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Lines Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- 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…
- Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever.
- Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.
- Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage…
- Where do you draw the line, between love and greed? We never did know, we always wanted more. We want to take it all in,…
- Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.
- There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions…
- Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you…
- We have begun to slam doors, and to throw things. I throw my purse, an ashtray, a package of chocolate chips, which breaks on impact.…
- But we still find the world astounding, we can't get enough of it; even as it shrivels, even as its many lights flicker and are…
- Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? How much is too much, how far is too far?
- I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted the narrative line…
- Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.
More Lines Quotes
- Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration… — Margaret Atwood
- For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its… — Paul Auster
- Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections. — Diane Ackerman
- Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity. — Charles Babbage
- The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in… — Michael Badnarik
- The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves. — Michael Badnarik
- I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women. — Erykah Badu
- I watched 'The Muppet Movie' obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a pretty mean… — Amy Adams
- It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember… — Jim Bakker
- Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines. — Alec Baldwin
- The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what… — James A. Baldwin
- '3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason… — Christian Bale