Lines famous quotes

In nature there are few sharp lines
-- A. R. Ammons

#Lines

Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.
-- A. S. Byatt

#Vocabulary #Circles #Lines

In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.
-- Abby Sunderland

#Lines #Awful #Moments

To line only for some unknown future is superficial.
-- Abdul Kalam

#Future #Lines #Superficial

You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.
-- Abe Burrows

#Curves #Lines #Ends

There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#War #People #Lines

The toughest part is that when your kid's upset, you're upset. You're rocked until they're not upset. Even when they're not upset, you're like, "I hope that doesn't happen, down the line." You're always nervous because you want your kid to be happy.
-- Adam Sandler

#Kids #Upset #Lines

As I’m so often reminded what a priceless gift my life is, I ache with everything in me to make it count, so that when I finally cross the finish line, I’ll hear the words, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.
-- Adam Young

#Faithful #Done #Lines

I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.
-- Adrien Brody

#Parent #Lines #Grew Up

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.
-- Agnetha Faltskog

#Feelings #Lines #Celebration

I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
-- Aimee Bender

#Space #Lines #Dots

For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.
-- Aimee Mann

#Details #Stories #Lines

Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.
-- Al Hirschfeld

#Creativity #Lines #Way

The poet lives as long as his lines are imprinted on the minds of his readers.
-- Alan Bold

#Long #Mind #Lines

They (Liverpool players) are passing the cup down the line like a new born baby. Although when they are back in the dressing room they will probably fill it with champagne, something you should never do to a baby.
-- Alan Parry

#Baby #Player #Lines

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.
-- Alan Rickman

#Lines #Forget You #Gremlins

We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.
-- Alan Shearer

#Confidence #Games #Lines

I have a problem to do a collection that is a secondary line. I mean, you don’t want to be the stepsister. You want to be Cinderella. Show me one girl who wants to be the stepsister.
-- Alber Elbaz

#Girl #Mean #Lines

You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece.
-- Albert Einstein

#Color #Lines #Want

Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.
-- Alec Baldwin

#Party #Judging #Lines

Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted.
-- Alec Baldwin

#Badass #Lines #This Life

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.
-- Aleksandar Hemon

#Facts #Fiction #Lines

Merv Griffin, who developed Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, had a great line once. I used to personally answer all the mail that came in to Jeopardy! whether it was favorable or unfavorable, and Merv said, You know how I handle the nasty mail? I said no. He just grabbed it and folded it up and crunched it up and threw it in the wastebasket. He said, I don't bother with it.
-- Alex Trebek

#Answers #Lines #Mail

It's not just that that and that exists. It's that that, that, that, and that all exist in the same frame. I'm always looking for something more. You take in too much; perhaps it becomes total chaos. I'm always playing along that line: adding something more, yet keeping it sort of chaos.
-- Alex Webb

#Lines #Too Much #Chaos

I was raised by a very strict, good mother, so I wont be getting out of line anytime soon.
-- Alexa Vega

#Mother #Lines #Strict

Hidden in a long text, there are perhaps three lines that count.
-- Alexander Kluge

#Long #Three #Lines

Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
-- Alexander Pope

#Lines #Taste #Chaos

Anybody who cares about the functioning of democracy should be concerned about the blurring of lines between public and private interests.
-- Alexander Stille

#Democracy #Who Cares #Lines

The great thing is that young talent isn't tied to a how-to model for starting a line; we get to find new ways to go about doing things. And don't let people tell you you can't. Go find a way to show that you can.
-- Alexander Wang

#People #Lines #Way

You've written three lines" "Three carefully considered lines,"Xavier objected. "Quality over quantity, remember
-- Alexandra Adornetto

#Quality #Three #Lines

The line we draw between animals that are socially acceptable and those we find repugnant can be awfully arbitrary.
-- Alexandra Harney

#Animal #Arbitrary #Lines

I love theater work because of the immediate effect your performance has on the audience. And I love the repetition; I love getting on the same stage for more than a month and reciting the same lines, trying to make a small or large step towards an improvement in my acting.
-- Alfred Molina

