Lines Quotes:

In nature there are few sharp lines

- A. R. Ammons

source: A. R. Ammons (1968). “Selected poems”

topic: Lines

Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.

- A. S. Byatt

topic: Vocabulary, Circles, Lines, Loops

In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.

- Abby Sunderland

source: Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.161, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Lines, Awful, Moments

To line only for some unknown future is superficial.

- Abdul Kalam

topic: Future, Lines, Superficial, Unknown Future

You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.

- Abe Burrows

topic: Curves, Lines, Ends, Straight Lines

There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: War, People, Lines, Great American

The toughest part is that when your kid's upset, you're upset. You're rocked until they're not upset. Even when they're not upset, you're like, "I hope that doesn't happen, down the line." You're always nervous because you want your kid to be happy.

- Adam Sandler

topic: Kids, Upset, Lines

I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.

- Adrien Brody

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Parent, Lines, Grew Up

No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.

- Agnetha Faltskog

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Feelings, Lines, Celebration

I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.

- Aimee Bender

topic: Space, Lines, Dots, Question Mark

For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.

- Aimee Mann

topic: Details, Stories, Lines

Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.

- Al Hirschfeld

source: Of Edward Lear and James Thurber. Quoted in Neil A Grauer Remember Laughter (1994).

topic: Creativity, Lines, Way

The poet lives as long as his lines are imprinted on the minds of his readers.

- Alan Bold

topic: Long, Mind, Lines

They (Liverpool players) are passing the cup down the line like a new born baby. Although when they are back in the dressing room they will probably fill it with champagne, something you should never do to a baby.

- Alan Parry

topic: Baby, Player, Lines

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

- Alan Rickman

topic: Lines, Forget You, Gremlins, Stage Fright, Fright

We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

- Alan Shearer

topic: Confidence, Games, Lines, Fine Lines

You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Color, Lines, Want

Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.

- Alec Baldwin

topic: Party, Judging, Lines

Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted.

- Alec Baldwin

source: "Fictional character: Blake". Glengarry Glen Ross, www.imdb.com. 1992.

topic: Badass, Lines, This Life

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

- Aleksandar Hemon

topic: Facts, Fiction, Lines, Fact And Fiction, Postmodern

Merv Griffin, who developed Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, had a great line once. I used to personally answer all the mail that came in to Jeopardy! whether it was favorable or unfavorable, and Merv said, You know how I handle the nasty mail? I said no. He just grabbed it and folded it up and crunched it up and threw it in the wastebasket. He said, I don't bother with it.

- Alex Trebek

topic: Answers, Lines, Mail, Wheel Of Fortune

It's not just that that and that exists. It's that that, that, that, and that all exist in the same frame. I'm always looking for something more. You take in too much; perhaps it becomes total chaos. I'm always playing along that line: adding something more, yet keeping it sort of chaos.

- Alex Webb

topic: Lines, Too Much, Chaos

I was raised by a very strict, good mother, so I wont be getting out of line anytime soon.

- Alexa Vega

topic: Mother, Lines, Strict

Hidden in a long text, there are perhaps three lines that count.

- Alexander Kluge

topic: Long, Three, Lines

Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Lines, Taste, Chaos

Anybody who cares about the functioning of democracy should be concerned about the blurring of lines between public and private interests.

- Alexander Stille

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Democracy, Who Cares, Lines

The great thing is that young talent isn't tied to a how-to model for starting a line; we get to find new ways to go about doing things. And don't let people tell you you can't. Go find a way to show that you can.

- Alexander Wang

topic: People, Lines, Way, Young Talent

You've written three lines" "Three carefully considered lines,"Xavier objected. "Quality over quantity, remember

- Alexandra Adornetto

source: Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.243, Macmillan

topic: Quality, Three, Lines

The line we draw between animals that are socially acceptable and those we find repugnant can be awfully arbitrary.

- Alexandra Harney

source: "A Love Story About... A Rat Named Mr. Tiffany" by Alexandra Harney, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2013.

topic: Animal, Arbitrary, Lines

I love theater work because of the immediate effect your performance has on the audience. And I love the repetition; I love getting on the same stage for more than a month and reciting the same lines, trying to make a small or large step towards an improvement in my acting.

