Lines Quotes - Page 27

• When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Together, Looks, Syntax

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• My goal is to be a household name, and when I do that, I want to help other girls become models, and maybe even launch a fashion line with my mom, like Beyonce did with her mother. My mom has such a good eye, and it's always been a dream of hers.

  Chanel Iman

  Girl, Mom, Mother

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• In America, we're trying to find a peaceful solution in the Middle East, and we're not going to be divided along any lines.

  Darrell Issa

  Religious, America, Peaceful

  "NewsNight Aaron Brown", www.cnn.com. December 12, 2001.

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• Don't be late. Learn your lines. Be good to people. Treat people nice.

  Rhys Ifans

  Nice, People, Treats

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• And all the zig-zags and lines in my hair? I used to do that myself. I just thought it was cool that you could actually do that with your hair.

  Vanilla Ice

  Hair, Used

  "The GQ+A: Vanilla Ice". Interview with Nate Erickson, www.gq.com. April 5, 2013.

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• I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.

  Kate Jackson

  Dark, One Day, Shadow

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

  Neil Jordan

  Cutting, Stories, Variation

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• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  Rachel Johnson

  Distance, Believe, Two

  Rachel Johnson (2009). “In a Good Place: A Novel”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it.

  Thomas Jane

  Character, Actors, Able

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• What you experience in the army, aged 18 to 21, is what you take through all your life. You cross invisible lines: you shoot someone, get shot, break into people's houses. It's naive to think you won't carry anything into your life.

  Etgar Keret

  Army, Thinking, People

  "Life at a louder volume". Interview With Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2007.

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• Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.

  Hari Kunzru

  Phones, Two, People

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• The atmosphere [in the school lunchroom] is not quite that of a prison, because the students are permitted to talk quietly, under the frowning scrutiny of teachers standing around on duty, during their meal-they are not supposed to talk while standing in line, though this rule is only sporadically enforced.

  Edgar Friedenberg

  Education, Teacher, School

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• Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate.

  John Maeda

  Focus, Razors, Corporations

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• I arm myself with punch lines and a big old water gun.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Philosophy, Gun, Water

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• Why should I worry, why should I care? And even when I cross that line, I got street savoire faire.

  Billy Joel

  Philosophy, Worry, Care

  Song: Why Should I Worry?

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• The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line.

  Ray Davies

  Rock And Roll, Corporations, Musician

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• Through the years as the fire starts to mellow, burning lines in the book of our lives. Though the binding cracks and the pages start to yellow, I'll be in love with you.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Romantic, Love You, Book

  Song: Longer, Album: Phoenix

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• Dancin' in the welfare lines.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Dancing, Welfare

  Song: Weasel and the White Boys Cool, 1990

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• I've got the hungries for your love and I'm waiting in your welfare line.

  Buck Owens

  Waiting, Welfare, Endearment

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• One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.

  Fritz Kreisler

  Eye, Mind, Way

  Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.8, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• If I'm cooking dinner for my hubby or designing a line or selling on QVC, I try to do it in an authentic way. To speak to people like I want to be spoken to, to be a voice for people who don't have one and to give them things they need and love.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Cooking Dinner, Voice, People

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• My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so embarrassed. The director made me work backstage for the rest of the performance.

  Katie Leclerc

  School, Night, Years

  "When I Was 17: Katie Leclerc" by Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. May 26, 2012.

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• I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.

  Mary MacLane

  Walt

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler”, p.123, Petrarca Press

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• To illustrate to the Indians the advantages the white race had in the telephone I divided a body of warriors from Sitting Bull's camp into two parties and had them talk to each other over the telephone line.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Party, Warrior, Race

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• I think love is the through line and it's universal and it doesn't matter what period of time, time or place, or people, that's something we all connect to. That's the thin thread that I think keeps it altogether.

  Rachel McAdams

  Love Is, Thinking, People

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