Lines Quotes

• At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Law
  • Ignore
  • Peril

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Harry Morgan
  • Responsibility
  • Actors
  • Lines

• 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

• 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

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

  

  William Hogarth
  • Lines
  • Length
  • Vary

• 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

• 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

• We spoke about a number of things from conventional swing to reverse swing and different lines and lengths.

  

  Brett Lee
  • Lines
  • Swing
  • Lengths

• 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 line between education and brainwashing is paper thin

  

  Yana Toboso
  • Education
  • Paper
  • Brainwashing

• You had to stand in line to hate him.

  

  Hedda Hopper
  • Hate
  • Lines

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

  

  Cadel Evans
  • Sports
  • Winning
  • Lines

• 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

• 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

• You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Lines
  • Unusual
  • Revealing

• However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Shows
  • Exciting
  • Britain

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Tairrie B
  • Thinking
  • Lines
  • Draws

• And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value-added wastes.

  

  Taiichi Ohno
  • Time
  • Value
  • Waste

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