Line Quotes

4563 Line quotes by 3228 unique authors

I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure. — Pat Conroy
The many of us who attain what we may and forget those who help us along the line we've got to remember that there are… — Jackie Robinson
This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be… — Karl Kraus
I have a website because it's an interesting tool, very - and quite unexpectedly - useful for my work. It's become an archive and a… — John Howe
The famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity of line, simplicity,… — Mary McCarthy
In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind. — Charlotte Turner Smith
I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired… — Damon Runyon
I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know. — Anne Lamott
I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another… — Bob Newhart
A line is length without breadth. — Euclid
A revolution does not march a straight line. It wanders where it can, retreats before superior forces, advances wherever it has room, attacks whenever the… — Mao Zedong
Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be… — Adam Clarke
If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers. — Felix Baumgartner
Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and lowlights, dingers and… — Roger Angell
It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the… — Eddie Van Halen
On 'Honeybabysweetiedoll' I used a Whammy, a Boss OC-3 octave box, a Sustainer and a Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler. That's only on the intro,… — Eddie Van Halen
The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the… — Warren G. Bennis
The atmosphere [in the school lunchroom] is not quite that of a prison, because the students are permitted to talk quietly, under the frowning scrutiny… — Edgar Friedenberg
Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion. — Paul Theroux
First I have a think, and then I put a line around it. — Roger Fry
Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, 'I am Mrs de Winter now! — Alan Bennett
The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier. — Jonathan Raban
By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you… — Jonathan Raban
Taint no use to sit and whine 'Cause the fish ain't on your line; Bait your hook an' keep on tryin', Keep a-goin'! — Frank Lebby Stanton
In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry. — Damon Lindelof

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