Quotes About Line

The Hollywood Film Awards were really stressful. It was the biggest press line I'd ever seen.

Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.

Riding in advance, we passed over one of these great plains; we looked back and saw the line of scattered horsemen stretching for a mile or more; and far in the rear against the horizon, the white wagons creeping slowly along.

Without Social Security benefits, more than 40 percent of Americans 65 years and older would live below the federal poverty line. Even more striking is that Social Security is the only source of retirement income for almost a quarter of elderly beneficiaries.

General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle.

In my view the structure of the whole atom was that of an individual, with all its parts interconnected, and the emission of a spectral line appeared to me to be the result of the coherence and co-operation of several electric quanta.

At the end of the day, there's a line full of people that want to fight Canelo and there's champions that maybe fought better opposition than me, but the reason why is because these people didn't want to fight me.

I will not put the life of an American service member on the line unless that is the option of last resort.

Using a weight-forward line's shooting properties is a much more efficient way to get distance.

The Line had been drawn a century earlier to separate the Aboriginal people incarcerated on the nearby mission from the good white settlers of Deane.

Mary, radiant, her charm turned to its brightest candle-power, is greeting the Blairs, who are part of a long receiving line.

walked through a small park and up the steps of the stern gray building of US Customs and Border Protection. I strolled down the ramp and pushed through a turnstile, no one looking at my passport. Glancing through the chain-link fence on the Mexican side of the building, I saw a line of people—a long line, stretching down the stairs and through a foyer and along a passageway, hundreds, perhaps a thousand people waiting to enter the United States.

Operation Hold the Line in 1993 in the El Paso sector.

Operation Hold the Line in 1993 in the El Paso sector. "The idea was to put a huge number of Border Patrol agents in urban areas

We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.

he line has almost become a work of art in itself; one can not play with it when the representation of objects perceived was all-important.

The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.

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.

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

Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio describes emotions as the "continuous musical line of our minds, the unstoppable humming."3

It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity. I bet this kind of thing does not happen to heroin addicts. I bet that when serious heroin addicts go to purchase their heroin, they do not tolerate waiting in line while some dilettante in front of them orders a hazelnut smack-a-cino with cinnamon sprinkles.

Actually, the term drove is misleading when applied to travelling across the prairies; a better verb might be pointed, which is all one has to do when moving in a straight line with about ten thousand feet between vehicles.

If I go back to the beginning, I could start it over again. I could go line by line; try and find a shorter way. I could try to make it... better.

Come on, soldier, you put your life on the line for your country. A damn zipper shouldn't be too hard.