Lines Quotes - Page 13

Some people make headlines while others make history.

I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a nothing, known by nothing, lonelier and colder than the space between the stars. It was more frightening than being dead.

When I'm asked where libertarians fit on the left-right spectrum, I say we don't. We're above the line.

The word 'however' is like an imp coiled beneath your chair. It induces ink to form words you have not yet seen, and lines to march across the page and overshoot the margin. There are no endings. If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings. Here is one.

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

I went down like a drunken cowgirl trying to line dance to Metallica.

The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.

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

Cleanliness is a state of purity, clarity, and precision

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.

Michael Jackson plays the wounded puppy very well. 'I must be the loneliest man in the world'. Well, you're not a man. And the loneliness is self inflicted, so sod off you pathetic puerile pimp. I wonder what color his willy is.

There is nothing more painful than the untimely death of someone young and dear to the heart. The harrowing grief surges from a bottomless well of sorrow, drowning the mourner in a torrent of agonizing pain; an exquisite pain that continues to afflict the mourner with heartache and loneliness long after the deceased is buried and gone.

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language, making the creative process something like eavesdropping at a party for which you've had the fun of drawing up the guest list. Loneliness usually doesn't set in until the work is finished, and all the partygoers and their imagined universe have disappeared.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

You ache with loneliness one night so much you weep and I say 'here is a rope tie it around me Hafiz will be your companion for life'.

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

In my opinion, all previous advances in the various lines of invention will appear totally insignificant when compared with those which the present century will witness. I almost wish that I might live my life over again to see the wonders which are at the threshold.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.

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

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

Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.

We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own.

Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.

Oh, God, help me! And I walked faster, my thoughts pursuing me, and I began to run, my frozen shoes squealing like mice, but running didn't help, the thoughts to the left and right and behind me. But as I ran, The Arm, that good left arm, took hold of the situation and spoke soothingly: ease up, Kid, it's loneliness, you're all alone in the world; your father, your mother, your faith, they can't help you, nobody helps anybody, you only help yourself, and that's why I'm here, because we are inseperable, and we'll take care of everything.

Loneliness is a hell of a drug.