- Alfred Molina

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Trying, Acting, Lines, Reciting

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

- Alfred Nobel

topic: Believe, People, Lines, Crooked Lines

Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line.

- Alice McCall

source: Alice McCall (2009). “Wellness Wisdom”, p.18, Alice McCall

topic: Healing, Long, Lines, Winding Road

People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.

- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

topic: People, Lines, Hens, Beaks

I think Twitter is such a cool thing because it really is a direct line to the fans and for fans back to you, and it's such a new thing. I think in the past there's been usually fan mail and that's really good, but Twitter, it gets an immediate response.

- Alison Brie

topic: Thinking, Past, Lines, Fan Mail

The story line of the Bible is the story line of God taking the initiative in seeking out a people who are His very own.

- Alistair Begg

topic: People, Stories, Lines

The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.

- Allan Kaprow

topic: Art, Lines, Should, Art And Life

I'm actively looking at pilots in the very limited pilot season that is about to begin. Lots of work for my clothing line which is extremely exciting.

- Alyssa Milano

topic: Lines, Pilots, Exciting, Clothing Line

I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.

- Amanda Palmer

topic: People, Caves, Lines

But today the quickest way to save your bottom line is to cut off research.

- Amar Bose

topic: Cutting, Sea, Lines

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

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Death, Moving, Lines

Running has taught me, perhaps more than anything else, that there's no reason to fear starting lines... or other new beginnings.

- Amby Burfoot

source: "This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly". Book by Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff, 2009.

topic: Running, New Beginnings, Lines

That's the beauty of starting lines: Until you begin a new venture, you never know what awaits you.

- Amby Burfoot

topic: Running, Lines, Venture, New Ventures

I watched 'The Muppet Movie' obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a pretty mean Fozzie Bear.

- Amy Adams

topic: Mean, Lines, Bears

Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.

- Amy Lowell

source: Amy Lowell (1931). “Tendencies in Modern American Poetry”, p.6, Ardent Media

topic: Art, Lines, Ends, Freshness

If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.

- Andre Breton

topic: Discipline, Lines, Moral

Waiting in line for something mundane is very boring. Waiting for my doctor to see me and waiting for my dentist to see me, yes, that is boring.

- Andre Leon Talley

topic: Doctors, Waiting, Lines, Waiting In Line

Not all lines, not all images, survive their season.

- Andrei Voznesensky

topic: Lines

I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.

- Andrew Bird

topic: Believe, Writing, Lines

I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources, and in my experience I have rarely if ever met a man who achieved preeminence in money making.. certainly never one in manufacturing.. who was interested in many concerns.

- Andrew Carnegie

topic: Believe, Commitment, Lines

A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.

- Andrew Carnegie

topic: Integrity, Lines, Ethics

God draws straight with crooked lines.

- Andrew Greeley

source: Andrew Greeley (2008). “Common Ground: A Priest and a Rabbi Read Scripture Together”, p.219, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

topic: Catholic, Lines, Draws, Crooked Lines

What strikes me is that theres a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.

- Andrew Lloyd Webber

topic: Differences, Lines, Ingredients

As lines, so loves oblique, may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours, so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet.

- Andrew Marvell

source: 'The Definition of Love' (1681)

topic: Love, Lines, May

The life insurance policies advertised on the radio with the line "You cannot be turned down for this coverage!" are actually saying, " For policies this small, it would cost us more to decide whom to turn down than simply to accept everybody-and make them pay through the nose.

- Andrew Tobias

topic: Cost, Noses, Lines, Insurance Policy, Life Insurance Policy

The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.

- Andrew Vachss

source: Andrew Vachss (2008). “Terminal: A Burke Novel”, p.21, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

topic: People, Lines, Vote

Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.

- Andrew Wyeth

topic: Lines, Moderation

There's a quote from Hamlet that is my guide... He tells the players not to exaggerate but to hold a mirror up to nature. Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.

