Quotes About Lines

#1. Politicians today vow, "Never again!" But they will naturally focus only on dealing with a few scapegoats, not just because the system is harder to change, but also because if politicians traced the fault lines, they would find a few running through themselves.

Raghuram G. Rajan

#2. Courage is the only asset That will conquer in the fight If you have the will to mass it On the lines of truth and right.

Jack Crawford

#3. She continued her study of the lines and colors embedded in my skin.

S.L. Jennings

#4. I read somewhere that a man should tell the story of his life at the age of forty, and this deadline is fast approaching as I write these lines, only a few short weeks remain before this ominous birthday arrives.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#5. Fracture lines etch the surface of the glass box as if a body fell from the sky and landed on it.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#6. I know of one semibarbarous zone whose librarians repudiate the "vain and superstitious habit" of trying to find sense in books, equating such a quest with attempting to find meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines on the palms of one's hand.

Jorge Luis Borges

#7. I don't like straight lines: men make them.

Richard Adams

#8. I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director.

Antonio Banderas

#9. Everybody knows Aaron Sorkin's scripts. There's a huge amount of lines. There's a huge amount of interchange. You gotta do a lot of learning to be able to get it up to pace.

Danny Boyle

#10. Compare constantly, lines and angles ... Hold looking-glass before your model and your drawing. Take a second's glance only, and see if the impression be the same. If it be not, ask, 'What is the difference?

William Morris Hunt

#11. Much fuss has been made over the idea of the frontier, as though it were a line advancing east to west, but the West was settled piece meal, and Indians fled in many directions to escape the tightening noose of the railroad lines and towns.

Rebecca Solnit

#12. When the bespangled Miss Charisse wraps her phenomenal legs around [Fred] Astaire, she can be forgiven everything - even the fact that she reads her lines as if she learned them phonetically.

Pauline Kael

#13. I never know when chat-up lines are happening! I don't hear them enough. I don't get hit on enough.

Kelly Rowland

#14. I don't need a hero, Wes." I say again, pressing our foreheads tight again, my thumbs both drawing soft lines along his jaw. "I just need you.

Ginger Scott

#15. Whose lines are mottoes of the heart,Whose truths electrify the sage.

Thomas Campbell

#16. The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations on the same theme.

James Fenton

#17. From the opening lines, Sleeping with Schubert is a hilarious, whimsical romp through the looking glass of a great musical mystery. The writing snaps, crackles, and pops with humor as Bonnie Marson makes Schubert a sexy, happening kind of guy who gives new meaning to our dreaming the impossible.

Jonis Agee

#18. In the 1970s and a lot of the 1980s, we would have thanked our lucky stars in the coalfield areas for growth of 1.75 per cent. The only thing growing then were the lines of coke in front of boy George and the rest of them.

Dennis Skinner

#19. 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

#20. I shall set down in a few lines how upright Maldoror was during his early years, when he lived happy. There: done.

Comte De Lautreamont

#21. What is basic guerilla strategy? Guerilla strategy must be based primarily on alertness, mobility, and attack. It must be adjusted to the enemy situation, the terrain, the existing lines of communication, the relative strengths, the weather, and the situation of the people.

Mao Zedong

#22. I'd love to get into one of Tyler Perry's movies - play a little role, have a little character. I don't care. But more than two lines! More than two words!

Sharon Jones

#23. I think most people realize that our problems are our government, not me and you individually, except that we can - must have some sort of responsibility, because they're in there and they were elected, so we have to defend ourselves on those lines.

Willie Nelson

#24. The mind has been likened to a piece of paper that has been folded. Ever afterwards it has a tendency to fold in the same crease-unless we make a new crease or fold, when it will follow the last lines.

William Walker Atkinson

#25. Limousines with liveried chauffers delivered earnest ladies to the picket lines, sometimes in strikes against businesses which helped pay for the limousines.

Eugene Lyons

#26. stored inside of them, in frigid clouds of nitrogen, are cell lines representing nearly a thousand species.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#27. Common to the two geometries is only the general property of one-to-one correspondence, and the rule that this correspondence determines straight lines as shortest lines as well as their relations of intersection.

Hans Reichenbach

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

Marissa Meyer

#29. Patience is more than a virtue for long lines and slow waiters. Patience is the red carpet upon which God's grace approaches us.

Max Lucado

#30. 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

#31. All these threads, like the ley-lines he'd read about in his Time-Life history books, converging on the Cicciaro girl, who lay there unaware, a glass-coffined beauty whose kingdom was in ruins.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#32. Straight lines vary only in length, and therefore are least ornamental.

William Hogarth

#33. I'm sure I've said some pretty bad pick-up lines.

