Lines Quotes · Page 17

But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their…

— Francis Bacon

Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!

— Cornelia Funke

Equipped with cell phones, beepers, and handheld computers, the 'conspicuously industrious' blur the line between home and office by working anytime, anywhere.

— Jo Ann Davis

A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy…

— W. C. Fields

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

— Taiichi Ohno

Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so, brahmins, is…

— Gautama Buddha

And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native…

— Tim Wise

The fiction Im most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.

— Raymond Carver

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

— Jodie Foster

You are playing a character obviously, and everything you are saying is filtered through that person. It is not you that is…

— Anna-Louise Plowman

Lazy Line Painter Jane - it was an insane way to make a record! It was just in a church hall, no…

— Stevie Jackson

Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity, as opposed to other religions whose tenets are…

— Ann Coulter

I started to write the song. And I was in Gladewater, Texas, one night with Carl Perkins and I said, I've got…

— Johnny Cash

I must still look perplexed because Gale delivers the next line very slowly. “Katniss…he’s still trying to keep you alive.” To keep…

— Suzanne Collins

It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV…

— Aaron Tveit

I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.

— Conor Oberst

Paintings may not have nearly the power to convert people that the printed or spoken word has, but each man has his…

— William Kurelek

The line between inner and outer landscapes is breaking down. Earthquakes can result from seismic upheavals within the human mind. The whole…

— William S. Burroughs

I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

When I'm playing Big Momma, it's so much work that all I want to do, when I'm finished, is go back home…

— Martin Lawrence

I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to…

— Harriet Tubman

I think most of [people] are not very well educated themselves to understand the Winston Churchill line - democracy is the worst…

— Reid Hoffman

There is a fine line between passion and gas.

— Jeff Goldblum

I hope my music sets up the platform for me to be able to do lots of things - to have a…

— Miranda Lambert

But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the…

— Stuart Pearce