Lines Quotes

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
Muhammad Ali

Fight, Long, Lost

Duh! So, we're asking you now, what are some of your favorite lines that this warlock brain produced?
Charlie Sheen

Brain, Favorite, Asking

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
Helen Hayes

Life, Work, Good

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
James Joyce

Women, Men, Emotion

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.
Lois Wyse

Generation, Connect, Dots

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
Maria Montessori

Education, Future, Knowledge

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.
Steve Martin

Laughter, Real, Laugh

Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.
Lois Capps

Health, Important, Wrong

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
Anthony Hecht

Best, Fun, Yourself

I always know my lines.
Vivien Leigh

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.
Tom Stoppard

Long, Writing, Often

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
Woodrow Wilson

Politics, Society, Science

You know, I've got wrinkles on my forehead and smile lines, but what's wrong with that? I love to smile.
Jennifer Aniston

Love, Smile, Wrong

Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture.
Noel Coward

Trip, Furniture

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
Vivien Leigh

Truth, Sometimes, Show

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.
Cardinal Richelieu

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.
Charles Baudelaire

Write, Subject, Saved

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.
Maynard James Keenan

Change, May, Different

I just want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life, because work is my life and the lines can get really blurry.
Drew Barrymore

Life, Work, Sense

I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.
Syd Barrett

Around, Write, Tend

Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.
Benjamin Netanyahu

Before, Put, Light

My preparation is mainly just knowing the lines and getting in and knowing where your character is, knowing what it's about and having ideas that you can put in on the day.
Daniel Radcliffe

Character, Put, Getting

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Great, Home, School

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

Thought, Learn, Show

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
Karl Lagerfeld

Music, Single, Remember

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

Place, Wrong, Between

Sense of smell, of course, is only one of those dog qualities that can't be replicated or improved upon. I've been researching dogs in warfare for my book about 'Rin Tin Tin,' and I've read many accounts of their heroics: carrying messages through battle, alerting troops to enemy planes, and even parachuting behind enemy lines.
Susan Orlean

Enemy, Book, Battle

Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.
Susan Orlean

Work, Experience, Children

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

Money, Meet, Parallel

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
Edouard Manet

Nature, Another, Against

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