Lines Quotes - Page 4

• See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Men, Play, Political

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1862). “The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes”, p.248

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• I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines and have my work done on time and to make it the very best it could be.

  Jan Karon

  Color, Editors, Fiction

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• You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Names, Acting, Done

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• There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Sick, Laughing, Hearing

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• I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated.

  Barbara Hershey

  Character, Thinking, People

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• Charity in the theatre usually begins and ends with people who have a play opening the week following one's own. Their unlikely benevolence is not so much a purity of heart as the knowledge that they face a firing line with rifles aimed in exactly the same direction.

  Moss Hart

  Heart, Play, People

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.

  Louise Erdrich

  Suicide, Jokes, Ifs

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• The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.

  Elihu Root

  Real, Civilization, Progress

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• You think that the only thing that counts is the bottom line! What a presumptuous thing to say. The bottom line is in heaven.

  Edwin Land

  Thinking, Heaven, Bottom

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• From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound.

  Nicholson Baker

  Training, Signatures, Sound

  "A life in writing" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2009.

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• It is my hope that the number of stem cell lines available for federally-funded research will be expanded so that the government can continue to participate in this vital research and provide hope to the millions of Americans with diseases that might be cured.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Government, Cells, Numbers

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• Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.

  Philip Johnson

  Wall, Talking, Rooms

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• I always change my words in everything I do. I make the language fit, because I know the character from the inside out. Often character actors are not in a position to do that, but I do it. I don't change any cue and I never change anybody else's lines, but I make my own words fit my mouth.

  James Cromwell

  Character, Actors, Mouths

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• 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

  Important, Musician, Singers

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• You really have to work hard to create a three-dimensional character. You have to rehearse and explore and take your time. You can't just memorize your lines and do it on the fly.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Hard Work, Character, Three

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, 'I am Mrs de Winter now!

  Alan Bennett

  Depression, Cheer, Winter

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• By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you had failed in Detroit you might yet succeed in Seattle - and that if you'd succeeded in Seoul, you could succeed even better in Seattle... Seattle was the coming place. So I joined the line of hopefuls.

  Jonathan Raban

  Taken, Cities, Detroit

  Jonathan Raban (2011). “Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America”, p.303, Vintage

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• Taint no use to sit and whine 'Cause the fish ain't on your line; Bait your hook an' keep on tryin', Keep a-goin'!

  Frank Lebby Stanton

  Perseverance, Bait, Hook

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• I've had people say to me, 'Look at the sky, the fields, the ocean, the beautiful sunset. Isn't that proof positive of God?' Following that line of thought, look at the magnificent rainbows after a big rainstorm. Isn't that proof positive that God is gay?

  Ray Romano

  Beautiful, God, Ocean

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• Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

  Alfred Nobel

  Believe, People, Lawyer

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• Welcome to 'Who's Line Is It Anyway' the show where everything's made up and the points don't matter. That's right the points are just like Canada.

  Drew Carey

  Funny, Humorous, Matter

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• The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Inspirational, Forever, Labyrinth

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• When we hold a photo negative up to the light all objects are reversed. Black is white, white is black. Moreover, the character lines of any face in the picture are not clear. Once placed into the developing solution, what photographers call "the latent image" is revealed in the print-darkness is turned to light; and, lo, we have a beautiful picture.

  Catherine Marshall

  Beautiful, Character, White

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• MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Death, Moving, Reluctance

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2460, Delphi Classics

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• Well you've got a job and I've heard it before, and you're in the same line as Pussy Galore.

  Steve Miller

  Friendship, Jobs, Pussy

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