Lines Quotes · Page 69

Theres a very fine line between not listening and not caring. I like to think I walk that line everyday of my…

— Burnie Burns

You don't have to be brilliant at everything. You just have to have the courage to put yourself in the line of…

— Emily Mortimer

Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.

— Rudolf Virchow

Moses, Aaron, Abraham, they're all a waste of time. It's your ass that's on the line.

— Frank Zappa

If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until…

— Jodi Picoult

They’re called poems but in reality they’re lines given to me to hang on to

— John Trudell

A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?

— George Iles

The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts.

— Ferdinand Porsche

Socially, Philadelphia was still a fairly provincial city, its business community governed by the mores of the Main Line. Politically, it was…

— Andrea Mitchell

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy…

— Christopher Hitchens

You've got to love people, places, ideas; you've got to live with mind, body, soul; you've got to be committed; there is…

— Bess Myerson

I was lazy. I would have been a hell of a lot better actress had I taken it more seriously. I never…

— Ava Gardner

How can [actors] learn their lines and be honest in front of 30 people and all the lights? It makes me cry…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

But whatever, we descendants of the Girl Line may not have wealth and proper windows in our drafty homes but at least…

— Miriam Toews

Each superfluous line, each wrongly placed line, any color placed without veneration or care, can spoil everything, that is, the spiritual.

— Theo van Doesburg

It was common enough, to see so much death and want a child. Common, therefore human, and he wanted it all the…

— Ian Mcewan

I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have…

— Jim McDermott

Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in,…

— Helen Keller

Yesterday, I tried to call Northwest Airlines' customer-service line over a couple of hours. I couldn't get through. The recording said, "Due…

— Jay Nordlinger

You do not take a man who for years has been hobbled by chains, liberate him, bring him to the starting line…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Mark Tobey fills his canvases with elliptical, calligraphic lines, beautiful whirls that seem at first glance to be completely abstract and to…

— Rollo May

The idea that humans could be related to ape-like ancestors and the rest of creation was considered subversive. If man was just…

— James Moore

The corporate sector per se is bottom-line oriented. It can be very corrupt and it is not very principled. That is why…

— Mary Robinson

There is only one line of sight that will bring order to all our life and work: a vision of Christ seated…

— Mel Lawrenz

I like all kinds of music. But I would rather people stop caring about lines.

— Chris Stapleton

I'd like to fly. Then I wouldn't have to wait in airport security lines.

— Jim Morris

“The scars of my heart wore ivory and the lines on my mind told crimson lies.”

— Laura Chouette

In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines 74 lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.

— Ludwig Bemelmans

Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.

— Rod Kanehl

Be good to people, be kind to people, show up, read the lines, hit the mark, and go home.

— Pierce Brosnan

I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.

— Barbra Streisand

Her voice was like a line from an old black-and-white Jean-Luc Godard movie, filtering in just beyond the frame of my consciousness.

— Haruki Murakami

If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly." from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death

— Anonymous

I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.

— Baruch Spinoza

The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate.

— Jeffrey Wright

My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out…

— Jane Kenyon

I see wrinkles and lines, and wear glasses to read, which I hate. But I am in a better place in my…

— Bonnie Langford

Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood.

— William Cowper

The so called "progress," "time marching on," is not a straight line, but a pendulum.

— Zygmunt Bauman

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti