Best 2466 quotes in «lines quotes» category

Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.

Everything has gotten vulgar and out of line for children to watch. It's more of a swearing match.

Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.

Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated.

Everything you say; every thought you entertain; and everything you do has a direction, which serves as an advance or a retreat in respect to your pursuit of excellence. Everything, regardless of size or intent, has bottom-line consequences; therefore, everything counts - this is the golden rule of excellence.

Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.

Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics.

Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage.

Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution.

Faviana is a line that girls can feel super-glamorous in. A lot of their designs are kind of based off of what celebrities wear on the red carpet!

Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.

Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

Fear - It's a fine line between that and pushing yourself. You definitely reach new heights when you push. But fear is good. Fear keeps us alive. If we didn't have it, we'd be doing crazy things and getting in sticky situations.

Feelings can be controlled and behavior can be controlled. The line of sin is between the feelings and the behavior. The line of prudence is between the susceptibility and the feelings.

Film-making is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.

Filmmaking, like sex, isn't a polite enterprise. It involves a lot of mess and the bottom line is, if somebody ain't screaming, you're not doing your job.

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.

Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle.

Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.

Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty; Our hard, stiff lines of life with her Are flowing curves of beauty.

[First line] “The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous.

Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

Follow the trend lines, not the headlines.

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.

For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief.

For all the progress, we recognize we're very far from the finish line.

For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.

Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.

For everyone who thought I couldn’t do it… for everyone who thought I shouldn’t do it… for everyone who said, ‘It’s impossible’… see you at the finish line!

For me a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.

For many of us, conversion is an ongoing process and not a onetime event that results from a powerful or dramatic experience. Line upon line and precept upon precept, gradually and almost imperceptibly, our motives, our thoughts, our words, and our deeds become aligned with the will of God. Conversion unto the Lord requires both persistence and patience.

For me, as for so many runners, there really are no finish lines. Runs end; running doesn't.

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.

For me, like when you've put yourself out there emotionally, physically, and you've really put yourself on the line, for me, that means I've really done something.

For me, listening to my breath in between the lines, allows me to be in deep connection to my spirit.

For me, I walk a line of fame and infamy. I walk the line of celebrity and non-celebrity.

For me, it's church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing that line.

For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted.

For me, there's a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer.

For most of the guys, killings got to be accepted. Murder was the only way that everybody stayed in line. You got out of line, you got whacked. Everybody knew the rules.

For the May Day is the great day, Sung along the old straight track. And those who ancient lines did ley Will heed this song that calls them back... Pass the cup, and pass the Lady, And pass the plate to all who hunger, Pass the wit of ancient wisdom, Pass the cup of crimson wonder.

For the first time in history, Congress has 100 women in it. Congratulations. Welcome to modern times, America. It's great having 100 women in Congress. Unless you're in line for the congressional bathroom.

For the first time in my life, I put my body and reputation on the line to stand up for my beliefs and do the right thing. I hope I've encouraged other people to do the same.

For the real winners, there are no finish lines.

Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks.

Franklin Roosevelt had a pretty clear line. Ronald Reagan had a pretty clear line, people who rescue parties.

Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.