Lines Quotes
5107 Lines quotes by 3514 unique authors
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Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success means.. the bottom line.. then…
— Phil McGraw
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Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on…
— Debra Winger
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Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines…
— Eric Ries
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In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are, if you cannot create harmony-even vicious harmony-on the battlefield based on trust…
— James Mattis
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Some people demand a five-line capsule summary. Something you'd read in a magazine. They want you to say, 'This is the story of the duality…
— Stanley Kubrick
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The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.
— Christopher Fry
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For the elements have the property of moving back to their place in a straight line, but they have no properties which would cause them…
— Maimonides
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President Bush deliberately did not apologize for things and that’s because advisers around him, including those there, felt that the press corps would jump on…
— David Gregory
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Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 am saying; you SOB, you'll never pull this one off.
— Clive Cussler
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Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first…
— Johannes Kepler
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Big ideas come from the unconscious. This is true in art, in science, and in advertising. But your unconscious has to be well informed, or…
— David Ogilvy
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He who improvises can never make a perfect line of poetry.
— Titian
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If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used…
— Sharon Olds
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We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected…
— Axl Rose
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Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.
— Huston Smith
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The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect.
— Kresley Cole
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For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the…
— Sergei Eisenstein
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Have it compose a poem -- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the…
— Stanislaw Lem
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Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often has…
— Susan Hill
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Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not…
— Charlie Chaplin
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Wayne Brady, I don’t understand why people keep joking that you’re not black. Wayne Brady, you are BLACK. After all, I only remember you for…
— Anthony Jeselnik
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I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school on Saturdays. It was my first political…
— Roger Stone
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When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case…
— Jung Chang
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Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest…
— Stephen Spender
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Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which…
— Maria Sibylla Merian
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