Lines Quotes

All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever present perils of life.

For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn't have come till 1970.

Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.

Stay off the roads. Stay away from water. (There) could be live power lines.

How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.

My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'.

Borderline personality disorder crosses many cultural lines. Sharing a treatment approach to benefit patients and experts in other countries has been exciting and gratifying.

Through the teaching of hands-on tools, the safety of the machinery, I teach them how assembly lines work in manufacturers. They get that knowledge, then they take that knowledge and produce a project.

There was a gap of seven years between the first and second Dracula movies. In the second one as everybody knows, I didn't speak, because I said I couldn't say the lines.

When you're modeling you're actually acting for the camera and the photographer. It's more fun, too because there are no lines to memorize.

If you remove these lines in the painting, the colors are no longer effective.

The interest and the feelings are not due to colors; the lines of a painting that move us move us even more in a print.

To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.

I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform.

In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.

Hidden in a long text, there are perhaps three lines that count.

The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!

Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along.

I went along to the audition and I had one page of lines, and I didn't think it went particularly well.

As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the six brigades by heavy skirmish lines, to be followed by stronger supporting lines.

It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea.

For me, it's a bigger challenge, it's much harder to do and much more rewarding to do well, then just to think up stuff of your own, hit or miss, because you've got to see to it that you don't torpedo any of his punch lines.

Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way.