- Andrew Wyeth

topic: Player, Mirrors, Lines

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

- Andy Goldsworthy

topic: Artist, Energy, Lines

I do understand that when someone gives you a [expletive] load of money, you take that money. Someone like Larry Ellison wants to invest into his event and make it the biggest possible, and he gets stopped by the ATP. If you're a start-up, what would make you want to navigate through that and to go through that firing line? How can you step into tennis with any confidence? It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard of.

- Andy Roddick

topic: Giving, Tennis, Lines, Expletives

Many years from now, what would you like people to line up and thank you for?

- Andy Stanley

topic: Years, People, Lines

Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.

- Ang Lee

topic: Lines, Sensitivity, Parallel Lines

I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.

- Angela Sarafyan

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Lines, Terrible, Honestly, Pickup Line

I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to

- Anish Kapoor

topic: Years, Two, Lines

One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.

- Anita Diament

topic: Writing, Lines, Littles, Spanish And English

I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.

- Anita Hill

topic: Lines, Lawyer, Individual

I finally realized the happy medium, 'honey blonde' was the correct color and line for me.

- Ann Sothern

topic: Color, Blonde, Lines

If you don't believe in a line, then you come off as the loser.

- Anna Faris

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Believe, Lines, Loser

It's really important to draw the line on what we do as actors.

- Anna Friel

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Important, Actors, Lines

I would sooner read five lines of the Bible than hear five masses in the "Church".

- Anne Askew

topic: Church, Lines, Christianity, Protestantism, Great Christian

When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]

- Anne Bishop

source: Anne Bishop (2003). “The black jewels trilogy”, Roc

topic: Law, Honor, Lines

There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.

- Anne Enright

topic: Dream, Men, Lines

And what amazes me as I hit the motorway is not the fact that everyone loses someone, but that everyone loves someone. It seems like such a massive waste of energy -- and we all do it, all the people beetling along between the white lines, merging, converging, overtaking. We each love someone, even though they will die. And we keep loving them, even when they are not there to love any more. And there is no logic or use to any of this, that I can see.

- Anne Enright

topic: White, People, Lines, Overtaking

I put myself on the line with my truth and my sexuality. That is my choice. My choice

- Anne Heche

topic: Choices, Lines, Sexuality

I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Long, People, Lines, Long Lines

I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is.

- Anthony A. Williams

topic: Lines, May, World

When you look at how American national freight systems are connected, it's a bit of a patchwork. When you look at how even road systems and rail systems work across state lines, it's a bit of a patchwork.

- Anthony Foxx

source: Source: www.politico.com

topic: Lines, Looks, States, Patchwork

People ask me how did you choose the part and how did you prepare for this work? I just learned the lines and showed up; I don't know what else to say because that's all I know how to do.

- Anthony Hopkins

topic: People, Lines, Ask Me

Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

- Anthony Hopkins

topic: Actors, Lines, Littles

Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line.

- Anthony Kennedy

source: "Anton Corbijn’s Spy Games". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 23, 2014.

topic: Cutting, Lines, Captains, Tow

I love my dad. He's the biggest thing in my life. He taught me and he straightened me out and he kept me in line. If it hadn't been for him standing behind me and pushing me and driving me, I wouldn't be where I am today.

- Anthony Perkins

topic: Dad, Lines, Today, Love My Dad, I Love My Dad

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

- Anthony Storr

source: " Anthony Storr, the face of psychiatry, dies" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2001.

topic: Bipolar, Lines, Want, Mentally Ill

Here's a viewer's guide to BP media briefings. Whenever you hear someone with a British accent talking about this on behalf of British Petroleum they are not telling you the truth. That's the bottom-line.

- Anthony Weiner

source: YouTube Channel "Douglas Johnston"/"Weiner says anyone from BP with a British accent is lying", www.youtube.com. June 07, 2010.

topic: Media, Talking, Lines, Briefing

Art brings out the grand lines of nature.

- Antoine Bourdelle

topic: Art, Design, Lines

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

- Antonio Gaudi

topic: Lines, Building

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.

- Antonio Porchia

source: "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

topic: Life, Distance, Lines

There is this great idea about the logic of a politician, along the lines of: "Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

- Antony Jay

topic: Ideas, Done, Lines

For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.

- Aristotle

topic: Lines, Riches, Flow

A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.