Noah Baumbach

#34. She knew precious little about Lithuania, she realized, and her ideas had run along the lines of Soviet concrete ghettos, TB-infected prisons, and a callous mafia. Somehow,

Lene Kaaberbol

#35. Quinn keyed up a three-dimensional holovid schematic of Vega Station and its neighbors. The jump routes were represented by sparkling jagged lines between hazy spheres of local space systems.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#36. The irony of war," he said. "It has always been this way. We are taught to think that the battle lines separate the good from the bad, but the truth, as you are beginning to understand, is less comfortable.

Jonathan Renshaw

#37. Whenever she came across lines she liked, she'd mark them in pencil and commit them to memory as if they were Holy Writ.

Haruki Murakami

#38. Well, in the past, the size of government was one of the more fundamental dividing lines between Right and Left. The Right was supposed to represent the small government philosophy - limited spending, low taxes. Obviously, things have shifted.

Andrew Sullivan

#39. At thee seaside all is narrow horizontals, the world reduced to a few long straight lines pressed between earth and sky.

John Banville

#40. I'd like to fly. Then I wouldn't have to wait in airport security lines.

Jim Morris

#41. Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.

Fred Thompson

#42. I'm endlessly putting myself on tapes for things over in America! I'm always sitting at home, learning lines, sending stuff to America.

Arthur Darvill

#43. I want you to come to me without a past. Those lines you've learned, forget them. Forget that you've been here before in other bedrooms in other places. Come to me new. Never say you love me until that day when you have proved it.

Jeanette Winterson

#44. Cubism is a part of the daily life in Spain, it is in Spanish architecture. The architecture of other countries aleays follows the line of the landscape ... but Spanish architecture always cuts the lines of the landscape.

Gertrude Stein

#45. When you're working on a huge, elaborate set that took months to create, and you're surrounded by hundreds of extras, you better remember your lines and know what you're doing in a scene!

Kenneth Choi

#46. I hate LA. Endless straight lines from nowhere particular to nothing much especially. Even

Claire North

#47. So we draw lines around our property, our counties, our cities, our states, our countries. And, boy, do we act as if those lines are important. I mean, we go to war. We will kill and die to protect those boundaries. Nature couldn't give two hoots about our national boundaries ...

David Suzuki

#48. As long as we work on God's line, He will aid us. When we attempt to work on our own lines, He rebukes us with failure.

Theodore L. Cuyler

#49. For the moment they wanted to live with the least expenditure, economize words, gestures, thoughts, float: they had only one day in which to smooth out their wrinkles, their crow's feet, the bitter lines made by a hard week's work. One day only.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#50. A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.

Andrew Carnegie

#51. The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

Saul Steinberg

#52. One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity.

Hal David

#53. Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood.

William Cowper

#54. I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

Karen Kingsbury

#55. He was a collection of hard lines and tailored edges

Leigh Bardugo

#56. The lines in her face were deep enough to hide gravel in.

Dennis Lehane

#57. It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how.

Holly Near

#58. My primary objective is to encourage dialogue between all Christians, both Jew and Gentile, and to open more lines of communication with Jews who still have yet to accept Jesus of Nazareth as their Messiah.

James Mikolajczyk

#59. connection." Stacy burst out laughing. Kat just stared at him. He continued. "I love you small chicks, you know? You're kinda adorable. A spinner, am I right? You know what would look good on me? You." "Do these lines ever work?" Kat asked him. "I'm not done yet." Sunglasses

Anonymous

#60. The nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel.

Pierre Berton

#61. Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past the moment. Jacking off. Television. Denial.

Chuck Palahniuk

#62. When I'm in certain moods, a conversation will start up in my head, and suddenly I'll realize that the language has reached a very high and interesting level, and then lines and stanzas will just kind of appear, full-blown.

Franz Wright

#63. I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal.

John Burns

#64. When two people are in love, they are parrallel lines. That intersect. Together but seperate. Infinity.

James Collins

#65. I can think of no greater disaster to this country than to have the voters of it divide upon religious lines.

Al Smith

#66. Something about not waiting for the laugh of a laugh track allows you to take lines that otherwise might be seen as just direct jokes, and make them seem realistic.

Mitchell Hurwitz

#67. We bumped into other silent lines of kids going in the same direction. We looked like we were much younger and our lines were headed to the cafeteria or recess or the carpool line. Or it could've been a fire drill. Except for the stone-faced police officers weaving between us with rifles.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#68. The magnetic cleavage of the spectral lines is dependent on the size of the charge of the electron, or, more accurately, on the ratio between the mass and the charge of the electron.

Pieter Zeeman

#69. You can hear the train in those lines; you can feel its rocking motion.

