Lines Quotes - Page 39

• Pat Fox out to the forty(yard line) and grabs the sliothar(ball), I bought a dog from his father last week. Fox turns and sprints for goal, the dog ran a great race last Tuesday in Limerick. Fox to the 21 fires a shot, it goes to the left and wide......and the dog lost as well.

  Micheal O Muircheartaigh

  Dog, Father, Race

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• When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn. Never trust to prayer without using every means in your power, and never use the means without trusting in prayer. Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary-lines, - and so, boys, go, and God bless you!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Prayer, Giving Up, Mean

  "Old Town Folks". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 39, p. 507, 1869.

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• Up from the dark the moon begins to creep; and now a pallid, haggard face lifts she above the water-line: thus from the deep a drowned body rises solemnly.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Dark, Moon, Water

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• To understand Vers libre, one must abandon all desire to find in it the even rhythm of metrical feet. One must allow the lines to flow as they will when read aloud by an intelligent reader.

  Amy Lowell

  Intelligent, Feet, Desire

  "Dial", January 1917.

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• Unless there is a new mind there cannot be a new line, the old will go on repeating itself with recurring deadliness

  William Carlos Williams

  Mind, Goes On, Recurring

  1948 Paterson, bk.2,'Sunday in the Park',1.

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• now the profile of our country looks a little less hard nosed / but that picket line persisted and that clinic's since been closed / they keep pounding their fists on reality hoping it will break / but I don't think there's a one of us leads a life free of mistakes

  Ani DiFranco

  Country, Mistake, Reality

  Song: Lost Woman Song

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• Instead of thinking in terms of chords, I think of voice-leading; that is, melody line and bass line, and where the bass line goes. If you do that, you'll have the right chord. [These voices] will give you some alternatives, and you can play those different alternatives to hear which one suits your ear. Keep the bass line moving so you don't stay in one spot: if you have an interesting bass line and you roll it against the melody, the chords are going to come out right.

  Paul Simon

  Moving, Thinking, Play

  "Paul Simon's Workshop at the Guitar Study Center" by Richard Albero and Fred Styles, Guitar Player, April 1975.

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• Freud believed that our dreams sometimes recapitulate a speech, a comment we've heard or something that we've read. I always had compositions in my dreams. They would be a joke, a piece of a novel, a witticism or a piece of dialogue from a play, and I would dream them. I would actually express them line by line in the dream. Sometimes after waking up I would remember a snatch or two and write them down. There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue.

  David Mamet

  Dream, Writing, Play

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• Those having the most time to devote to a line of endeavor usually become the most proficient.

  George Ade

  Endeavor

  George Ade (1914). “Ade's Fables”, p.61, Library of Alexandria

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• Nowhere is it ordained that history moves in a straight line.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, History, Straight Lines

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.248, Canongate Books

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• I think the American people have a generous instinct. They understand that we're a nation of immigrants. But if those folks are going to live in this country, they have to be put on a pathway to citizenship that involves them paying a fine, making sure that they are at the back of the line and not cutting in front of people who applied legally to come into the country.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Cutting, Thinking

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• My meetings with [Ahmed Chalabi] were very brief. I mean, I think I met with him at the State of the Union and just kind of working through the rope line, and he might have come with a group of leaders. But I haven't had any extensive conversations with him.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Thinking, Leader

  Remarks By The President On Iraqi Interim Government, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 1, 2004.

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• Well, you know, I think the American people are sacrificing now. I think they're waiting in airport lines longer than they've ever had before.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Sacrifice, Thinking

  "Bush's press conference: the state of our war against terror". www.independent.co.uk. October 10, 2001.

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

  Stefan Zweig

  People, Firsts, Normal

  "Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.

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• Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.

  John Forbes Nash

  Thinking, Rejection, Effort

  "John F. Nash Jr. - Biographical". "Les Prix Nobel" ("The Nobel Prizes 1994") edited by Tore Frängsmyr, Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. 1995.

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• If I'm signing autographs and I see one hundred people in a line I've got to remind myself, "That person is one one-hundredth of my day, but to them I'm their day." You know what I mean? Unless they meet J.Lo later on.

  Clay Aiken

  Mean, People, Hundred

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• We're always pitching ideas and being told "no thank you." No offense taken, because I would so much rather be told the truth that they're not interested and be able to find the right show for that network down the line.

  J. J. Abrams

  Taken, Ideas, Able

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• For though ours is a godless age, it is the very opposite of irreligious. The true believer is everywhere on the march, and both by converting and antagonizing he is shaping the world in his own image. And whether we are to line up with him or against him, it is well that we should know all we can concerning his nature and potentialities.

  Eric Hoffer

  Opposites, Age, World

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting.

  William James

  Failure, Men, Secret

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.129, Library of America

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• an Autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth, the remorseless truth is there, between the lines, where the author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell... the result being that the reader knows the author in spite of his wily diligences.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Cat, Dust

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.55, Chartwell

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• The universities only ought to turn out men who are experts in the Holy Scriptures, men who can become bishops and priests, and stand in the front line against heretics, the devil, and all the world. But where do you find that?

  Martin Luther

  Men, Devil, Experts

  Martin Luther (1970). “Three Treatises”, p.100, Fortress Press

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• Speech as known to us was unnecessary. A fragment of a sentence amounted almost to a long-winded redundancy. A gesture, a grunt, the curve of a facial line--even a significantly timed pause yielded informational juice.

  Isaac Asimov

  Curves, Long, Juice

  Isaac Asimov (2004). “Second Foundation”, p.19, Spectra

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• Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea.... We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Country, Light, Sea

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.2088, Delphi Classics

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• People who are not leaders automatically gravitate toward lines--limitations set by others. Many people are taught this in kindergarten when they are instructed to stay within the lines while coloring. But leaders are more creative than that. They look for options and opportunities. They try to take things in a new direction, or beyond the limit. Progress and innovation are made by people who think without lines.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Opportunity, Thinking

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• "Everything is already there in...." How does it come about that [an] arrow points? Doesn't it seem to carry in it something besides itself? - "No, not the dead line on paper; only the psychical thing, the meaning, can do that." - That is both true and false. The arrow points only in the application that a living being makes of it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Arrows, Doe, True And False

  "Philosophical Investigations" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, (§ 454), 1953.

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