- Aristotle

topic: Science, Lines, Way, Indivisible

Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.

- Aristotle

topic: Excellence, Lines, Talent, Utilization

I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans,

- Arlen Specter

topic: Philosophy, Political, Lines, Political Philosophy

Songwriting is like fishing in a stream; you put in your line and hope to catch something. And I don't think anyone downstream from Bob Dylan ever caught anything.

- Arlo Guthrie

topic: Thinking, Fishing, Lines

So its mix and match. Hold your line when you really feel something youre saying is wonderful and you really want to get this point across and prove it to your partner by just throwing it into the tape and letting it speak for itself.

- Art Garfunkel

topic: Tape, Lines, Want

Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.

- Arthur Eddington

topic: Body, Lines, Uniforms

When an investigator has developed a formula which gives a complete representation of the phenomena within a certain range, he may be prone to satisfaction. Would it not be wiser if he should say 'Foiled again! I can find out no more about Nature along this line.'

- Arthur Eddington

topic: Giving, Lines, May

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

- Arthur Erickson

topic: Expression, Lines, Source

Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don't. Lines may clog; systems may break; orders may back-up.

- Arthur Levitt Jr

topic: Break Up, Order, Lines

Turning points in my life... the bush, the trails, lakes, waterfalls... moving camp from one wonderful lake to another... the companionship of a great individual, a wonder with canoe, axe and fish line.

- Arthur Lismer

topic: Moving, Lakes, Lines

In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.

- Asa Gray

source: Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion”

topic: Animal, Vegetables, Lines

I should just stay composed and run to the finish line.

- Asafa Powell

topic: Running, Lines, Finish Line

I just want to give my best in London, I want to cross that line and see a personal best on the clock then I will see what position I am in.

- Asafa Powell

topic: Giving, Lines, Want, Personal Best

Design my own line? No, I just like the culture.

- ASAP Rocky

source: "ASAP Rocky Coveteur Interview: Rapper Says ‘Fashion Is Almost Like A Religion’" by Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2013.

topic: Design, Culture, Lines

I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don't really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends, and they become more and more logical. I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.

- Asghar Farhadi

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Math, Trying, Lines

Faviana is a line that girls can feel super-glamorous in. A lot of their designs are kind of based off of what celebrities wear on the red carpet!

- Ashley Benson

source: "Ashley Benson Talks Prom and PLL!". Interview with Kara McGrath, www.seventeen.com. March 5, 2013.

topic: Girl, Design, Lines

I think we should be proud of the fact that our face has got lines, because at least that means we have lived.

- Ashley Jensen

topic: Mean, Thinking, Lines

Life's too short to worry about injecting botulism into your face to get rid of a tiny line because you've laughed too much. To me, that's a bit warped.

- Ashley Jensen

topic: Worry, Lines, Too Much

There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.

- Ashley Montagu

topic: School, Caring, Lines, Medical School, Assembly Line

I have a hard time retaining the lines. Even on set I make mistakes but I'm okay with that.

- Ashley Scott

topic: Mistake, Hard Times, Lines

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

- Augusten Burroughs

topic: Writing, Sitting, Lines, Motels, Standing In Line

There's a fine line between a superpower and a chronic medical condition.

- Austin Grossman

source: Austin Grossman (2007). “Soon I Will Be Invincible: A Novel”, p.133, Vintage

topic: Lines, Medical, Fine, Medical Conditions

I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters or someone who can sing.

- Avicii

topic: Writing, Lines, Want

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Religion, Defense, Lines

Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.

- Azim Premji

topic: Lines, Way, Poverty, Health And Education

Mindy Kaling gets her own line in the acknowledgments, as previously negotiated by her representatives. Thanks, Mindy. I love you and you're the best.

- B. J. Novak

topic: Love You, Lines, Thanks, Acknowledgment

I never understood that line. The point was to inhale. That was the point.

- Barack Obama

topic: Marijuana, Lines, Understood

I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.

- Barbara Walters

topic: People, Rumor, Lines

I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.

- Barbra Streisand

topic: Fun, Orchestra, Lines

You know, there's such a very thin dividing line between inspiration and obsession that sometimes it's very hard to decide which side we're really on.

