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Quotes About Lines

Hutton noticed that if he used a pencil to connect points of equal height, it all became much more orderly. Indeed, one could instantly get a sense of the overall shape and slope of the mountain. He had invented contour lines.
~ Bill Bryson
News must also be about solving the problems that confront individuals and the community. There are lines between news and advocacy, but helping solve problems is different from advocacy.
~ Bill Kovach
Lord Wellington is in the Lines." It was a very curious phrase and if Strange had been obliged to hazard a guess at its meaning he believed he would have said it was some sort of slang for being drunk.
~ Susanna Clarke
There is a book waiting for him upon the library table; his eyes fancy they still follow its lines of type, his head still runs upon its argument, his fingers itch to take it up again.
~ Susanna Clarke
Nossos sonhos podem obscurecer as linhas intransigentes que desenham os contornos que nos aprisionam?
~ Sylvia Plath
Thats arguably what spy agencies do high-tech investigative journalism. Its time that the media upgraded its capabilities along those lines.
~ Julian Paul Assange
Do you know where the word 'itinerary' comes from?" Jacob asked as I scanned my perfectly formatted document of opening times and tips on how to bypass long lines and which routes to take during prime drive times. "What does this have to do with anything?" I countered. "Everything. It's from Latin, for 'journeys.' So trust me. You'll have fun.
~ Justina Chen
I always say investors invest in lines, not dots.
~ Payal Kadakia
We represent300 also all multiplications301 of light, which we carry to great distance, and make so sharp as to discern small points and lines; also all colorations of light:
~ Francis Bacon
Being unhappy alone isn't all that much fun, but what's even tougher is playing one's part without forgetting one's lines, coping with other people's compassion, their comments, being there with the right line when they give the cue.
~ Francois Maspero
You know the classic lines you get in sci-fi? Whatever it is, it's coming our way, or Get me the President on the line? Well, there's always the one about the enemy being superior, though by the end of the story you mostly feel cheated. This time you won't. The yrr are superior.
~ Frank Schätzing
To be frank with you, Melchior, I have almost the same feeling since I read your explanation.——It fell at my feet during the first vacation days. I was startled. I fastened the door and flew through the flaming lines as a frightened owl flies through a burning wood——I believe I read most of it with my eyes shut.
~ Frank Wedekind
I read your explanation.——It fell at my feet during the first vacation days. I was startled. I fastened the door and flew through the flaming lines as a frightened owl flies through a burning wood——I believe I read most of it with my eyes shut.
~ Frank Wedekind
intentions than ability when it came to coloring inside the lines. And
~ Brandon Mull
I can tell you that from the director's chair, young actors love to be challenged, to be given killer lines that take time to wrap their mind around.
~ Mark Waters
I travel to Chicago a lot. And I've followed Obama through his Senate race and beyond. I found him to be an exceptional candidate who was able to transcend ethnic and racial lines.
~ Sal Albanese
You play a hologram on 'Star Trek,' and you have to spew line after line. I spoke in paragraphs on 'Star Trek.'
~ Robert Picardo
Eventually, you know the rhythm of your character, of the set of the piece. It takes less energy for you to hit that point, and then everything resonates. But initially, it takes a tremendous amount of energy. You just hope it's gonna be okay and you don't forget your lines and those cameras.
~ Courtney B. Vance
With so much of music blurring the lines between ersatz and authenticity, at least the 'Rock Band' game is a tribute to rock rather than an affront.
~ Carrie Brownstein
I have always been good at auditioning, but maybe because I had a good trick at the beginning. I would pretend that my agent gave me the wrong scene or lines. They would take pity on me and hand me the right scene. I would act like I had never seen this before - and then do pretty well considering I had already rehearsed it.
~ James Marsden
Admittedly there could have been interbreeding between archaic and modern Homo sapiens, but there is no convincing evidence for this in our male and female gene lines. So
~ Stephen Oppenheimer
I was always the smallest role in community theater and school plays. I always had two lines - I was the kid that came on stage and said one thing and then left, and that was my part for the play.
~ Haley Lu Richardson
For young Americans in the 1960s, for whom the psychedelic experience was new in every way, the whole idea of involving elders was probably never going to fly. But this is, I think, the great lesson of the 1960s experiment with psychedelics: the importance of finding the proper context, or container, for these powerful chemicals and experiences. Speaking of lines, psychedelics in the 1960s did draw
~ Michael Pollan
I love books that rhyme. And I love books that are clever and have little lines in them that are meant to amuse the parents who will no doubt be reading the book over and over and over again.
~ Savannah Guthrie