Alexander McCall Smith

#70. Everything move ... you wonder how it all knows where to go. Einstein wondered how birds knew where to migrate to. He thought they might follow lines of light in the sky. He saw everything as lines of light. That's how he was built. So we don't know how he moved, either. Any more than the birds.

Geoff Ryman

#71. I tend to be more arrogant on stage. Far more ignorant. I sometimes say what I think and sometimes say the opposite of what I think and the lines get blurred, but I can only hope that some kind of absolute power transcends.

Sarah Silverman

#72. It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy.

Hunter S. Thompson

#73. I was moaning and grieving as if I lost one of my own children. It was probably one of the most real feelings I ever had on the show. I was just sitting there wailing with no lines. I was beat after that storyline.

Hunter Tylo

#74. The border between the natural and the supernatural, religion and philosophy, may not always be clear. But there are lines, and we should know and accept which side of it we are on.

Julian Baggini

#75. And they're [Coen brothers] so smart, they're so witty, they have such an extraordinary way of communicating with an audience in a such a clean way - with just a few lines or just a gesture from a character, they say so much.

Angelina Jolie

#76. Americans mythologized competition and credit it with saving us from socialist bread lines.

Peter Thiel

#77. In all things that live there are certain irregularities, and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry.

John Ruskin

#78. ...he told a story about the days when he was a reporter himself and how he had gotten so close to story that he finally couldn't write it...When I stared at something long enough, the lines blurred and I could no longer see it for what it was. One thing became another.

Pete Dexter

#79. I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or the sister.

Sharon Horgan

#80. I'm an actor, learning lines and saying them in the right order.

James Nesbitt

#81. I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

Gavin DeGraw

#82. Pulaski had never been one for the overwrought plot; any entanglement he could imagine between these two lines of evidence was willful to the point of insanity.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#83. Growing up and going out to bars in Australia - people do random things; cheesy pick-up lines ... you got to laugh. It's sweet. Some people come up with cracker lines, and you really can't be mean to them.

Nicky Whelan

#84. If we can so easily remember catchy lyrics and memorable movie lines, how much more should we seek to remember the precious words of our Lord and Savior?

Wendy Blight

#85. They looked at the paper and saw nothing in those curving lines, but they knew and understood everything, for their geography was in their blood and they felt biologically their picture of the world.

Ivo Andric

#86. State politics is show business for ugly people who can't remember their lines.

James Browning

#87. I felt sorry when I came to the last page. I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print the way you crawl through a fence.

Sylvia Plath

#88. Some lines were never meant to be crossed, however good your cause may seem.

Mira Grant

#89. 'Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling what is happening, and then there's one voice from the past that's also driving the story forward. And you know that the two story lines will meet eventually.

Jo Nesbo

#90. I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to cross gender lines and people of all social classes. So for me, writing from a male point of view would be a great challenge, that I would look forward to taking on.

Marisha Pessl

#91. The best scripts I read are usually pretty - they move really quickly, there's not a lot of exposition in between all of what's happening, so you can really just flow with the lines, and you're reading and it has a momentum and you understand it emotionally.

Kirsten Dunst

#92. The last point that I'd make. I had a hearing. I had all of the veterans groups in front of me. And I said to them, tell me when a veteran gets in to the V.A., understanding there are waiting lines and real problems, when a veteran gets into the system, is the quality of care good?

Bernie Sanders

#93. Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.

Alec Baldwin

#94. Singing is all about certain inflection on certain lines. I used to listen to tapes of everybody from Michael Jackson and Prince to Earth, Wind and Fire. They would have different vocal inflections. If the line insinuated pain, they would cringe on some lines.

Trey Songz

#95. I love movies and all, but I could never imagine standing around saying lines and playing make believe all day. It's too fucking ridiculous. Also, even children and animals can technically be actors. It's not a job for a man.

A.D. Aliwat

#96. Today, the lines between mentoring and networking are blurring. Welcome to the world of mentworking.

Julie Winkle Giulioni

#97. Below birds crossing the lake of the sky
and purple martins on power lines, down
to the trees and one thing my brother said
that stays with me from Long Island to Vermont,
something about trees being conductors
of spirit ...

Anne Marie Macari

#98. If you regard evidence as a constraint and seek to free yourself, you sell yourself into the chains of your whims. For you cannot make a true map of a city by sitting in your bedroom with your eyes shut and drawing lines upon paper according to impulse.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#99. In 'Night At The Museum 3,' with Ben Stiller, I was only given a couple of lines. If you are in guys' comedies, it's not like you are ever going to just get handed some jokes and a brilliant role.

Rebel Wilson

#100. Ax." Sadie is breathless as she caresses the angular lines of my face. "I love you so much. You're my whole world. You know that, right?

Siobhan Davis