Lines Quotes · Page 38

A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.

— Dean Koontz

Shakespeare has way too many lines. My ideal theatre piece is about 40 minutes long with no interval.

— Daniel Craig

Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

— C. S. Lewis

“Our lives may be separate, but they run in the same direction, like parallel lines.”

— Milan Kundera

My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.

— Alan Lewis

The steeper the mountain the harder the climb the better the view from the finish line ;)

— Paula Abdul

I want to do something in medicine, for sure. I don't know what, exactly, that entails, but something along those lines.

— Nathan Chen

It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.

— Maureen Johnson

It's funny, my agent came up to us and said, "That line, when Nicholas says, 'I'm gonna bust this thing wide open,'…

— Edgar Wright

His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever…

— Hermann Hesse

I feel like I walk a very fine line between wanting someone to be open and vulnerable and honest with me and…

— Alison Rosen

I feel my spot is somewhere between a bass player and a rhythm guitar player. I play with a pick. I play…

— Nikki Sixx

I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from…

— Jared Diamond

It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Gossip harms relationships and that's why it's bad. While we all do it at times, there's a point where it crosses the…

— Rachel Simmons

I just recorded in studios, you know, people pressed the buttons for me. So I just started recording the bass lines and…

— Petra Haden

I swam across the rocks and compared myself favorably with the sars. To swim fishlike, horizontally, was the logical method in a…

— Anonymous

Poetry is like a portrait of a moment or person, and the poem is almost like looking at a photograph; it slaps…

— Warsan Shire

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is not going away. At this point of unimaginable threats on the horizon, this is what hope looks like. In these…

— Tim DeChristopher

I suppose everybody has a mental picture of the days of the week, some seeing them as a circle, some as an…

— Angela Thirkell

By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure…

— Kevin Rudd

Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.…

— Oscar Wilde

[Dario Argento] speaks very broken English - he's Italian, so I'm going to do a very bad Italian impersonation - but he…

— Julie Benz

I just want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life, because work is my life and…

— Drew Barrymore

One thing is to escape from prison, but what the Texas 7 did that night crossed the line they should have never crossed.

— David Travis

Value, whether the result of massed lines, broad strokes, or washes, is the necessary and only tool for modelling form with light.

— Nathan Goldstein

Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That´t what they are.

— Seth Godin

The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he…

— Mignon McLaughlin

It is okay to be yourself, it is okay to color outside the line if that is who you are

— Brad Cohen

Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.

— John Milton

It's rare to work on a series without a writer. If you have a question about a line, then phone calls have…

— Rebecca Mader

Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle.

— David Lynch

My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business

— John Searle

My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

We sold more iPads in the last quarter alone than any PC manufacturer sold in their entire line.

— Tim Cook

I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.

— Ryan Reynolds

... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

The bad guys probably get the better lines, don't they? And they wear less spandex. That would be quite good.

— David Tennant

It seems a fine line between being a matador and being a rodeo clown

— Jase Robertson