Quotes by category:Lines

a local train ... moved gently off up the line with a very singular motion indeed, in which the leap of a frog, the bounce of a pogo-stick, and the canter of a very short fat pony all were brought to mind.

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It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how.

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When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away.

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When I began to play Frisbee, I would play with my friends and we used to do difficult things. We would stand in front of lines of trees that were parallel. We would spend hours throwing frisbees back and forth between these tight spots.

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You know how a lot of people say they could go crazy? Well, I fee... by Hope Davis

You know how a lot of people say they could go crazy? Well, I feel I live very close to that line.

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In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimac... by Hortense Calisher

In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.

Hortense Calisher

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Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out in a straight line.

That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.

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When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology.

Howard Rheingold

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We call the slope of a line m because the word "slope" begins wit... by Howard Whitley Eves

We call the slope of a line m because the word "slope" begins with the letter m.

Howard Whitley Eves

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Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications. by Horace Mann

Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.

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God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked. by Horace Mann

God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked.

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I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

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Success is empty if you arrive at the finish line alone. by Howard Schultz

Success is empty if you arrive at the finish line alone.

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At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line.

Hugh Bonneville

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My best pick-up line is "My name is Hugh Hefner." by Hugh Hefner

My best pick-up line is "My name is Hugh Hefner."

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Put temptation on the unenjoyment line. by Henry Rollins

Put temptation on the unenjoyment line.

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Someone once asked, 'What's your best pickup line?' I said, 'My best pickup line is, 'Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.''

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