Lines Quotes

• 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

• 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

• Pray to God and say the lines.

  

  Bette Davis
  • God
  • Lines
  • Pray

• You get used to the exact amount of space between lines. You write a word and then you write an alternate word over it. You want enough room so you can read it, so the lines can't be too close.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Writing
  • Space
  • Enough

• "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

• It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.

  

  Michael McKean
  • Stupid
  • Lines
  • Fine

• By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition.

  

  Charles Webster Hawthorne
  • Imagination
  • Canvas
  • Composition

• In that film Love Story, there's a line, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." That's the dumbest thing I ever heard. Love means saying you're sorry every day for some little thing or other.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Film
  • Heard
  • Love Story

• 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

• In Christianity, nobody wins until everybody crosses the line.

  

  Christine Caine
  • Winning
  • Christianity
  • Crosses

• Each of these lines attempts to serve a portion of our population for which we extend our sympathy and encouragement. But nevertheless, it is only a small portion of South Carolina's chronically ill or abused. Overall, these special add-on lines distract from the agency's broader mission of protecting South Carolina's public health.

  

  Nikki Haley
  • Special
  • Population
  • Encouragement

• Whoever controls the line of scrimmage and wins up front is going to be the winner.

  

  Carson Palmer
  • Winning
  • Winner
  • Fronts

• You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Audience

• You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Drawing
  • Waste
  • Crossings

• Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Real
  • Fool
  • Crafts

• And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

  

  David Bowie
  • Band
  • Grows
  • Behinds

• So the Great Santini was how he liked being referred to by his children. He would line up his seven children, and there was this ritual we'd go through. And he would say, who's the greatest of them all? And we - the seven - would say, you are, oh, Great Santini. And he would say, who knows all, hears all and sees all? You do, oh, Great Santini. So this was the ridiculous way I was raised.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Children
  • Ridiculous
  • Ritual

• It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Lines
  • Amount
  • Guts

• There's that area, right there, where you can be too hard on yourself or you need to be really hard on yourself - I'm trying to ride that line by telling myself that I can always write better, sing better, what can we do to make the show more interesting? Pretend that you're the guy who's been in the front row for the last five shows; what would make it new for you?

  

  Cody Johnson
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Guy

• I opened the show with this line: "I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, wait, sorry, that's tomorrow night.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Night
  • Waiting
  • Sorry

• Line up your thoughts up for potential, take action and success will follow.

  

  Michael Arndt
  • Action
  • Improvement
  • Lines

• Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive

  

  Ratan Tata
  • Important
  • Alive
  • Lines

• The script looks huge when you first get it, but you just have to go home and drill the lines out. The more you read it, the shorter it gets. I usually read it at least four times.

  

  Ray Fearon
  • Home
  • Four
  • Least

• I've found that I'd be the first one to cut lines.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • Cutting
  • Lines

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