Lines Quotes

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

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • People
  • Chaos
  • Collectivity

• 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

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

  

  Isaac Herzog
  • States
  • Lines
  • Crossed

• The line between education and brainwashing is paper thin

  

  Yana Toboso
  • Education
  • Paper
  • Brainwashing

• Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one given form and one philosophy: that which is canonized quickly dies of obesity, of entropy.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Straight
  • Mechanisms
  • Lifeless

• I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, "doesn't play well with others."

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Work
  • Play
  • Wells

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

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Shows
  • Exciting
  • Britain

• Honda opened its first assembly line in Lincoln in November 2001.

  

  Mike Rogers
  • Lines
  • November
  • Assembly

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Taiichi Ohno
  • Time
  • Value
  • Waste

• Make a decision and then make the decision right. Line up your Energy with it. In most cases it doesn't really matter what you decide. Just decide. There are endless options that would serve you enormously well, and all or any one of them is better than no decision.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Energy
  • Decision
  • Cases

• 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

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

  

  Brett Lee
  • Lines
  • Swing
  • Lengths

• Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood.

  

  William Cowper
  • Mood
  • Strange
  • Contrast

• I haven't seen a new football play since I was in high school. You have just so many holes in a line and you have eleven men playing, and there's only so many ways you can go through those holes, and those ways have been used for forty, fifty years.

  

  Red Grange
  • School
  • Play
  • Football

• 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

• 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

• One arranges flowers as the spirit moves you; to obey some inner prompting to put this colour with that, to have brilliance here, line there, a sense of opulence in this place or sparseness in that; to suit your surroundings, your mood, the weather, the occasion. In a word, to do as you please, just as, if you could, you might paint a picture.

  

  Constance Spry
  • Moving
  • Spirit
  • Flower

• If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Great
  • Help

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

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Lines
  • Pop Music
  • Blurred

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

  

  Cadel Evans
  • Sports
  • Winning
  • Lines

• If a news camera shows up, people will line up, they want to be seen. But at the same time they want both to be chosen and not singled out. I think that is an endless struggle within most.

  

  Celeste Ng
  • Struggle
  • Cameras
  • Chosen

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