Line Quotes - page 3

Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid. (Rutherford B. Hayes)
The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, 'Global warming is a hoax,' he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of climate scientists. View quote
Bernie Sanders
I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line. View quote
Daniel Radcliffe
It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress. View quote
Paul Dirac
The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech. View quote
Kenneth Rexroth
Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt. View quote
Pablo Picasso
He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. View quote
Sydney Smith
There are two worlds: the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imagination. View quote
Leigh Hunt
There is a fine line between insanity and genius. View quote
Dan Brown
Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line. (Walter Scott)
What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier. View quote
Walter Scott
The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Wherefore a monk's whole attention should thus be fixed on one point, and the rise and circle of all his thoughts be vigorously restricted to it; viz., to the recollection of God, as when a man, who is anxious to raise on high a vault of a round arch, must constantly draw a line round from its exact centre, and in accordance with the sure standard it gives discover by the laws of building all the evenness and roundness required.... View quote
John Cassian
But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female. View quote
Rose Tremain
My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish. View quote
Stephen Greenblatt
There is the old catch-22 line that a mentally unstable person can't know, as per their illness, that they are unstable. But that was wrong. You can and do have the insight to see your own crazy. View quote
Harlan Coben
Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day. View quote
Wilhelm Dilthey
Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness. View quote
Dean Karnazes
How to run an ultramarathon ? Puff out your chest, put one foot in front of the other, and don't stop till you cross the finish line. (Dean Karnazes)
Toeing the starting line of a marathon, regardless of the language you speak, the God you worship or the color of your skin, we all stand as equal. Perhaps the world would be a better place if more people ran. View quote
Dean Karnazes
Surprise is not humor. I think that there can be a fine line there. View quote
Keegan-Michael Key
You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft. View quote
Leslie Nielsen
Compromise, hell! That's what happened to us all down the line -- and that's the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time? View quote
Jesse Helms