Lines Quotes · Page 40

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

— James Joyce

Songs are like fish. You just gotta have your line in the water. And it's a bad idea to fish downstream from…

— Arlo Guthrie

You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.

— Socrates

If he takes the option of dropping behind the point where the ball rests, keeping in line with the pin, his nearest…

— Jimmy Demaret

The movement of the emitters of the spectral lines may be deduced on the basis of the Doppler principle.

— Johannes Stark

Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.

— John Ruskin

To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Taiichi Ohno

As the Republican Party has moved farther and farther to the right, I have found myself increasingly at odds with the Republican…

— Arlen Specter

I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the…

— Cynthia Ozick

For me, language and how I use it are very important. I held back on doing a poetry book, walking the fine…

— Sakyong Mipham

There will never be a successful person who, before performing a task, has doubts. Negative thoughts arise from recognizing that somewhere along…

— Nicole Haislett

There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over…

— John Gregory Brown

Your intelligence is so deeply entangled with the social identification that you have taken on, your brains are not working in line…

— Jaggi Vasudev

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the…

— Stephen King

For those of us who can't be active on the front lines - and this will be most of us - our…

— Lierre Keith

And above all, above all, honest work must be rewarded by a fair and just tax system. The tax system today does…

— George McGovern

The waiter just flashed me something that said, "Chew bubblegum." Every morning, when I was about to go to the Oprah competition,…

— Zach Anner

What matters is that they are curious about life, energy, truth, and themselves and that they haven't sold out to the establishment…

— Frederick Lenz

If the human species, or indeed any part of the biosphere, is to continue to survive, it must eventually leave the Earth…

— Frank J. Tipler

The greatest finish line for me was finishing college - it was a pact I made with my mother, during a time…

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

And then we were kissing. My hand let go of the oxygen cart and I reached up for his neck, and he…

— John Green

Sometimes it's not always about what you can see or hear but what's under the hood of a game that's most impressive.…

— Rob Manuel

I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal…

— Ray Charles

“Long time lines trail behind every idea, object, person, pet, vehicle, and event.”

— Lyn Hejinian

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

Stop the bullsh*t. Stop drawing lines in the sand like previous generations [have done].

— Michael Skolnik

Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day…

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

The Budget is in line with our vision for a skilled & digital India, guided by Mantra of 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas'.

— Narendra Modi

Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.

— Justin Kaplan

The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.

— Jack Kerouac

POW 369, I should salute you from this heart of mine. And thank you for placing your life on the line.

— Darryl Worley

It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get…

— Carol Anshaw

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

— Damon Lindelof

You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.

— Anthony Michael Hall

Problems should be solved on the spot, as soon as they arise. No front-line employee should have to wait for a supervisor's…

— Jan Carlzon

In legislation we all do a lot of swapping tobacco across the lines.

— Joseph Gurney Cannon

As more consumers demand less sugar, the food and beverage manufacturers will eventually come into line with what the consumers want.

— James May

f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!

— Alan Bennett

My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine