Read Between The Lines Quotes

• The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.

  Serge Schmemann

  Art, Reading, Book

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

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Lines, Refuse, Written

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.157

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• Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.

  May Sarton

  Silence, Ifs, Lines

  May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1993”, p.571, Open Road Media

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• People have a responsibility, especially with today's media, to read between the lines.

  Rob Lowe

  Responsibility, Media, People

  "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.

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• Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Book, Reading, Important

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• I ain't the captain of the yacht, but I'm on the boat; I ain't acting what I'm not, knowing that I don't. You niggaz acting like you will, but I know you won't. Man, I read between the lines of the eyes of your brows, Your handshake ain't matchin your smile.

  Beanie Sigel

  Rap, Eye, Men

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• Read between the lines and free your mind

  Immortal Technique

  Free Your Mind, Mind, Lines

  Song: One, 2003

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• As far as people communicating with each other well I think that listening is important. You know really trying to read between the lines of what some body is saying and trying to read their mind a little bit where there at because most people don't really say what they're feeling. Which is the bones of great literature.

  Joy Behar

  Thinking, People, Feelings

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• Is there anybody listening? Is there anyone who sees what's going on? Read between the lines, criticize the words they're selling. Think for yourself, and feel the walls become sand beneath your feet.

  Geoff Tate

  Wall, Thinking, Feet

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

  Henry James

  Book, Reading, Reason

  Henry James (2016). “Henry James: The Complete Novels [The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, etc.] (Book House)”, p.928, Book House

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• Read between the lines, folks, 'cause I'm here to tell you you're not getting the straight story. Ever. You're getting variations of the truth, if you're lucky.

  Rob Lowe

  Lucky, Stories, Variation

  "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.

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• I think that learning to read between the lines of traditional media is one way to stay informed, and also realizing that eventually you're going to have to cross-reference all sorts of different information coming from different sources.

  Immortal Technique

  Thinking, Media, Different

  Source: www.ballerstatus.com

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• I'm a spiritual person, I believe that if you read the bible, you get what you want from it. But, when you actually read it, you see the beauty, spirituality, the joy and love and what makes us godly. And then if you read between the lines of all the same books, you always see the human influence in the writing... it's not all about religiousness, it's about spirituality.

  Carlos Mencia

  Spiritual, Believe, Book

  Source: www.nj.com

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• When people try to read between the lines - critics, they have a job. Their job is to make something bigger than it is.

  Chris Rock

  Jobs, People, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's a bold statement but I think people need to read between the lines.

  Rakim

  Thinking, People, Needs

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• Brother Kendrick Lamar: he's not a rapper, he's a writer, he's an author. And if you read between the lines, we'll learn how to love one another. But you can't do that, I said you can't do that, without loving yourself first.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Brother, Loving Yourself, Rapper

  "Kendrick Lamar’s ‘i’ Brings On The Soul In Catchy First Single" By Ryan Kristobak, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2014.

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• In communist Russia, their major organ was Pravda, which means "truth." The Russians knew how to read between the lines. They didn't take their literature literally.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Mean, Russia, Literature

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Cinema through spectacle, through the entertainment of spectacle, tells the story of many actual problems in life. Because who ever doesn't want to read between the lines can just enjoy the entertainment and the show and can go home happy.

  Sergio Leone

  Home, Cinema, Stories

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• I moved to leave, and Dylan actually grabbed my shoulders. I was so surprised that i forgot to karate-chop his elbows and break his arms.' “I don’t want anything to happen to you,” he said urgently. “What you want does not matter here,” I said slowly and carefully. I hoped Dylan was sensitive enough to read between the lines, to the subtext of: Let go of me or I’ll kill you.

  James Patterson

  Letting Go, Doe, Elbows

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• I was raised on the good book Jesus Till I read between the lines Now I don't believe I ever wanna see the morning

  Laura Nyro

  Jesus, Morning, Believe

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• The whole notion of politics is they always present you with this or this or this. I’ll get a newspaper to read between the lines. Why do you have to adhere to prescribed formulas that they have and people argue over them and they’re all in a box. And you watch Fox claw CNN, and CNN claw Fox. Sometimes I catch a piece of the news and it seems insanity to me. I quietly support candidates. I’m not out there banging a drum for candidates. But I have supported a candidate and it’s a whole other world.

  Mel Gibson

  Other Worlds, Cnn, People

  "Exclusive: Mel Gibson Finally Talks". Interview with Allison Hope Weiner, deadline.com. September 20, 2012.

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• Until the building of Solomons temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover, it is easy to read between the lines that even after that date it was more a pious wish than a practical demand.

  Julius Wellhausen

  Unity, Wish, Demand

  Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

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• For all the idealism that propels him through the story, if you read between the lines you may see that at a moment which he considers a defining point in his life as an activist, he's also set the stage for potential ugliness down the road.

  James Vance

  Stories, May, Defining

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.

  Madeleine Stowe

  Beautiful, Support, Quiet

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