Lines Quotes
5107 Lines quotes by 3514 unique authors
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She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.
— Liam Gallagher
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It was as if I had worked for years on the wrong side of a tapestry, learning accurately all its lines and figures, yet always…
— Anna Louise Strong
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Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slaver y is…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw…
— Anne Enright
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It would be rare to find a woman who hadn't endured some kind of ridicule for stepping out of line. When the market dictates that…
— Clementine Ford
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The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, 'Global warming is a hoax,' he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of…
— Bernie Sanders
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As a politician - particularly as a politician in a coalition - you quickly realise that compromise is a part of the game. But there…
— Edward Davey
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The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after…
— Oscar Wilde
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When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?
— Tori Amos
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Dear Lord, who made the face of me not all that I would have it be, not really homely, only plain, but strong and patient…
— Unknown Author
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Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words…
— Lucille Clifton
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Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.
— Chrissie Hynde
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There was my mom and I had a wife for a long time and now there is my fianc-e. Eileen is in a long line…
— Unknown Author
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The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles…
— David Foster Wallace
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Or I can choose to force myself to consider the likelihood that everyone else in the supermarket's checkout line is just as bored and frustrated…
— David Foster Wallace
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At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over.…
— David Foster Wallace
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Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry.... Friendship... had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might…
— Robert Burns
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If Christ's message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness, not rules and divisiveness.
— Roland Merullo
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It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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(The mainstream media) are so vested in our first black president not being a failure that it's going to be amazing to watch the lengths…
— Joe Walsh
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The cynical, caustic, acid-tongued New York drama critic Addison De Witt introduces his protege/date of the moment, a bimbo date and so-called actress named Miss…
— George Saunders
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We are engaged in a social, political, and cultural war. There's a lot of talk in America about pluralism. But the bottom line is somebody's…
— Gary Bauer
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There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the…
— Elton John
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I hope for his sake that Tracy's apology will be accepted as sincere by his gay and lesbian coworkers at 30 Rock, without whom Tracy…
— Tina Fey
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An age where you feel like you could love anyone, where you put everything on the line for the smallest of things. Eighteen. Adults say…
— Unknown Author
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