Lines Quotes

• There's such a kind of complicated line between politics and the law and we don't sit around and say, hey, you know, what would Oliver Wendell Holmes have had to say to this.

  

  Dahlia Lithwick
  • Law
  • Lines
  • Hey

• 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

• Zen, on the other hand, is not so dogmatically sterile, though there are certainly traces and more than traces of this austerity. However, with Zen we have not only the void, but the fertile void. The ink lines in a sumi-e painting show this fertility of the void ever ready to brim over into existence.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Hand
  • Painting
  • Hands

• Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

  

  Alfred Nobel
  • People
  • Lawyer
  • Crooked

• The line between education and brainwashing is paper thin

  

  Yana Toboso
  • Education
  • Paper
  • Brainwashing

• Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.

  

  William Whewell
  • Force
  • Fine
  • Bending

• The greatest ability in the whole human race and all amongst the livingness, is the ability to help. And when you can improve that ability all the way up along the line, you've improved about all there is to improve about a person.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Up
  • Help
  • Way

• 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

• Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

  

  Margaret Millar
  • People
  • Reading
  • Expert

• There are instances where lines in my work are borrowed or stolen from sources, mainly from books, or they become my own versions. A lot of the writing is my own, too. But if someone were to take each drawing and trace it back to its source, most of them could be traced back to a book or a text.

  

  Raymond Pettibon Black Flag
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Drawing

• There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • People
  • Chaos
  • Collectivity

• Diffidence in an officer is a good mark because he will always endeavor to bring himself up to what he conceives to be the full line of his duty.

  

  George Washington
  • Duty
  • Mark
  • Endeavor

• The rogue states have to be told that there are lines that cannot be crossed.

  

  Isaac Herzog
  • States
  • Lines
  • Crossed

• If you don't use an image now you might have a place to put it in further down the line - and I have a lot of unfinished drawings.

  

  Raymond Pettibon Black Flag
  • Drawing
  • Might
  • Unfinished

• Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand; I stooped, and wrote upon the sand My name, the year, the day. As onward from the sport I passed, One lingering look behind I cast, A wave came rolling high and fast, And washed my lines away.

  

  Hannah Flagg Gould
  • Sports
  • Hands
  • Ocean

• You be the lines, I’ll be the color. Just like the day and night need each other. Life ain’t as great without the other. You be the lines, I’ll be the color.

  

  Carly Pearce
  • Life
  • Night
  • Day

• Straight lines vary only in length, and therefore are least ornamental.

  

  William Hogarth
  • Lines
  • Length
  • Vary

• I had to put it on the line, but it was my Tour to win and mine to lose.

  

  Cadel Evans
  • Sports
  • Winning
  • Lines

• It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes.

  

  Jon Corzine
  • Lines
  • Taxes
  • Absolutes

• Even in motocross, youre struggling to see people pass each other anymore. There seems to be one line in motocross.

  

  Casey Stoner
  • People
  • Struggle
  • Seems

• The lines have definitely blurred between country and pop music.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Lines
  • Pop Music
  • Blurred

• A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

  

  William Strunk, Jr.
  • Drawing
  • Machines
  • Unnecessary

• I don't think there's anywhere to draw the line sexually.

  

  Tairrie B
  • Thinking
  • Lines
  • Draws

• You've got to listen to your body, notice some trends in yourself and do the best you can to be ready when a finish line approaches.

  

  Chael Sonnen
  • Body
  • Ready
  • Approach

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