Line Quotes

4563 Line quotes by 3228 unique authors

There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help… — Cyril Connolly
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others. — Moliere
It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try out 50, 75,… — James Dickey
You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things by watching a… — Ernest Gaines
Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line. — Theodore Roethke
You put me in a race where there's a lot on the line, especially when people tell me 'you can't win', or 'you're too small',… — Unknown Author
You should know what makes one photo brilliant and another. Why one illustration is instructive and another is banal. Why one blurb is clever and… — Jason Calacanis
When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs.… — Doris Roberts
I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label. I… — George Carlin
The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties on anyone who… — Robert Graves
As a matter of fact we have to take special precautions during a battle to post police, to prevent more unwounded men than are necessary… — Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
Some men of the line regiment who had appeared on our right started running back. I shouted out to them to halt, but they took… — Unknown Author
I could never toe the party line. I'd wear out the carpet crossing the floor. — Hazel McCallion
The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its… — Unknown Author
The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his country when he… — Alexander Berkman
From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its freedom, has been the ultimate… — Simon Schama
To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must… — Anton Chekhov
I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly… — Alexander Woollcott
You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a… — David Foster Wallace
Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much… — Elizabeth Bowen

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