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Whose lines are mottoes of the heart,Whose truths electrify the sage.

Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.

Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.

Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? How much is too much, how far is too far?

Why is it that the finish line always tends to appear just after the point at which we most want to give up? is it the universe's way of reserving the best for those who can give the most? What I do know, from nature, is that the dawn only appears after the darkest hour.

Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?

Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they're part of a continuous cycle that begins right here. They're not only the ending, but the beginning as well.

With any independent film, it's all about getting everyone's schedules in line and everything together at the same time and just doing the best you can do when that happens - if it happens.

With a nation at war against terrorism and our men and women on the front line defending our homeland from abroad, resources need to be prioritized and allocated properly.

With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job.

With no bottom line, it's hard to know wrong from right. But I ain't ever satisfied.

With pencil there is a tendency to be timid, either using very faint lines or erasing bad lines... Line sketching tends to emphasize the structure of a drawing rather than the nuances of media.

with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long, a long life if possible, and then, right at the end, one could perhaps write ten lines that are good.

Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.

Woody Allen likes to do a lot of master shots. He likes to get the whole thing in one take, and so you could be going along doing a scene, and then the next to last line, all of a sudden, you stumble, and you have to go back to first base.

Writers are nothing but beggars with a good line.

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?

writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts.

Working with Katherine Hepburn, she said to me, "Don't act." She said, "Read the lines. Just be. Just speak the lines." I said, "Okay." She said, "You look good. You got a good pair of shoulders, you got a good head, good face.

Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever.

Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.

Writers can get very angry when an actor says, "I don't know, I don't feel very comfortable with this line." Sometimes though, you're working with a writer for whom that is simply not apt - like Harold Pinter.

Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.

You always want to feel better but I'm good. My thing is once you get to the playoffs, you do whatever it takes. You've got to lay it on the line.

Yeah, getting the company that would help advertise and cross promote the movie on the release was an important factor for New Line, so we went out to a lot of different companies.

Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls: Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.

Yon grey lines That fret the clouds are messengers of day.

Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.

You are being hit with tabloid-journalism bi-lines of what you are doing because you have suddenly become a star.

You are allowed to draw lines even if your feelings are irrational. Part of the marvelous business of being an adult human is that you get to set your own boundaries for whatever reasons you like, without appending a sensible rationale to them.

You better educate yourself. You don't stand in the front of the line unless you're up there because you know everything that's involved.

You can learn to find unknowns in equations, draw equidistant lines and demonstrate theorems, but in real life there's nothing to position, calculate, or guess.

You can do something that walks a line, and invariably, whatever that line is, it will be crossed by people who don't know any better and want to ape the success.

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

You cant drag people from understanding to action. A customer isnt actually at the last mile if youre the one dragging her to the finish line.

You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.

You can see the latest dumbness as just the end of a long line of dumbnesses that have been taking place for thousands of years.

You can't fool me, comrade. You want to put on a cowboy hat and keep lawless bank robbers in line.'' "No time. I have enough trouble keeping you in line.

You can't give up until the finish line, that's something I've learned.

You can't kill us all, human.' He was right. I raised the machine gun a little. 'True, but who's going to be first in line?

You can't measure manhood with a tape line around the biceps.

You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.

You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.

You don't need a pickup line. Just glance at a woman from across the room. Glance - don't stare.

You don't have to be brilliant at everything. You just have to have the courage to put yourself in the line of fire.

You give out the words and then sing them. You give out the words, you know, and the people can hear what you're giving out, and they sing that song or that line and they do the same thing again.

You get to a point where you have to start planning, when you cross that line where you have enough value to get someone's movie made if you attach yourself to it, you have to be very thoughtful and have to plan. When you're starting out, you're willing to do anything.

You get used to the exact amount of space between lines. You write a word and then you write an alternate word over it. You want enough room so you can read it, so the lines can't be too close.