Lines Quotes

• A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Moments
  • Hours
  • Doe

• The greatest discoveries will be along spiritual lines. This is the field where miracles are going to happen. Spiritual power is the greatest underdeveloped power and has the greatest future.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Spiritual
  • Lines
  • Discoveries

• There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Laughter
  • Lines

• My favorite hotel is the Villa Alilla in Bali. The setting is pure bliss, overlooking the ocean of Uluwatu; the eye line makes you feel as if you're floating on top of the ocean.

  

  Carolyn Murphy
  • Eye
  • Feels
  • Ocean

• The emergence of Casual Fridays has created a fine line of fashion ion dos and donts.

  

  Michael Perlis
  • Fashion
  • Fine
  • Casual

• Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight lines.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Action
  • Kind
  • Lines

• I'm not single, I'm busy. That's my line.

  

  Renee Zellweger
  • Lines
  • Busy

• I spent a year in Professor Baker's famous class at Harvard. There, too, I learned some things that were useful to me-particularly what not to do. Not to take ten lines, for instance, to say something that can be said in one line.

  

  Eugene O'Neill
  • Learned
  • Class
  • Lines

• When you write, you're supposed to go stand somewhere else for a while, see things from a perspective that's not in line with your own reflexive truths.

  

  Catherine Brady
  • Writing
  • Perspective
  • Lines

• When the governing representatives of the people legalize the shedding of innocent blood (as a for-profit business, nonetheless) then they have placed themselves, and those they represent, in the direct line of God's judgment.

  

  Tony Evans
  • Blood
  • Innocent
  • Judgment

• "Which is completely out-of-line behavior. Then you are wholly within your rights to stomp on their foot." "No," Delia said, over her shoulder. "Actually, you're not. Just excuse yourself as politely as possible, and get out of arm's reach." Kristy looked at me, shaking her head. "Stomp them." she said, under her breath. "Really."

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Behavior
  • Rights
  • Feet

• Make the best of where you are and do your best to line up your Energy from where you are, because any bit of struggle or any bit of regret only holds your cork under the water and doesn't allow you to connect with the Energy that would allow anything to improve.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Energy
  • Water
  • Struggle

• So that's why I said, if you look at the average, you would see the money New York got this year was in line with the average across the prior three years and substantially more, by a country mile, than the money given to any other city.

  

  Michael Chertoff
  • Country
  • Given
  • Average

• Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines.

  

  Kay WalkingStick
  • Abstract
  • Notion
  • Symbols

• One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride.

  

  Richard Nelson Bolles
  • World
  • Wish
  • Decision

• God really exists, I tell you like this: It resides inside. And anybody tell you different, Just selling you religion, Tryin' to keep your ass in line.

  

  Killer Mike
  • Different
  • Hip Hop
  • Selling

• All of a sudden, I sort of started to feel that I was constrained by the characters as opposed to enjoying them. And that remains for me to this day the line that I know where it's like, OK, you're not writing fan fiction anymore.

  

  Naomi Novik
  • Character
  • Feels
  • Enjoy

• I think it was Tommy who told me, 'When your song is called 'XYZ' or whatever, every line has got to make sense against your title.' He showed me little methods of proving to yourself whether the line belongs, and ways of finding out whether you were able to get more out of a line if you tried.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Prove

• That's the beauty of starting lines: Until you begin a new venture, you never know what awaits you.

  

  Amby Burfoot
  • Running
  • Starting
  • Venture

• Part of walking the line as showrunner is trying to please people and still be true to what you believe creatively.

  

  Billy Lawrence
  • People
  • Believe
  • Trying

• Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Waiting
  • Listening
  • Acting

• Also, if you watch the film once, there are lots of things that you won't get because there are punch lines in the first act, the setup to which isn't until the second act.

  

  Simon Pegg
  • Film
  • Act
  • Lines

• I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Responsibility
  • Organization
  • Deals

• It's nice to represent to other people in the world that Americans actually do know what's happening in the world, can speak other languages and are conscientious. The perception quite often is that we don't know what's beyond our county line.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • World
  • Language
  • Speak

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