Lines Quotes
5107 quotes by 3629 authors
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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in…
— Margaret Atwood
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For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its…
— Paul Auster
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Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.
— Diane Ackerman
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Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.
— Charles Babbage
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The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If…
— Michael Badnarik
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The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves.
— Michael Badnarik
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I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.
— Erykah Badu
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I watched 'The Muppet Movie' obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a pretty mean Fozzie Bear.
— Amy Adams
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It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember the honor guards,…
— Jim Bakker
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Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.
— Alec Baldwin
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The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did…
— James A. Baldwin
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'3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason is because, like…
— Christian Bale
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There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely…
— Christian Bale
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Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
— Lucille Ball
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I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just…
— Antonio Banderas
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If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your…
— Russell Banks
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I just want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life, because work is my life and the lines can…
— Drew Barrymore
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I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will…
— Saint Basil
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For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.
— Charles Baudelaire
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