Few Lines Quotes
25 quotes by 24 authors
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Most of my favourite moments in film have been when I've had an opportunity to say something from scratch, something original, whether I jotted down…
— Nicolas Cage
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To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.
— Eero Saarinen
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The abstract, especially in those rough sketches, is very important to me, perhaps because of my advertising background, where layout is so important. Sometimes those…
— Tom of Finland
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Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along
— Charlie Hunnam
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Age is as much an asset for character players as it is for good wine. Human experiences, both good and bad, leave their marks on…
— Strother Martin
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Paintings may not have nearly the power to convert people that the printed or spoken word has, but each man has his part to play…
— William Kurelek
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Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code
— Martin Fowler
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Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of intellectual endeavour. Truly…
— John Naughton
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Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.
— Justin Kaplan
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I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines…
— May Sarton
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Bishop on "At the Fishhouses"At the last minute, after I'd had a chance to do a little research in Cape Breton, I foundI'd said codfish…
— Elizabeth Bishop
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I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.
— Alexander McCall Smith
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I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science Â… it is by this daily striving…
— Marie Curie
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Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend…
— Marlene Dumas
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Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do…
— John Malkovich
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Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and…
— Lewis Thomas
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Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is by the miracle…
— Diane Setterfield
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I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you…
— Ray Bradbury
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Everybody finished the song at different times. Dumbledore conducted their last few lines with his wand and when they had finished, he was one of…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Who Wrote These Few Lines Quotes
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