Lines Quotes

• It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Relief
  • Fronts
  • Tape

• An actors most important responsibility is to know lines well.

  

  Harry Morgan
  • Responsibility
  • Actors
  • Lines

• The dotted line my father's ashplant made On Sandymount Strand Is something else the tide won't wash away.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Father
  • Made
  • Tides

• How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident.

  

  William Morris Hunt
  • Drawing
  • Backgrounds
  • Eggs

• I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Stage
  • Lines
  • Gremlins

• I've been in this business 25 years. I've been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway... I've seen the unemployment line a lot.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Years
  • Broadway
  • Unemployment

• Southern Union is buying lines in a region that may have higher production in coming decades. The newest gas-shale play that has the industry most excited is Barnett Woodford in West Texas, just west of the Permian.

  

  John Whiting
  • Industry
  • Excited
  • Higher

• Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.

  

  Al Hirschfeld
  • Way
  • Creativity
  • Draws

• I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.

  

  E. J. Hughes
  • Age
  • Wisdom
  • Looks

• During the year we'll start thinking about the dream lines, ... We seemed to have come up with some good lines here although after two games in 2002 we switched them all around.

  

  Pat Quinn
  • Up
  • Good
  • Thinking

• And, for instance, Baptists, Adventists, Lutherans, Pentecostals - let them exist on line with others.

  

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky
  • Instance
  • Baptists
  • Lutherans

• We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line.

  

  Rupert Murdoch
  • Consistent
  • Immigrants
  • Foxes

• The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Right
  • Circles
  • Description

• We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Book
  • Story
  • Judge

• Hang in there, all of you out on the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan or on aboard ships in the middle of the ocean.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Ocean
  • Iraq
  • Ships

• I've never seen the yellow light, umm the yellow line be wrong.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Light
  • Lines
  • Yellow

• The straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when used to a big or small extent.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Small
  • Bigs
  • Property

• I was introduced to lots of great music through my local record store. It was a place where people knew music and they knew me, and could make great suggestions and discoveries. Whether it is in the physical world or on-line, the value of a great and knowledgeable record store has not gone away

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• When you're the director and the writer, you never have to remember your lines, and there's no one to call you on it. On Garden State I did different lines on every take, just making crap up. And it was great each time.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I can't draw a line between myself and stuff that I do. It's funny, I don't want to sound like it's just about this, but really with everything I do, it's hard for me to take myself out of it.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Funny
  • Sound
  • Stuff

• Let my inspiration flow, in token lines suggesting rhythm, that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done.

  

  Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
  • Inspiration
  • Rhythm
  • Flow

• the right line of conduct is the same for both sexes, though the manner in which it is pursued, may somewhat vary, and be accommodated to the strength or weakness of the different travelers.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Different
  • May
  • Sex

• We use improv in all kinds of fun ways. Sometimes it's to invent or discover new things, sometimes it's to weird out the other actors, and sometimes it's to create a sense of fun, to find new things inside the scripted lines.

  

  Josh Gad
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Sometimes

• The line between education and brainwashing is paper thin

  

  Yana Toboso
  • Education
  • Paper
  • Brainwashing

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