Lines Quotes · Page 48

At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.

— James Fenton

I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.

— James Fenton

My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread

— Rafael Palmeiro

Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers.

— Ken Wilber

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

— Arlen Specter

How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you…

— William Morris Hunt

That's what you do when the curtain is falling--you give the line that the audience wants to hear.

— Rick Yancey

All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.

— David Hawkins

I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate…

— Charles Baudelaire

If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost.…

— Tom Stoppard

Bruce Smith is a tender master of music, and beautiful lines, and complex thoughts, and fascinating wild personal and cultural references.

— Gerald Stern

The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final…

— Lurlene McDaniel

Instead of basic roads and bridges, infrastructure spending will go to bloated unions overseeing pie-in-the-sky construction projects like the $30 billion-plus high-speed…

— Michelle Malkin

Psychologically, you learn the values that are inherent in the dialogue, and you learn to apply it to the way you read…

— Angela Lansbury

I'm a member of that half of the human race which is inclined to divide the human race into two kinds of…

— John Perry Barlow

Faviana is a line that girls can feel super-glamorous in. A lot of their designs are kind of based off of what…

— Ashley Benson

I work on two levels. I occupy my conscious mind with things to do, lines to draw, movements to organize, rhythms to…

— Bridget Riley

Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Alexander. You must…

— Julian Barnes

God has given us prayer as a wartime walkie-talkie so that we can call headquarters for everything we need as the kingdom…

— John Piper

When I was about 17, I didn't speak. English was like a foreign language. I'd just grunt. The only time I talked…

— Jack P. Shepherd

Of course, an exhausting day at sail lines and nets left little energy to expend on running or laughing. Perhaps that was…

— Anne McCaffrey

His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern…

— Walter de La Mare

I'm going to do everything I can to get myself elected, but that's not enough. I'm going to try to help move…

— Hillary Clinton

There's real "right brain" creativity that goes into all of the organizational processes that a company utilizes and must continually reinvent in…

— John Kao

Almost every officer is going to put their life on the line at some point in their career.

— Peter James

If you know how to get fun out of the so-called discomforts, then you should know you are on the right lines.

— Nirmala Srivastava

The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.

— Madeleine L'Engle

The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth.

— Todd Tiahrt

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain…

— Christine Lavin

It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.

— Gil Kane

My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.

— Al Capone

She must have been debating staying in the line or forcing me to run home and change.

— Kiera Cass

It's a bold statement but I think people need to read between the lines.

— Rakim

Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.

— Wendell Berry

In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.

— Anonymous

Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics.

— Albert Einstein

All of us assign different values to things, and not all of those values are going to line up with others'.

— Carolyn Hax

“Heroes don't stand in line, they set out alone into the unknown and lines form behind them.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Prayer doesn't sound like a cool hot topic that would cause people to rush to the theatre, stand in line, and buy…

— Stephen Kendrick

Sometimes the lines in a song are lines you wish you could text-message somebody in real life,

— Taylor Swift