Quotes About Line

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

'Fargo' was the turnaround for me, in terms of film, because it was a part; it wasn't a line.

A tree root won't get into your sewer line unless there's something already wrong with your sewer line. I know most people don't want to hear that, but it's true

The enemy has assailed my outposts in heavy force. I have fallen back on the line of Bull Run and will make a stand at Mitchell's Ford.

There is nothing preventing the enemy reaching Paris. We were fighting on our last line and it has been breached. I am helpless, I cannot intervene.

But what I will do is I'll acknowledge it and if it can be of any help the fact that I do acknowledge it then maybe other people will benefit from it because I do have somewhat of a public forum being in the line of work I am.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity.

I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or sestina or any of that. For me, it's a kind of line. It's a rhythm. It's something musical.

Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed.

Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have.

It sounds like a media line, but I'm passionate about thanking the fans for their support.

I was born just barely south of the Mason Dixon line.

Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.

I read the line over and over as if I might discern the little fires set the flames of an idea licking the page how knowledge burns

It does, Tennyson, because there's a fine line between confidence and arrogance. There's a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And you're on the wrong side of both lines.

As your older brother, it's my sacred duty to save you from yourself. She brings her fists down on the table, making all the dinner plates jump. The ONLY reason you're fifteen minutes older than me is because you cut in front of the line, as usual!

Suffice it to say that Goddard is the most recent in a long line of scythes who look up into the night sky and see not the stars, but the darkness between them.

Those looking for a tale of cultural superiority can find it in zero; those looking for failure can find it in the wheel. Neither line of argument is useful, though. What

The sound of his yearning had no melodic line.

Confidence is on one side of the line, and self-belief is on another. People all think those are mixed up.

There is no wall between a tactical and a strategic nuclear exchange, just a fuzzy line in the imagination of the amateurs and academics who advise their political leaders.

The best enemies are fabricated enemies for two reasons: one, we have nothing to worry about, and two, the populace falls in line.

But he's happy to draw the distinctions between us. Within minutes of learning about our common conflict zones he tells me, without a whiff of irony, "I hate journalists." "Get in line," I tell him. It's not like I haven't heard the sentiment before.