Tracing Lines Quotes

#1. While he himself was marking out lines and courses on the wrinkled charts, some invisible pencil was also tracing lines and courses upon the deeply marked chart of his forehead.

Herman Melville

#2. Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught, / How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?

Marshall McLuhan

#3. No doubt the detour to deliver Lake had made the sheep late for an appointment.

Jeff VanderMeer

#4. I started my career giving a clinic in bad acting in the film, "The Silver Chalice," and now I'm playing a crusty old man who's an animated automobile [in "Cars"]. That's a creative arc for you, isn't it?

Paul Newman

#5. Communication in every which way is everything for the leader.

John Maeda

#6. Even so, everything was ever so slightly off, as if little by little the tracing paper had slipped irretrievably from the lines of summers past.

Haruki Murakami

#7. Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.

Ayn Rand

#8. This tale grew in the telling, until it became a history of the Great War of the Ring and included many glimpses of the yet more ancient history that preceded it.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#9. One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

Moliere

#10. Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle.

Henry Fuseli

#11. No empty words and gestures, but hands filled with hands, hands pointing the way, hands tracing new lines as age slowly creases its course from the corners of my eyes.

Nolan Liebert

#12. Nothing is solid. Nothing is fixed. These are images that time changes and that change time, just as the sun and the rain play on the surface of things.

Jeanette Winterson

#13. My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

Eddie Van Halen

#14. You talk when you cease
to be at peace with your
thoughts.

Kahlil Gibran

#15. Ever since I was a kid, I've always thought it very important to be happy inside. There's a lot of bad things happening in the world, but it's important to try to stay happy and appreciate what you've got, and don't look externally for the happiness.

Ana Ivanovic

#16. Backlash, actually, by Susan Faludi,

Helen Fielding