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. Herman Melville American Writer More Herman Melville Quotes 4
How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light. Dar Williams American Musician More Dar Williams Quotes 1
My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'. Alicia Silverstone Actress More Alicia Silverstone Quotes 1
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. Lewis Thomas English Scientist More Lewis Thomas Quotes 1
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. John McGahern Irish Writer More John McGahern Quotes 1
Borderline personality disorder crosses many cultural lines. Sharing a treatment approach to benefit patients and experts in other countries has been exciting and gratifying. Nancee Blum More Nancee Blum Quotes 1
Stay off the roads. Stay away from water. (There) could be live power lines. Mark Goodman More Mark Goodman Quotes 1
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. Thomas Chieffo More Thomas Chieffo Quotes 1
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. Cindy Margolis American Model More Cindy Margolis Quotes 1
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. Christopher Lee English Actor More Christopher Lee Quotes 1
If you remove these lines in the painting, the colors are no longer effective. Henri Rousseau French Ambassador More Henri Rousseau Quotes 1
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. Henri Rousseau French Ambassador More Henri Rousseau Quotes 0
To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text. Henry James American More Henry James Quotes 0
That's one of the reasons I wanted to be an actor, to be like them. And there they were at my table, all talking about how nervous they were, about the lines, and so forth. No matter how big you get, you still have the same kinds of anxieties and so forth. Gavin MacLeod American Actor More Gavin MacLeod Quotes 0
There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another. Edouard Manet French Artist More Edouard Manet Quotes 0
Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning. Richard Neal American Politician More Richard Neal Quotes 0
It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how. Holly Near American Musician More Holly Near Quotes 0
Eventually I found it had been working all along-but didn't show anything on screen until it had the first full page of text. I inserted 30 new lines, and suddenly my toy said 'hEllO woRlD'. An hour later I understood alphabet shifting rather better! Graham Nelson English Mathematician More Graham Nelson Quotes 0
I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why. Maureen O'Hara Irish Actress More Maureen O'Hara Quotes 0
Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided. Leo Ornstein American Composer More Leo Ornstein Quotes 0
Because I was newly pregnant, I was sick as a dog, yet I knew all my lines from a year before. Gwyneth Paltrow American Actress More Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes 0
Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred. Jason Patric American Actor More Jason Patric Quotes 0
If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail. Jean-Marie Le Pen French Politician More Jean-Marie Le Pen Quotes 0
When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines. Jean-Marie Le Pen French Politician More Jean-Marie Le Pen Quotes 0
The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency. Herbert Read English Poet More Herbert Read Quotes 0