Lines Quotes · Page 60

The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

— Christopher Fry

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.

— Edward Heath

'Global warming' is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible.

— Thomas Sowell

If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter.

— Charles Bukowski

I'm a quitter. I come from a long line of quitters. It's amazing I'm here at all.

— Dylan Moran

We'll know for the first time If we're evil or divine We're the last in line.

— Ronnie James Dio

I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.

— King Krule

When a film is good, the lines between single-screen and multiplex blur.

— Abhay Deol

To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective…

— Anton Chekhov

When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use…

— Howard Rheingold

A tree root won't get into your sewer line unless there's something already wrong with your sewer line. I know most people…

— Thomas J. Hylton

I had a very linear story line for this particular play, and I wanted to open the piece up a bit, so…

— Philip Kan Gotanda

I don't believe that just because one person is born on one side of some imaginary line and another person is born…

— Ben Cohen

So much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden…

— Bill Delahunt

Teaching and writing have tended to proceed on parallel lines, but there have been times when there was indeed carry-over from the…

— Adam Kirsch

But when I saw the cursive grace of Guido Rahr's fly line writing prayers I couldn't read to the river gods of…

— Jessica Maxwell

"Masters of War" [of Bob Dylan] wasn't peacenik, anti-war stuff. With its minor key and uncompromising final lines ("And I hope that…

— Jay Michaelson

It is possible to evangelize the world in this generation, if the Church will but do her duty. The trouble is not…

— Griffith John

I got the breaks. Starting from nowhere in the corn belt, I helped edit a country weekly, then was jack-of-all-departments on an…

— George Ade

When you read the [Twilight series], it's like saying 'Edward Cullen is so beautiful I creamed myself'. I mean every line is…

— Robert Pattinson

I run my company according to feminine principles, principles of caring, making intuitive decisions, not getting hung up on hierarchy or all…

— Anita Roddick

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

— William Kurelek

Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped…

— Steve Toltz

If I could give you one line about writing worship songs, it would be ‘Sing your prayers.’

— Paul Baloche

I do get antsy if I haven't got lines to learn, a character to play. But yes, I do take holidays.

— Mark Strong

The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the…

— Henry Rollins

“...though she cannot make cannot make the shuddering lines stay put.”

— Mary Szybist

An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that have been permanently discontinued.

— Irvin S. Cobb

I put everything in that last lap, it was very emotional when I crossed the line. It was all I had, I…

— Sebastian Vettel

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

— Gordon Parks

For me, Twitter has given me a direct line to the world - it gave me an opportunity to be like, "This…

— Laura Benanti

I’ve never had any objection to appearing depraved or villainous. But I draw the line at looking like a prize idiot.

— Lisa Kleypas

I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the…

— Ian Mckellen

When I feel like I'm renowned enough, I'd love to do a heritage-type line, but that takes time.

— Tinie Tempah

When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other…

— Tori Amos

What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is…

— Earle Brown

We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.

— Elisabeth Elliot

Ultimately there is no dividing line between Main Street and Wall Street. We will rise or we will fall together as one…

— Barack Obama

It is not how you start the race or where you are during the race-it is how you cross the finish line…

— Robert D. Hales