- Barnes Wallis

topic: Inspiration, Lines, Sides

You won't even know you've crossed the line until it's way back in your rearview mirror.

- Barry Lyga

source: Barry Lyga (2012). “I Hunt Killers”, p.321, Random House

topic: Mirrors, Lines, Way, Rearview Mirror

Sometimes a line of mathematical research extending through decades can be thought of as one long conversation in which many mathematicians take part. This is fortunately true at present.

- Barry Mazur

topic: Long, Research, Lines, Long Conversations, Extending

One of the flabby lines you hear sometimes is, 'Speak truth to power'. Power knows the truth. It's speaking the truth to yourself that's the challenge.

- Barry Sanders

source: "Oregon Book Award Finalist Barry Sanders: The Purposeful Rambler". www.oregonlive.com. April 16, 2011.

topic: Challenges, Lines, Sometimes, Truth To Yourself

The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.

- Basil Bunting

topic: Lines, Poet, Duty

The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

- Bear Grylls

topic: Lines, Determined, Life Or Death

I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.

- Bear Grylls

topic: Self, Lines, Determined, No Nonsense, Self Motivated

All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force ...

- Beatrice Webb

source: 1917 Health of Working Girls, ch.10.

topic: Drinking, Alcohol, Lines

Nope. That´s my line. This is my boyfriend´s house, which makes that my line,exclusively.Where is he?" Nora (p. 287)

- Becca Fitzpatrick

topic: House, My Boyfriend, Lines

Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.

- Beck

topic: Growing Up, Lines, Comedy

We decided to redefine the bottom line at Ben & Jerry's

- Ben Cohen

topic: Lines, Bottom, Jerry

I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.

- Ben Gibbard

topic: Writing, Piano, Lines

I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.

- Ben Stein

topic: Inquiry, Lines, Scientist, Reprisal

Lines are very difficult to learn.

- Benedict Cumberbatch

topic: Lines, Difficult

Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they're part of a continuous cycle that begins right here. They're not only the ending, but the beginning as well.

- Benjamin Hoff

source: "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1982.

topic: Sight, Waiting, Lines, Cycles

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.

- Benjamin Lee Whorf

source: "Science and Linguistics" (1946)

topic: Nature, Lines, Language, Native Language, Dissecting

Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but also you will possess a fixed base, an invariant pattern, opening upon all further developments of understanding,

- Bernard Lonergan

source: Bernard Lonergan (1992). “Insight: A Study of Human Understanding”, p.70, University of Toronto Press

topic: Understanding, Development, Lines

We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.

- Bernard Nathanson

topic: Abortion, Deceit, Lines

Welcome to prekindergarten! You will not die if you discover that there are more lines out there than just your own. In fact, you'll discover that you will have an advantage if you know more of them!

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

topic: Justice, Lines, Facts

You could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up - a line which I often thought was a very plausible one - that as a matter of fact this world that we know was made by the devil at a moment when God was not looking. There is a good deal to be said for that, and I am not concerned to refute it.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Devil, World, Lines

Insecurity is miserable. That's the bottom line. We don't need it. We don't want it. And we really can live without it. So what would happen if we quite being accomplices in our own misery?

- Beth Moore

topic: Insecurity, Needs, Lines

Pray to God and say the lines.

- Bette Davis

topic: Theatre, Lines, Praying

Gravity has taken over me from time to time. But otherwise than that, I'm blessed with good health. That's the bottom line.

- Betty White

topic: Blessed, Taken, Lines

The bottom line is, I'm blessed with good health. On top of that, I don't go around thinking 'Oh, I'm 90, I better do this or I better do that.' I'm just Betty. I'm the same Betty that I've always been. Take it or leave it.

- Betty White

topic: Blessed, Thinking, Lines

I started working on a line of clothes last year, but right now we're kind of at a standstill.

- Beverley Mitchell

topic: Years, Clothes, Lines, Standstill

There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky. I feel like tasteful is very unique...it's not necessarily wearing a bunch of chains - that could be either tasteful or tacky. It just depends on how you wear them and what kind of chains they are.

