Lines Quotes

• It's hard for a comic to be joking when your lines can't be funny.

  

  Steven Michael Quezadaun
  • Funny
  • Lines
  • Joking

• Words? I tell you not to write me letters; I command you. Is it not enough to want you so in vain, but you send me what evokes you here before me - this paper, all along whose lines your hand has lain?

  

  Anne Reeve Aldrich
  • Lines
  • Letters
  • Evokes

• Put temptation on the unenjoyment line.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Politics
  • Temptation
  • Lines

• My father - I once asked him what was his greatest achievement. He said his greatest achievement was that he fought in five wars in the infantry, always on the front line, and never hurt anybody.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • War
  • Father
  • Hurt

• They didn't understand that she held his heart, held it so utterly that there was nothing he wouldn't do, no line he wouldn't cross to keep her safe.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Heart
  • She
  • Safe

• As soon as you Botox your smile lines away, you lose part of your identity.

  

  Nigel Barker
  • Identity
  • Smile
  • Botox

• If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine . . .

  

  Nick Drake
  • Song
  • Conversation
  • Lines

• Perhaps the worst software technology of all time was the use of physical lines of code for metrics. Continued use of this approach, in the author's opinion, should be considered professional malpractice.

  

  Capers Jones
  • Technology
  • Opinion
  • Worst

• He's the type of bloke you would want to have on your side. When you see an Indian side with Ganguly in the line-up, you know it's game on. You don't have to like or dislike him. You have to respect him.

  

  Steve Waugh
  • Games
  • Sides
  • Type

• [John Kerry] actually stole my line because when I became Secretary of State, I said, 'I hope my heels will fill Warren Christopher's shoes.' So he reversed that.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Hope
  • Shoes
  • States

• Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them.

  

  Gary Saul Morson
  • Lines
  • Quotations
  • Thrust

• Its very hard trying to talk to an actor about how they should deliver lines, or cut their hair, unless it comes from a place of a strong point of view.

  

  Tony Scott
  • Trying
  • Strong
  • Hair

• Not all lines, not all images, survive their season.

  

  Andrei Voznesensky
  • Lines
  • Images
  • Survived

• Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Stories
  • Stills

• If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Looks
  • Lines
  • Remarkable

• We don't know if there is a 'Tremors 6.' If there is, we're not sure what that is yet. I know what I would like to see as 'Tremors 6.' Because I've been with this a long time. I have specific desires along those lines. But clearly, we have left the door open for a sequel.

  

  Michael Gross
  • Time
  • Know
  • Desires

• 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

• For good-intentioned people making decisions, there's no such thing as a bad choice. So it doesn't matter what you choose. Choose something, then deliberately line up with the choice you make. This is the art of alignment and allowing.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Decision
  • Choices
  • Matter

• You should know the lines, be prepared, get sleep, and have the script analyzed so you're ready to rock and roll.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Sleep
  • Ready
  • Prepared

• What treasures lay hidden between the lines where few tread? What awaits those who step out into the wild?

  

  Cory Trepanier
  • WIld
  • Treasures
  • Hidden

• Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or wealth.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Artist
  • Garden
  • Wealth

• I was thinking about that, about what lines you'd be willing to cross if someone took your loved one or child.

  

  Rick Yune
  • Lines
  • Cross
  • Took

• This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Kind
  • Feels

• 'Learn your lines.' I want that on my gravestone.

  

  John C. McGinley
  • Learn
  • Lines
  • Gravestone

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