to live, and things like that.

Heidi Montag

Quotes About Between The Lines #290023
#49. Ingres was one of those artists to whom the outline was something sacred and magical, and the reason is that it was the means of reconciling the major conflict in his art, the conflict between abstraction and sensibility.

Kenneth Clark

Quotes About Between The Lines #290116
#50. I'm giving into my tendency to want to blur and blend the lines between art and life, and privacy and sharing.

Lia Ices

Quotes About Between The Lines #291737
#51. Pain is useless without pleasure. One highlights the other, and the tension that simmers between them is the sweetest of lines to cross.

Lime Craven

Quotes About Between The Lines #300071
#52. Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

Margaret Millar

Quotes About Between The Lines #300451
#53. 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

Quotes About Between The Lines #302777
#54. 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

Quotes About Between The Lines #305428
#55. Where's the line between professional girlfriend, and just plain professional?

Sarah Jessica Parker

Quotes About Between The Lines #306809
#56. The line between pride in our work and neurotic obstinacy is a narrow one. We make our recommendations clear. But we do not grudge our clients the right to the final say. It is their money.

David Ogilvy

Quotes About Between The Lines #312800
#57. The line between fascism and Fabian socialism is very thin. Fabian socialism is the dream. Fascism is Fabian socialism plus the inevitable dictator.

John T. Flynn

Quotes About Between The Lines #314492
#58. This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.

Peg Bracken

Quotes About Between The Lines #316178
#59. 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

Quotes About Between The Lines #322148
#60. For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here, a scrap of narrative, an isolated description of a common object, an elaborate running metaphor which threads between the sequences and holds different narrative lines together.

Hilary Mantel

Quotes About Between The Lines #342022
#61. For me, listening to my breath in between the lines, allows me to be in deep connection to my spirit.

Giancarlo Esposito

Quotes About Between The Lines #350051
#62. Los Angeles has no seasons, so it's kind of hard to keep track of time here. The lines between spring, summer, fall, and winter all blur like my vision. I get stuck on repeat for different measures of eternity.

Kris Kidd

Quotes About Between The Lines #354044
#63. Satan's snares are mostly subtly laid and are the most tempting when the dividing line between right and wrong is so thin as to be imperceptible.

Mahatma Gandhi

Quotes About Between The Lines #364930
#64. Brian held up the three centermost fingers of his right hand. Read between the lines, asshole.

Olivia Cunning

Quotes About Between The Lines #365006
#65. 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

Quotes About Between The Lines #371492
#66. The question is not if you're willing to die for her. The question is, can you live without her?

Samantha Van Leer

Quotes About Between The Lines #377713
#67. Don't mean to sound weird but I get so immersed in the source material when I'm working on a movie that I kind of lose the line between what I thought of and what was in the book.

Zack Snyder

Quotes About Between The Lines #381083
#68. 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

Quotes About Between The Lines #387375
#69. I'm not much of a chess player, but there is an aspect of the game that I find fascinating. After a while, you can almost see lines of force between the pieces. Areas of danger where it is physically impossible to move pieces into. Clouds of possibility, forbidden zones.

Hannu Rajaniemi

Quotes About Between The Lines #390070
#70. Anybody who cares about the functioning of democracy should be concerned about the blurring of lines between public and private interests.

Alexander Stille

Quotes About Between The Lines #390372
#71. My attraction had been immediate and profound. And it had nothing to do with the way he looked. My attraction was to what resided between his lines.

Augusten Burroughs

Quotes About Between The Lines #391724
#72. Effectively, it makes the greasepaint permanent, blurring the lines not only between public and private but also between the authentic and contrived self. If all the world was once a stage, it has now become a reality TV show: we mere players are not just aware of the camera; we mug for it.

Peggy Orenstein

Quotes About Between The Lines #405461
#73. The bad things you can see with one eye closed. But keep both eyes wide open for the little things. Little things mark the great dividing line between success and failure.

Jacob Braude

Quotes About Between The Lines #405605
#74. You get used to the exact amount of space between lines. You write a word and then you write an alternate word over it. You want enough room so you can read it, so the lines can't be too close.

Stephen Sondheim

Quotes About Between The Lines #406135
#75. The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude.

Peter L. Berger

Quotes About Between The Lines #418702
#76. All of the films I have made, that I have chosen to make, are all about the thin line between good and evil. And also the thin line that exists in each and every one of us. That's what my films are about.

William Friedkin

Quotes About Between The Lines #421092
#77. 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

Quotes About Between The Lines #429585
#78. On a pitch black, starless night, a solitary man was trudging along the main road from Marchiennes to Montsou, ten kilometres of cobblestones running straight as a die across the bare plain between fields of beet.

Emile Zola

Quotes About Between The Lines #436862
#79. Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets.

Chloe Thurlow

Quotes About Between The Lines #440676
#80. There's a fine line between giving the sense of freedom and being too free.

Joe Satriani

Quotes About Between The Lines #442904
#81. I think you're so busy reading between the lines, you're missing the sentence on the page.

Lindsay J. Pryor

Quotes About Between The Lines #457323
#82. 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

Quotes About Between The Lines #457583
#83. The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate.

Jeffrey Wright

Quotes About Between The Lines #462594
#84. I gathered myself in silent pain looking to leave the one way path I was never to come back to

Ramona Matta

Quotes About Between The Lines #469751
#85. 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

Quotes About Between The Lines #490887
#86. When you think about it, there is really a fine line between being a proctologist and just being a perverted ass-freak. And according to the judge who sentenced me, that line is called a 'medical degree'.

Brad Wilkerson

Quotes About Between The Lines #490993
#87. We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and what we are now.

John Green

Quotes About Between The Lines #497456
#88. Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics.

Albert Einstein

Quotes About Between The Lines #497793
#89. I'm really attracted to music that sort of toes that line between pop and avant-garde, that pushes the envelope of what you can get in a pop song.

Patrick Stump

Quotes About Between The Lines #500319
#90. Jeff shook his head, the lines between his brows drawing together. Ask yourself this, Connor - what is it that's got your manties in such a twist? I mean, really ... what is it about Megan you don't want to lose?

Mira Lyn Kelly

Quotes About Between The Lines #500320
#91. In a good book the best is between the lines.

Swedish Proverb

Quotes About Between The Lines #510894
#92. My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Quotes About Between The Lines #516312
#93. 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

Quotes About Between The Lines #518956
#94. To understand
The signs that stars compose, we need depend
Only on stars that are entirely there
And the apparent space between them. There
Never need be lines between them, puzzling
Our sense of what is what.

John Hollander

Quotes About Between The Lines #520449
#95. 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

Quotes About Between The Lines #524591
#96. The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Quotes About Between The Lines #527230
#97. There is a line between sexualityand promiscuity, and the line is closer to celibacy than not.

Betty Jane Wylie

Quotes About Between The Lines #528754
#98. 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

Quotes About Between The Lines #543174
#99. He felt it too, the air between us, the invisible lines that something or someone had drawn to connect us. That's the way I remember it.

Sara Zarr

Quotes About Between The Lines #558691
#100. There is a thin line between the policeman and the criminal. The best cops are always crossed. The best cops are the ones who are able to think like criminals. But for a quirk of fate, they might have been criminals.

William Friedkin

Quotes About Between The Lines #584071

Famous Authors

Popular Topics

Scroll to Top