- Big Sean

topic: Unique, Tacky, Lines

If you try to deliver a funny line in a funny way, it comes out as wacky and you ruin the scene.

- Bill Burr

topic: Trying, Lines, Way, Wacky

In the marathon of life, there is no finish line.

- Bill Courtney

topic: Lines, Marathon, Finish Line

Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.

- Bill Delahunt

topic: Community, Lines, Bricks, Sales Tax, Mortar

For all the progress, we recognize we're very far from the finish line

- Bill Ford

source: "Ford Posts Massive Loss, to Announce 'Significant' Layoffs", www.foxnews.com. October 20, 2005.

topic: Progress, Lines, Finish Line

A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point, 1D into line, curved into geodesic...

- Bill Gaede

topic: Adjectives, Nouns, Lines, Continuum

I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody.

- Bill Haley

topic: Night, Rocks, Lines, One Night

It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.

- Bill Pascrell

topic: Jobs, Suffering, Lines, Shameful, Economic Injustice

You guys line up alphabetically by height.

- Bill Peterson

topic: Sports, Guy, Lines, Sports Football, Funniest Sports

There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.

- Bill Pullman

topic: Lines, Remember, Moments

The starting line of the New York Marathon is kind of like a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.

- Bill Rodgers

topic: Sports, New York, Lines, Time Bomb

NATO will not become involved in partitioning that country, .. We're not going to engage in an operation that will fix demarcation lines. This is one country, and it will remain one country.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Country, Lines, Operations

Speaking of line, what artist of line was ever able to find more depth and volume than Hirschfeld? He was an illustrator and a caricaturist, but first and foremost, an artist.

- Billy Cannon

topic: Artist, Depth, Lines

I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience. There's a fine line you have to tread because you don't know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.

- Billy Connolly

topic: Differences, People, Lines, Offended You, Easily Offended

The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.

- Billy Sunday

topic: Church, Lines, Dormitory

You can't measure manhood with a tape line around his biceps.

- Billy Sunday

topic: Biceps, Tape, Lines

But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you're going to do.

- Billy West

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Fall, Character, Lines, Musicality

Develop a clean line of action for your leading character

- Billy Wilder

topic: Character, Lines, Action

The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.

- Bjorn Ulvaeus

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Rights, Religion, Lines

I won't go into detail but this animated one, the story line is very cool and the kids seem to love it.

- Blair Underwood

topic: Kids, Stories, Lines, Very Cool

When I saw my first movie, I was fine, but I thought, "Oh, my heavens. It's not about just standing there on my mark and saying these lines. I need to actually act."

- Blake Lively

topic: Heaven, Needs, Lines, Standing There

I am a big believer that everybody has unusual, and certainly untapped, potential. The more people like that we can line up with their skill set and with their abilities, the more success we get to have.

- Blake Roney

topic: Skills, People, Lines, Untapped Potential

There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.

- Bo Burnham

topic: Mind, Lines, Certain

Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth. None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.

- Bob Dylan

topic: Wine, Earth, Lines

I've always been the kind of person that doesn't like to trespass, but sometimes you just find yourself over the line.

- Bob Dylan

topic: Finding Yourself, Lines, Kind

I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.

- Bob Newhart

topic: Thinking, Comedian, Lines, Family Background

What I have now are good problems of trying to decide and what I really want to do is good work next. My phone's ringing a lot more and I've got nine lines so when it doesn't ring, it's very frustrating.

- Bob Saget

topic: Phones, Trying, Lines

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

- Bob Seger

topic: Singing, Playing Music, Lines

For anyone who has ever stood before a bathroom mirror and secretly thanked The Academy, a hilarious guide to becoming 'It' in an age where the line between fame and infamy is as fine as a Manolo Blahnik stiletto heel.

- Bonnie Fuller

topic: Mirrors, Age, Lines, Stiletto Heels, Stilettos

But I'm thrilled to be employed, and to work with all my friends and people that I admire. You're just lucky to work - that's the bottom line.

- Bonnie Hunt

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: People, Lucky, Lines, Admire You

I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?

- Boris Johnson

source: "The Genelection Game". Sunday Mirror, April 24, 2005.

topic: Drug, Lines, Remember

I bet that the best thing about being a hermaphrodite is that you always get to use the bathroom with the shortest line.

