Lines Quotes - Page 88

The famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity of line, simplicity, economy of effect.

Fragile egos are put on the line every day.

Nothing is more beautiful than a line that brings out a form.

There's the chart -- and there's the heart. And it's great when they both line up. But you better follow your heart, 'cause that's where it's at.

Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out and went round the corner to the local supermarket because this to me is the front line.

Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.

Let's clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground.

Straight lines don't exist in the human form and are extremely rare in nature, so the human touch in the logo is that all the lines and forms have at least a slight curve.

Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But this is truest of the face of an infant. I consider that to be one kind of vision, as mystical as any.

The biggest problem is our lack of "response-ability." That’s what happens when money rather than love is the bottom line. People act like idiots.

The bottom line in love is not whether someone loves you, but whether someone chooses you.

Life doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good conversation.

Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life.

There is a fine line between perseverance and madness.

I'm a bloody fun-seeker. Whatever the role is, I'll find a way to deliver the line that is confounding.

Basically, I just want to make movies and maybe even produce TV later down the line, do some writing, maybe a tour with my music. And start a family! That's really important to me.

The first cup moistens my lips and throat; The second cup breaks my loneliness; The third cup searches my barren entrail but to find therein some thousand volumes of odd ideographs; The fourth cup raises a slight perspiration-all the wrongs of life pass out through my pores; At the fifth cup I am purified; The sixth cup calls me to the realms of the immortals. The seventh cup-ah, but I could take no more! I only feel the breath of the cool wind that raises in my sleeves. Where is Elysium? Let me ride on this sweet breeze and waft away thither.

What would they say if they knew I sit for two months on six lines of poetry?

If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?

She had always maintained a cynical facade, using it as a defence against embarrassment, fear, loneliness… but at the moment she felt unusually vulnerable.

We have to appreciate that we are part of nature, we must work with nature; the environment is our lifeline.

Please make me empty, if I'm empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I'm not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.

Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided.

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.

It was as if the power and loneliness of the vampires' world had combined with the group oriented puppy-pile world of the shapeshifters and made something new.