Best 2466 quotes in «lines quotes» category

Our modern ideas of 'functioning' through things are really quite inhuman. We have this idea that no matter what is going on we still have to color between the lines, act normal.

Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God's Word.

Over the years, Céline Labaune has been constantly seeking to source the highest quality truffles; her diligence and expertise truly set her apart.

Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.

Parallel lines meet in eternity but Parallel lives meet for tea

Participant (Productions) is the only production company in town that has a double bottom line: social good plus financial returns. It's too early to tell how our returns are going to look - though all signs are promising - but social good is what we're really after.

Patience is more than a virtue for long lines and slow waiters. Patience is the red carpet upon which God's grace approaches us.

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 he has to discover for himself.

People ask me how did you choose the part and how did you prepare for this work? I just learned the lines and showed up; I don't know what else to say because that's all I know how to do.

People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.

People who are rude to waiters... I don't like that sort of thing. People who take cuts in line... it doesn't fly!

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

People who try to predict the future by extrapolating in a line of more of what exists - they are always wrong.

People who say life is precious don't spend much time on line at the airport.

Perfection seems sterile; It is final, no mystery in it; It's a product of an assembly line.

Pickup lines are a major turn-off, they don't work on me and I tune them out. It's better to just be honest.

Perhaps the worst software technology of all time was the use of physical lines of code [for metrics]. Continued use of this approach, in the author's opinion, should be considered professional malpractice.

Pimpin' ain't dead 'cause I be the life line.

Pickup lines never work...I think someone clever, witty and funny is very attractive.

Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can't Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line. That's going too far.

Photography is about a single point of a moment. It’s like stopping time. As everything gets condensed in that forced instant. But if you keep creating these points, they form a line which reflects your life.

Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.

Playing somebody who's obsessed. Playing somebody who is transgressing, and who is really crossing moral lines and ethical lines. That's always interesting.

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists.

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

Political reporters and political professionals rushed to judgment against Romney because we crave clear, unambiguous story lines.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

POW 369, I should salute you from this heart of mine. And thank you for placing your life on the line.

Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.

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 that and down his throat in a way that he couldn’t recover from. So, especially on the war he was very careful on that line.

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

Professor Brown: 'Since this slide was made,' he opined, 'My students have re-examined the errant points and I am happy to report that all fall close to the [straight] line.' Questioner: 'Professor Brown, I am delighted that the points which fell off the line proved, on reinvestigation, to be in compliance. I wonder, however, if you have had your students reinvestigate all these points that previously fell on the line to find out how many no longer do so?'

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

Promenade was totally driven by the context. The internal relationships of measurement and placement related to the central axis of the site. The placement of the rectangular plates followed a strict logic in that the plates tilted away and towards the center line in an asymmetrical counterpoint. However, the perception of the sculpture contradicts the logic of its relation to the site. As you walk inbetween the plates you see fragments, you see the work in part, you cannot grasp the whole.

Practice your improv more than learn your lines. 'Cause there's no way you'll be able to learn all those lines in a short time. You have to realize what you know and what you don't know - and what you don't know, just come up with three alternate lines or improv that you can put in that spot.

Pray to God and say the lines.

Problems should be solved on the spot, as soon as they arise. No front-line employee should have to wait for a supervisor's permission

Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line.

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

Psychologically, you learn the values that are inherent in the dialogue, and you learn to apply it to the way you read the lines. That's acting. You're not yourself saying those lines, you're somebody else.

Pushing myself against my own will really, because some of this stuff is hard. I don't consider myself to be a great guitar player, so pushing myself as a guitar player or pushing myself as a singer, as a performer, and just riding that fine line between being so hard on yourself that it's counter-productive and being so hard on yourself that nothing is ever good enough is what drives me.

Put temptation on the unenjoyment line.

Python is executable pseudocode. Perl is executable line noise.

Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire's decision if they do it in a professional manner. When they become personal, profane, or violent, they have crossed the line and must be dealt with accordingly.

Raising a child is very much like building a skyscraper. If the first few stories are slightly out of line. no one will notice. But when the building is 18 or 20 stories high, everyone will see that it tilts.

Reading functions as hallucinating a meaning between letters and lines.