Best 2466 quotes in «lines quotes» category

Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.

Don't you expect a rainbow coming out of the tub of bacon strips at the end of the buffet line?

Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.

Don't you ever change your theology to line up with your doubt.

Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, the truest lines or the flashiest ones?

Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.

Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

Drawing takes time. A line has time in it

Draw lines - draw a lot of lines

Drawing is still the bottom line.

Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend they'll last forever.

Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.

Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine.

Duh! So, we're asking you now, what are some of your favorite lines that this warlock brain produced?

During a race where everyone holds their own truth, the finish line is a surprise.

During the 1996 Forum election my election agent, John Dobson, told me that at some stage down the line we were going to have to talk to the IRA and that I was the man to do it. And my reaction was not printable!

During the writer's strike I was walking a line and ran into Jack Black and he said,'We're doing Airborne 2!', and I asked, 'Are you kidding?', and he said, 'Yeah.' I like 'Airborne,' its very pure.

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

Each Act of Parliament intended to address harassment and discrimination has faced objections on the basis of 'you'll never be able to prove...' and 'there's too much legislation already...'. In no case has this line of reasoning ever been sustained.

Each nation has its own peculiar method of work. Some work through politics, some through social reforms, some through other lines. With us, religion is the only ground along which we can move.

Each poem seems to demand its own formal approach. In both drafting and revision, I'll play around with line lengths and stanza formations, eventually letting the poem settle into what I think is its own best form.

Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.

Early man recognised these lines of force and marked them out on the landscape with, well, any old thing, really standing stones, ditches, mounds, tumps, sacred wells, and that sort of thing. And, later on, with churches, market crosses, crossroads, and whatnot.

Earning money is not a sin, and the bottom line is growth.

Eat well, sleep and laugh. When you laugh, the lines go up instead of down.

Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay.

Ed Koch had the best line: if you agree with me nine out of twelve times, you should vote for me. If you agree with me twelve out of twelve times, you should find a psychiatrist.

Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of intellectual endeavour. Truly great programmers are like great poets or great mathematicians - they can achieve in a few lines what lesser mortals can only approach in three volumes

Either I did away with that fear through writing, or in the course of writing, I discovered it was no longer so intrusive or threating. The bottom line is, it's gone.

Embrace an effortless a-line silhouette in the seasons must have indigo shades.

Emma, your granddad’s on the line,” says Artemis, putting her hand over the receiver. “Something about the night bus and he’ll never trust you again?

Ensure your employees understand what your brand stands for so they can be your first line of word-of-mouth advertising.

[Emily Litella line:] Never mind.

Etching will suggest subtle variations of tone, the most delicate shadings, all with black lines, which, as far as lines go, are unsurpassed for sheer beauty.

Even a brilliant research scientist can waste his or her efforts, in [Stephan Hawking's] case on theoretically impossible lines of research, if he or she rejects clear evidence pointing to God.

Even an ugly, abject photograph bears the recording of its making... my goal [is] to create dense objects, works in which many lines of thought converge.

Even in motocross, youre struggling to see people pass each other anymore. There seems to be one line in motocross.

Even if the project requires you to have all the ducks in a line, I can't do that. I don't create way.

Even if abortion were made easy or painless for everyone, it wouldn't change the bottom-line problem that abortion kills children.

Even in the days of the tightest credit in 2008, HELOCs [ home equity line of credit ] and home equity loans were being made.

Even in war there should be lines you didn't cross.

Even the most humane and compassionate of the monotheisms and polytheisms are complicit in this quiet and irrational authoritarianism: they proclaim us, in Fulke Greville's unforgettable line, "Created sick Commanded to be well." And there are totalitarian insinuations to back this up if its appeal should fail.

Everybody's life is either a warning or an example. You've got to decide what you're gonna be and you have to draw a line in the sand.

Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.

Everybody has a wicked side, whether they are six or sixty, and yet so often storytelling draws a sharp line between good and evil.

Everybody sat around thinking about Panasonic, the Japanese electronics account. Finally I decided, what the hell, I'll throw a line to loosen them up. 'The headline is, the headline is: From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.'

Every company should work hard to obsolete its own product line - before its competitors do.

Eventually we have to "settle up" and pay the price for our ethical violations. Just remember the old line that says, "You can pay me now . . . or you can pay me later." Often you can buy some time, but when you "pay later" you'll probably have to pay more.

Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.