Lines Quotes · Page 65

Certainly, as a guitarist, I was aware of descending chromatic lines and arpeggios long before 1968.

— Jimmy Page

God, three weddings in one day, I'm going to be in Spanx for 12 hours. My elastic line is gonna get infected again.

— LIZ

When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades,…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I think every artist strives for a record that crosses all energy, lines, boundaries or languages or barriers.

— Estelle

I never wanted people to laugh at me. I never wanted the funny lines. I wanted the straight lines.

— Demond Wilson

People have a responsibility, especially with today's media, to read between the lines.

— Rob Lowe

Whose lines are mottoes of the heart,Whose truths electrify the sage.

— Thomas Campbell

The fiction I'm most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.

— Raymond Carver

If people ask me about it, I think it would be great for me to be like, 'Look, [Kanye West] called me…

— Taylor Swift

You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think,…

— Gillian Flynn

Each poem seems to demand its own formal approach. In both drafting and revision, I'll play around with line lengths and stanza…

— Allison Joseph

The key to winning, as always, was looking as if you had every right, nay, duty to be where you were. It…

— Terry Pratchett

Venus [Williams] has an amazing line; I love her collection. I'm always at her office. She has an interior design company and…

— Serena Williams

If you have the emotion, it infects you and the audience. If you don't have it don't bother; just say your lines…

— Sanford Meisner

Now, I do come from a part of the country where the people say that the only thing in the middle of…

— Blanche Lincoln

Look at the commercial and industrial development that is going on along the 101. A lot of the infrastructure - the sewer…

— David Schweikert

How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism.…

— Ernest Hemingway

The American servicemen and women of the Guard and Reserve leave their jobs, their spouses and their children to wear the uniform…

— Mitt Romney

Faced with the immensity of the universe, Job realized that there are limits to man's rationalizing, that we cannot find where the…

— Ralph Washington Sockman

I read the paper every day. There are certain subjects that will catch my attention. I have an entire file of articles.…

— Sue Grafton

God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people…

— John Piper

The reason the lawyers lead the line to the guillotine or the firing squad is that, while law is supposed to be…

— Fred Rodell

The truth is that man is one individual with two aspects, just like one line with two ends. If you look at…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Some find Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran’s poetry preachy and moralizing, but I find it plenty enlightening—it’s hard to object to the melodic,…

— Khalil

A line comes into being. It goes out for a walk, so to speak, aimlessly for the sake of the walk.

— Paul Klee

Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it's true.

— Byron Katie

Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

You don't want to line up on the blocks and know you have not done everything you possibly can.

— Stephanie Rice

I grew up going to rock shows, and the lines of rock n' roll cross over with wrestling so much.

— Baron Corbin

I actually never got in a play in school. My teacher said I never learned my lines.

— Sissy Spacek

I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.

— Patricia Clarkson

Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.

— Mark Twain

You know how a lot of people say they could go crazy? Well, I feel I live very close to that line.

— Hope Davis

In many lines of wok, it isn't how much you do that counts, but how much you do well and how often…

— William Feather

Blurring the line between friendship and attraction was a surefire to lose a friend.

— Emily Giffin

“If a palmist grasp my palm, and look into it, without seeing a single line, what would he read?”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave…

— Toni Morrison

She was a large, disordered woman, like a child's drawing that didn't stay within the lines.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.

— C. S. Lewis

The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand

— Italo Calvino