Lines Quotations

I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line.

You always want to feel better but I'm good. My thing is once you get to the playoffs, you do whatever it takes. You've got to lay it on the line.

But I'm thrilled to be employed, and to work with all my friends and people that I admire. You're just lucky to work - that's the bottom line.

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.

Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life... You see fractals in plants, in flowers. Within the human lung are branches within branches.

We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.

There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for.

I'm giving into my tendency to want to blur and blend the lines between art and life, and privacy and sharing.

People quote lines to me all the time. I'm always surprised - everybody has a favorite movie, and they're always different. I'm always shocked. People stop me on the street and throw lines at me from 'Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight' and 'Deep Space Nine.' 'Shawshank' happens a lot because they play it so much on TV.

I could only speak in the smallest, most intimate circles about the real reasons which made me undertake the changeover of the plants for certain lines of production for I had to expect that many people would not understand me.

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

But there's a difference between having artistic interests and being psychotic. That's more than a fine line of differentiation, and I do see that a bit too much.

I finally realized the happy medium, 'honey blonde' was the correct color and line for me.

Where I've arrived now is the product of mixing the very straight with the very exploratory; there's a fine line between the two, although it tends to be getting straighter and straighter because my songwriting is getting better.

There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking.

I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

We constantly run lines together before every show too, and then there's a long, traditionally long, story to tell the audience every show. Today, we're doing it twice.

It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.

Everything has gotten vulgar and out of line for children to watch. It's more of a swearing match.

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.

Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.

It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.

Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.

As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.

I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some too.

Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.

This year I hope to introduce legislation that would require Power Administrations to list direct and indirect costs associated with ESA compliance as a line item on customer's power bills.

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.

The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.

It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.

I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.

Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.

I spend hours mowing the lawn in absolutely straight lines on my tractor. If it's not right, I do it again.

I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.

I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody.

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

I tend to start with a kernel, a vague concept, and just begin to write things down - notes about a character, lines of dialogue, descriptive passages about a place. One idea fires another. I do that for about a year. By then there's a story, and I'll go on to a complete first draft that sews many of those ragtag pieces together.

In 1940, President Roosevelt called on American industry to become the 'great arsenal of democracy.' Automotive manufacturers in Michigan responded and converted their assembly lines from cars to tanks and helped America win World War II.

After a few drinks, my mom would recite her lines as Portia in 'The Merchant of Venice' from her high school play. But I first discovered Shakespeare properly when I was about five. I used to look for the most complicated books I could find and pretend to be reading them. I wanted people to think I was smart.

There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.

I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is.

I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.

When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say that I wasn't popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn't make it in high school so I started a dance line.

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.

There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.

To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.

Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must.

Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.

On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punch line in a joke or movement or emotion according to an audience.

I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.

Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.

I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.

Remove all the traffic lights, yellow lines, one-way systems and road markings, and let blissful anarchy prevail. I imagine it would produce a kind of harmony.

I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

My process is messy and non-linear, full of false starts, fidgets, and errands that I suddenly need to run now; it is a battle to get something - anything - down on paper. I doodle in sketchbooks: bits of ideas, fragments of sentences, character names, single lines of dialogue with no context.

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning.

Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.

Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay.

I put myself on the line with my truth and my sexuality. That is my choice. My choice

I learn the lines and pray to God.

Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.

Well, in the past, the size of government was one of the more fundamental dividing lines between Right and Left. The Right was supposed to represent the small government philosophy - limited spending, low taxes. Obviously, things have shifted.

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?

Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.

When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.

I learn the lines that JK Rowling or whoever writes them, and say them.

You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.

The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity.

Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets.

Pickup lines are a major turn-off, they don't work on me and I tune them out. It's better to just be honest.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it.

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.

There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.

A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone's scared to take a chance. There's money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.

The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs when speech and practical activity, two previously completely independent lines of development, converge.

Every game I've ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line.

I'm personally looking for artists that are along the lines of today's pop stars. Whether it be a Rihanna or a Justin Bieber or a Kanye West or a Beyonce or a Lady Gaga, I'm looking for talent that's like that, that's what I love.

Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines.

Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.

Everything changes and, somewhere along the line, I'm changing with it.

I believe most things can be said in a few lines.

For me it's absolutely necessary to start from the very beginning. I can't think of coming and contributing something anywhere along the line other than the very start.

The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.

The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

You don't need a pickup line. Just glance at a woman from across the room. Glance - don't stare.

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.

I did go through a period where I was on unemployment. That was my low point: Martha Quinn on line at unemployment, hoping nobody will recognize her.

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

I actually like older horror movies more than newer ones because when I'm watching newer ones, like 'Chucky' or 'Saw' or whatever, I'm like, 'Come on, really, this isn't even good, all it is is blood and knives.' I like when it has a story line, you know? When it's actually a movie.

Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.