Line Quotes - page 2

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. (Allen Ginsberg)
Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals? View quote
Ogden Nash
Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it. View quote
Isaac Newton
One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile. View quote
Walter Chrysler
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. View quote
Elihu Root
Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line. View quote
Benoît Mandelbrot
I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born. View quote
Charlie Parker
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. View quote
Charlie Parker
It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another in either an election or horse race. It's the horse that comes in first at the finish line that counts. (Harry S. Truman)
The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form? View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. View quote
J. Michael Straczynski
I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time. View quote
Albert Pujols
The straight line is godless and immoral. View quote
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art. View quote
J. M. W. Turner
The funniest line in English is "Get it?" When you say that, everyone chortles. View quote
Garrison Keillor
The players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, 'Would he had blotted a thousand.' View quote
Ben Jonson
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. View quote
Maya Angelou
Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business. (John Searle)
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like. View quote
Napoleon Hill
The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line. View quote
Leo Burnett
There's a line in the picture where he snarls, "Nobody tells me what to do." That's exactly how I've felt all my life. View quote
Marlon Brando
There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is. View quote
Roberto Cavalli