#Trying #Acting #Lines

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

#Believe #People #Lines

Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line.
-- Alice McCall

#Healing #Long #Lines

People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#People #Lines #Hens

I think Twitter is such a cool thing because it really is a direct line to the fans and for fans back to you, and it's such a new thing. I think in the past there's been usually fan mail and that's really good, but Twitter, it gets an immediate response.
-- Alison Brie

#Thinking #Past #Lines

The story line of the Bible is the story line of God taking the initiative in seeking out a people who are His very own.
-- Alistair Begg

#People #Stories #Lines

The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.
-- Allan Kaprow

#Art #Lines #Should

I'm actively looking at pilots in the very limited pilot season that is about to begin. Lots of work for my clothing line which is extremely exciting.
-- Alyssa Milano

#Lines #Pilots #Exciting

I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.
-- Amanda Palmer

#People #Caves #Lines

But today the quickest way to save your bottom line is to cut off research.
-- Amar Bose

#Cutting #Sea #Lines

MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Death #Moving #Lines

Running has taught me, perhaps more than anything else, that there's no reason to fear starting lines... or other new beginnings.
-- Amby Burfoot

#Running #New Beginnings #Lines

That's the beauty of starting lines: Until you begin a new venture, you never know what awaits you.
-- Amby Burfoot

#Running #Lines #Venture

I watched 'The Muppet Movie' obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a pretty mean Fozzie Bear.
-- Amy Adams

#Mean #Lines #Bears

Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.
-- Amy Lowell

#Art #Lines #Ends

If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.
-- Andre Breton

#Discipline #Lines #Moral

Waiting in line for something mundane is very boring. Waiting for my doctor to see me and waiting for my dentist to see me, yes, that is boring.
-- Andre Leon Talley

#Doctors #Waiting #Lines

Not all lines, not all images, survive their season.
-- Andrei Voznesensky

#Lines

I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.
-- Andrew Bird

#Believe #Writing #Lines

I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources, and in my experience I have rarely if ever met a man who achieved preeminence in money making.. certainly never one in manufacturing.. who was interested in many concerns.
-- Andrew Carnegie

#Believe #Commitment #Lines

A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.
-- Andrew Carnegie

#Integrity #Lines #Ethics

God draws straight with crooked lines.
-- Andrew Greeley

#Catholic #Lines #Draws

What strikes me is that theres a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.
-- Andrew Lloyd Webber

#Differences #Lines #Ingredients

As lines, so loves oblique, may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours, so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet.
-- Andrew Marvell

#Love #Lines #May

The life insurance policies advertised on the radio with the line "You cannot be turned down for this coverage!" are actually saying, " For policies this small, it would cost us more to decide whom to turn down than simply to accept everybody-and make them pay through the nose.
-- Andrew Tobias

#Cost #Noses #Lines

The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.
-- Andrew Vachss

#People #Lines #Vote

Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.
-- Andrew Wyeth

#Lines #Moderation

There's a quote from Hamlet that is my guide... He tells the players not to exaggerate but to hold a mirror up to nature. Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.
-- Andrew Wyeth

#Player #Mirrors #Lines

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.
-- Andy Goldsworthy

#Artist #Energy #Lines

I do understand that when someone gives you a [expletive] load of money, you take that money. Someone like Larry Ellison wants to invest into his event and make it the biggest possible, and he gets stopped by the ATP. If you're a start-up, what would make you want to navigate through that and to go through that firing line? How can you step into tennis with any confidence? It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard of.
-- Andy Roddick

#Giving #Tennis #Lines

Many years from now, what would you like people to line up and thank you for?
-- Andy Stanley

#Years #People #Lines

Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.
-- Ang Lee

#Lines #Sensitivity

It’s more than just saying lines and turning the light on. You have to drive the story—there’s a technical aspect.
-- Angela Bassett

