Quotes About Line

The artwork on my packaging was something I painstakingly micro-managed - for example, I treat it like a tattoo, taking into consideration the muscle structure and seeing were the line lands on the existing body.

It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes.

Excuse me, I have five pages. May I use the Xerox machine because I'm in a rush? The effectiveness of this request-plus-reason was nearly total: Ninety-four percent of those asked let her skip ahead of them in line.

There is a wonderful line in one of Cicero's letters to Atticus in which he describes moving into a property and says: I have put out my books and now my house has a soul.

There is a different beauty in simplicity, in a single line placed just so, a single flower among the rocks. The harshness of the stone makes the flower more precious.

There is a different beauty in simplicity, in a single line placed just so, a single flower among the rocks. The harshness of the stone makes the flower more precious. We try not to dwell too much on what is gone. The strongest heart will break under that strain.

Blood of our blood mixed with the old blood, raised by an ancient blood not ours.

The glow of the Power winked on around the women in the line, like a row of lanterns being lit.

At best, the line between historical fact and govrnmental fiction is cloudy; in cases of treason it tends to vanish entirely.

Ride with an outlaw, die with him, he added. I admit it's a harsh code. But you rode on the other side long enough to know how it works. I'm sorry you crossed the line, though. Jake's momentary optimism had passed, and he felt tired and despairing. He would have liked a good bed in a whorehouse and a nice night's sleep. I never seen no line, Gus, he said. I was just trying to get to Kansas without getting scalped.

I'll be a little riled if I end up being the one to die in the line of duty, because this ain't my duty and it ain't yours, either. This is just fortune hunting." "Well, we wasn't finding one

On the off chance that Niley was right and the spear was here, we couldn't let him have it. But it was more than that. Richard had drawn a line in the sand; good versus evil. Good can't tuck tail and run. It's against the rules. It

Anxiety, she thought, was like a flock of birds on a telephone line. When people came around they flapped off, and when the people went away they hopped back on.

There's a short story of Saki's that you remind me of. 'Romance at short notice was her specialty.' That's the last line, and doesn't it just fit you to a tee?

A real miracle's a reminder and a warning that the line that separates the possible from the impossible isn't as firm as we like to think it is.

When you're headin' for the border lord, you're bound to cross the line.   KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, «Border Lord»

I know," said Polly, and as gently as she was able said, "Have you thought about maybe another line of work?" "What, like making cakes?" Chris scoffed. "No, you see it's kind of different for me. I'm a professional." Polly decided it was best they leave before she hit him with the teapot.

In much postmodern theatre ... the line between theatre and non-theatre is deliberately erased.

And it's a long drive down the line to centerfield.

A line, a short line, stumbles off into the morning. Thirty two men.

Wasplike with their long slender hulls, these were ships not seen in these waters before. They approached in a line, each flying a large American flag. To the hundreds of onlookers by now gathered on shore, many also carrying American flags, it would be a sight they would never forget and into which they read great meaning. These were the descendants of the colonials returning now at Britain's hour of need....

What most likely caused the second event was the rupture of a main steam line, carrying steam under extreme pressure. This was Turner's theory from the beginning.

If the boy was here he would wet the coils of line, he thought. Yes. If the boy were here. If the boy were here.

But he could see the prisms in the deep dark water and the line stretching ahead and the strange undulation of the calm.