Lines Quotes · Page 33

The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.

— Bette Davis

Ethics and I had crossed paths recently, and I’m not sure that I fell on the right side of the morality line.

— S.C. Stephens

Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little…

— Anthony Hopkins

There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war.

— Carl von Clausewitz

When you take a pause before delivering your punch line, you will be using silence as a creative entity in itself.

— Franklyn Ajaye

I desire my children to be educated south of the Mason Dixon line and always to retain right of domicile in the…

— J. E. B. Stuart

Chivalry is like a line of credit. You can get plenty of it when you do not need it.

— Nellie L. McClung

I come from a long line of matriarchal women, and my greatest teachers were my mothers.

— Erykah Badu

Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these…

— John Moody

Those dabs of paint and lines become art when form and flow are created out of lower-level perceptual elements. When they combine…

— Daniel Levitin

My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic,…

— Anonymous

I was educated in line with the basic premise: work work work. You are only a valuable human being if you work.…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you…

— Madeleine Albright

There'd never been a clothing line made by a young woman like me: a multiethnic woman who has one foot in Gucci…

— Kimora Lee Simmons

I do feel haunted by some of the letters and the suffering people have endured. But I keep in mind that the…

— Emily Yoffe

The Color Purple received four Tony nominations; the play is highly looked at and it's a must see for everyone. I just…

— Heather Headley

I think a lot of people become actors because they have a great reservoir and repertoire of many different emotions they felt…

— Maria Bello

For - to say a few words on technique - whereas the curved line was used predominantly for reasons of beauty, (Phidias,…

— Theo van Doesburg

I love the idea of longevity in this career. But [producing] is not about, "Let me do this because this might happen…

— Charlize Theron

I love live theater. I get my rocks off by doing stand-up, and I am the only actor. But to show up…

— Robert Klein

People have really different methods of working. Some people prepare tons and tons of material, literally on paper, and they will use…

— Jim Piddock

A triumphalist corporate capitalism, free at last of the specter of Communism, has mobilized its economic power to relentlessly marginalize all nonmarket…

— Ellen Willis

I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past. I think we…

— Angela Davis

If tone is granted to be subjected to control, why not line also, which has equal emotional significance? And if line, why…

— William Mortensen

I think when hundreds of thousands of lives are on the line, you might have to set aside some principles.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

The true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being in love with their destiny.

— Hannah Arendt

You know if something is good because you remember the lines because it is written so well. The rhythm of the speech…

— Rob James-Collier

Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I…

— Dennis Lehane

You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line…

— Terry Eagleton

The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet.

— Bruce Feiler

We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside.

— Tom Hodgkinson

I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.

— Ben Stein

The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.

— Charles Stanley

When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line…

— Robert Frank

What would they say if they knew I sit for two months on six lines of poetry?

— Lorine Niedecker

Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.

— Mary Heilmann

When you cross the line and you've won the race, to me, it's an amazing feeling.

— Joey Logano

Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.

— Andrew Davies

Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.

— Zainab Salbi

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

— Andrew Bird