Lines Quotes - Page 61

One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no unhappiness. One leaf left all by itself in the air and it does not speak of loneliness or death. One leaf and it spends itself in swaying mildly in the breeze.

We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.

Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.

H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.

I was literally living on the edge of life, to the point where I didn't know what was going to happen, not caring, taking chances and finally landing in prison and once there, all my lines were cut.

I've never been the kind of actress that just likes to show up and say my lines. I'm fascinated by what the crew does.

By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition.

Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.

The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.

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

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

Let us defend the home as a place which is second only to the temple in holiness.

Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.

God's holiness demands that sin be punished - but God's love has provided the way of redemption through Christ.

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.

Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.

At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.

The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop - for convenience, the one hundredth meridian - you have reached the West.

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.

Almost all countries have natural dividing lines, and when ethnic and religious partition occurs in one country, it'll soon happen elsewhere.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

It’s more than just saying lines and turning the light on. You have to drive the story - there’s a technical aspect.

The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.

I've always known when I start a story what the last line is. It's always been the case, since the first story I ever wrote. I don't know how it's going to get there, but I seem to need the destination. I need to know where I end up. It never changes, ever.