Lines Quotes - Page 82

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.

Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.

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

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.

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth

Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.

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

Some sell their soul for the easy road. The devil's always buying. I can't count the ones I've known who fell right into line.

I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic.

I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside.

I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison windows in which the lines, precisely are the bars.

I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line.

Loneliness is equal to the radius of one's awareness.

Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth: And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth.

Yon grey lines That fret the clouds are messengers of day.

It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.

In the time of your life, live-so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.

It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss of it is a very painful loss. It cannot be doubted, at least, by many of us in this generation, who either profess it now, or received it in our childhood and have parted from it since with such searching trouble as only cradle-faiths can cause. We have seen the spring sun shine out of an empty heaven, to light up a soulless earth; we have felt with utter loneliness that the Great Companion is dead.

In the longer term, I hope that as Vietnam evolves into a more prosperous society with active ties to the international marketplace, it will lose its inherent suspicion of the outside world and begin to develop along the lines of what has recently been happening in Thailand and Malaysia.

Loneliness is something you can't walk away from.

I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him.

Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood.

You should pull him back besides in all the lines before the quarter, just as you make the others advance.

Originality will be rewarded in any line.