- Brad Wilkerson

topic: Sex, Use, Lines, Hermaphrodites

All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I've been and how I got to where I am.

- Brandi Carlile

source: Song: The Story

topic: Who I Am, Stories, Lines

Into The Wild had a great sense of wild, unpredictable freedom that I loved, and Unforgiven is just a great western with characters that walked the line between right/wrong with an ambiguity that felt very true to frontier life.

- Brendan Fletcher

topic: Character, Lines, Very True

I don't care what anyone says. You have to wake up and say to yourself, 'I accept that I have diabetes, and I'm not going to let it run my entire life.' It's a fine line, a Catch-22, a balancing act. I work to enjoy my life like a regular human being and at the same time keep my blood sugar levels as decent as possible.

- Bret Michaels

topic: Running, Blood, Lines, Diabetes, Balancing Act

Every game I've ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line.

- Brett Favre

source: "Exclusive: Brett Favre 'On the Record'". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. July 17, 2008.

topic: Games, Nfl, Lines, Pre Season, Super Bowl

I dont see lines of force as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.

- Brian Ferneyhough

topic: Lines, Path, Force, Observance

The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.

- Brian Greene

topic: Law, Lines, Physics, Laws Of Physics, Bottom Line

You always want to feel better but I'm good. My thing is once you get to the playoffs, you do whatever it takes. You've got to lay it on the line.

- Brian Jordan

topic: Feel Better, Lines, Want

For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief.

- Brian Koppelman

topic: Artist, Lines, Belief

I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.

- Brian Molko

topic: Stars, Rocks, Lines

The bottom line is that people are seeking answers and direction, not messages or sales pitches.

- Brian Solis

source: Brian Solis (2010). “Engage: The Complete Guide for Brands and Businesses to Build, Cultivate, and Measure Success in the New Web”, p.7, John Wiley & Sons

topic: People, Answers, Lines, Sales Pitch

If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action. Instead of becoming sidetracked by distractions and diversions, your time is focused on a straight line from start to finish.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Goal, Focus, Lines, Clear Goals

Bottom line: If you love yourself, it will all work out.

- Britney Spears

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Love Yourself, Work Out, Lines, Confidence In Yourself, Bottom Line

I spend hours mowing the lawn in absolutely straight lines on my tractor. If it's not right, I do it again.

- Britt Ekland

topic: Mowing, Lines, Hours, Mowing The Lawn

If someone's 20 years old and every third line out of their mouth is anti-something specific, then draw your own conclusion.

- Bronson Pinchot

source: Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 20, 2009.

topic: Years, Mouths, Lines

As far as my favorite sites, I do a lot of mundane stuff on line because I travel so much.

- Bruce Campbell

topic: Lines, Stuff, My Favorite

The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet.

- Bruce Feiler

topic: Skeletons, Lines, Want

The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come.

- Bruce Feiler

topic: Odds, Lines, May

Never had much faith in love or miracles, Never wanna put my heart on the line

- Bruno Mars

source: Song: Locked Out Of Heaven, Album: Unorthodox Jukebox, 2012

topic: Heart, Miracle, Lines, Faith In Love

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

- Buck Owens

topic: Waiting, Lines, Welfare

I done drew the line. Just like the Alamo. You're either on one side of the line or the other. I don't want to ever leave Texas again.

- Bum Phillips

topic: Texas, Done, Lines, Texan, Alamo

If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Thinking, Lines, Pages

Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Humility, Delight, Lines

The days of the future stand in front of us Like a line of candles all alight Golden and warm and lively little candles.

- C.P. Cavafy

source: Constantine P. Cavafy, “Candles”

topic: Lines, Littles, Golden

As long as I can compete, I won't quit. Reaching three-thousand is not the finish line as long as I can contribute.

- Cal Ripken, Jr.

topic: Long, Three, Lines

I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.

- Camilla Belle

topic: Credit, Lines, My Family

Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things , which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau.

- Camille Paglia

topic: Egypt, Personality, Lines, Gaudy

I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.

- Campbell Newman

topic: Accountability, Political, Lines