Unlined Quotes

#1. Beneath it his skin was milky white, serene and unlined, ready to begin anew, ready for the world to write upon it.

George R R Martin

#2. Her body was a mix of thin and plump, her skin lined and unlined, in that rounding-the-corner-to-fifty way. Age and youth, he chanted silently, youth and age, sing their songs on the very same stage.

Lorrie Moore

#3. I always write on unlined typing paper and write the first draft in longhand, using cheap Bic pens. I try to write about four pages a day, which usually yields a first draft in six months. I don't plot ahead of time, so I'm flying by the seat of my pants for the first draft.

Tess Gerritsen

#4. A film writer is very much like a party girl. While you're good-looking and still unlined, the possibilities seem endless. But your appeal doesn't last long and you're quickly discarded.

James Salter

#5. Everything in this country [the US] has got to be good looks and unlined faces and thin bodies and people running around in skirts slit up to their ass. It has nothing to do with thinking or with being a human being. There is life in mature people; it's not all over at 24½.

Lauren Bacall

#6. Her forehead was unlined in the way of the recently embalmed and her smile resembled that of someone undergoing electroshock.

Dennis Lehane

#7. I believed we could know what was happening to us. We were not excluded from our own lives. That is not my head on someone else's body in the photograph that's introduced as evidence. I didn't believe that nations play-act on a grand scale. I lived in the real.

Don DeLillo

#8. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

Stephen R. Covey

#9. RELIGION OR COUNTRY
Our allegiance may determine the fate of others

Kamil Ali

#10. A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable.

Robert M. Pirsig

#11. I'm quite claustrophobic, and I don't like everyone crowding around and shouting the same questions.

Niall Horan

#12. Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true.

Thomas Merton

#13. The young have hopes and dreams, while the old hold the remains of them in their hands and wonder what has happened to their lives.

Tan Twan Eng

#14. Oftentimes the most produced and synth-tastic songs are the ones that end up sounding the best acoustic.

Emily Haines

#15. Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don't like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don't like it.

Umberto Eco

#16. I think the best thing I learned from drawing comics is that it's a great exercise in concision.

Patrice Leconte

#17. There is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.

Karen Armstrong

#18. You give out the words and then sing them. You give out the words, you know, and the people can hear what you're giving out, and they sing that song or that line and they do the same thing again.

Ralph Stanley