Spoken Lines Quotes

#1. I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you.

Edward G. Robinson

#2. My wife is really sentimental. One Valentine's Day I gave her a ring and to this day she has never forgotten those three little words that were engraved inside Made in Taiwan!

Leopold Fechtner

#3. Elijah Wood confirms his standing as the foremost actor of his generation ... Wood acts so eloquently with his sentient face and searching eyes that his job becomes one of concealing how redundant his spoken lines are - a tricky job he largely is able to bring off commendably.

Jay Carr

#4. I had the feeling deep in my gut that there'd been lines I should have spoken, gestures I should have made, that would have made things better. But looking back, I didn't know what they were. As a friend, I was pretty much useless, apparently.

Megan Crewe

#5. If you can't beat them, conjoin them

Josh Stern

#6. Like almost every truly horrible thing that has ever happened in the history of our world, the end also began with a kiss.

Dennis Sharpe

#7. Strong winds buffet the sea oats and tall dune grasses, tossing sand and seabirds where it will, winding my sister's golden hair into sunlit spirals of silk until it becomes the only good memory I have of her
the only memory I allowed myself to keep.

Karen White

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Peace is not only the goal, it is the game itself.

Debasish Mridha

#11. The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to claim it.

Kurt Vonnegut

#12. The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

Mitt Romney

#13. If you look at me like that for even one more second, I'm gonna throw you down on that bed and fuck every part of you, starting with your tits. Unless that's on the menu, you need to grab your shit and leave while you still can. This is the only warning you'll get.

Joanna Wylde

#14. Justice without compassion was the destroyer of morality, a slayer blind to empathy.

Steven Erikson

#15. In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.

Hortense Calisher

#16. I find that the thoughts spoken between the lines are the most important parts of a poem or story.

Lynn Cullen

#17. There had to have been a moment where they made a conscious decision to turn away before they saw something they didn't want to.

Jodi Picoult

#18. The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

William Faulkner

#19. The more man becomes irradiated with the Divinity of Christ, the more, not the less, truly he is man.

Phillips Brooks

#20. Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

Golda Meir

#21. Mel is a great director because he's not just a director, he's an actor, so he knows how to direct actors. I loved working with him. He's great as a director. He's so intelligent. He's generous. I really loved him.

Monica Bellucci