#Light #Stories #Lines

I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.
-- Angela Sarafyan

#Lines #Terrible #Honestly

I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to
-- Anish Kapoor

#Years #Two #Lines

One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.
-- Anita Diament

#Writing #Lines #Littles

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

#Lines #Lawyer #Individual

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

#Color #Blonde #Lines

Sure, I’m gray-shading the line that separates stable and crazy, but the point is, there is a line. And I haven’t completely crossed over to lunatic.
-- Anna Banks

#Crazy #Lines #Gray

If you don't believe in a line, then you come off as the loser.
-- Anna Faris

#Believe #Lines #Loser

It's really important to draw the line on what we do as actors.
-- Anna Friel

#Important #Actors #Lines

I would sooner read five lines of the Bible than hear five masses in the "Church".
-- Anne Askew

#Church #Lines #Christianity

When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]
-- Anne Bishop

#Law #Honor #Lines

There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.
-- Anne Enright

#Dream #Men #Lines

And what amazes me as I hit the motorway is not the fact that everyone loses someone, but that everyone loves someone. It seems like such a massive waste of energy -- and we all do it, all the people beetling along between the white lines, merging, converging, overtaking. We each love someone, even though they will die. And we keep loving them, even when they are not there to love any more. And there is no logic or use to any of this, that I can see.
-- Anne Enright

#White #People #Lines

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

#Choices #Lines #Sexuality

I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.
-- Anne Lamott

#Long #People #Lines

It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn’t see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars.
-- Anne Rice

#Stars #Night #Lines

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.
-- Anthony A. Williams

#Lines #May #World

When you look at how American national freight systems are connected, it's a bit of a patchwork. When you look at how even road systems and rail systems work across state lines, it's a bit of a patchwork.
-- Anthony Foxx

#Lines #Looks #States

People ask me how did you choose the part and how did you prepare for this work? I just learned the lines and showed up; I don't know what else to say because that's all I know how to do.
-- Anthony Hopkins

#People #Lines #Ask Me

Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Actors #Lines #Littles

Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line.
-- Anthony Kennedy

#Cutting #Lines #Captains

I love my dad. He's the biggest thing in my life. He taught me and he straightened me out and he kept me in line. If it hadn't been for him standing behind me and pushing me and driving me, I wouldn't be where I am today.
-- Anthony Perkins

#Dad #Lines #Today

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

#Bipolar #Lines #Want

Here's a viewer's guide to BP media briefings. Whenever you hear someone with a British accent talking about this on behalf of British Petroleum they are not telling you the truth. That's the bottom-line.
-- Anthony Weiner

#Media #Talking #Lines

Art brings out the grand lines of nature.
-- Antoine Bourdelle

#Art #Design #Lines

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

#Lines #Building

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Life #Distance #Lines

There is this great idea about the logic of a politician, along the lines of: "Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.
-- Antony Jay

#Ideas #Done #Lines

For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.
-- Aristotle

#Lines #Riches #Flow

A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.
-- Aristotle

#Science #Lines #Way

Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.
-- Aristotle

#Excellence #Lines #Talent

I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans,
-- Arlen Specter

#Philosophy #Political #Lines

Songwriting is like fishing in a stream; you put in your line and hope to catch something. And I don't think anyone downstream from Bob Dylan ever caught anything.
-- Arlo Guthrie

#Thinking #Fishing #Lines

So its mix and match. Hold your line when you really feel something youre saying is wonderful and you really want to get this point across and prove it to your partner by just throwing it into the tape and letting it speak for itself.
-- Art Garfunkel

#Tape #Lines #Want

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

#Body #Lines #Uniforms

When an investigator has developed a formula which gives a complete representation of the phenomena within a certain range, he may be prone to satisfaction. Would it not be wiser if he should say 'Foiled again! I can find out no more about Nature along this line.'
-- Arthur Eddington

#Giving #Lines #May

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
-- Arthur Erickson

#Expression #Lines #Source