Lines Quotes - Page 71

Everyone's showing their thong out the back of their jeans. But you shouldn't wear any. You get a better line if you wear no knickers.

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness. You are in the country where you make up the rules, the laws. You are both dictator and obedient populace. It is a country nobody has ever explored before. It is up to you to make the maps, to build the cities. Nobody else in the world can do it, or ever could do it, or ever will be able to do it again.

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.

There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning.

I think loneliness comes with being creative, because you are obsessed with creation. And it is so satisfying that sometimes, I have noticed, I completely neglect my friends and my family, and they fall away.

I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth.

The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

If we examine ourselves carefully we shall see most of us have an enormous amount of unfinished business...We have to be free so that we can just step across the line and that's it. That is what real freedom is.

Don't foul, don't flinch-hit the line hard.

My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights.

And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness

This is the line of life, this is the line of growth, and this is the line of well-being in India - to follow the track of religion.

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

The pursuit of holiness is always on the path of obedience to the Word, never apart from it.

Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail.

Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.

I don't believe in pick-up lines because I've always been very comfortable in my own skin.

In short, [photography] is a matter of turning loneliness into thoughts.

Such a muddy line between the things you want/And the things you have to do.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn't about the finish line but how I got there that mattered.