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Quotes About Lines

Malichai knew there wasn't much to see, other than he was combat-hardened. His experience showed in the lines in his face, in the calm he displayed under all conditions and the flat, cold look in his eyes.
~ Christine Feehan
No I just feel a little dizzy. You know, like when you try to read the newspaper in the car and all the lines start waving around and go blurry?" "That doesn't happen to me" "Oh.
~ Catherine Clark
All the boundaries of the world disappeared after a good snow. Nathan had always noticed that. The seemingly sturdy, dependable dividing lines between his yard and his neighbor's yard, or the sidewalk and the street, simply disappeared. Erased by white. As if the world were advising him not to put too much faith in such markings. That perhaps these lines had never been entirely real to begin with.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Mindannyian a hatalom szörny? hajtóm?vében élünk, amely csikorog, sípol és éget, és így senki sem mondja: a térképre rajzolt vonalak butaságok.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Mature trees, bark lacquered black, fingered upward. The twigs formed fine black traceries against the white sky. They reminded Jarret of pencil lines on snowy canvas.
~ Geraldine Brooks
As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.
~ Gianfranco Ferre
Caches are organized into equal-sized chunks called lines.
~ Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci
This is a contour map where I may read With reverence your soul's geography— The heights, the depths, stark valleys of our need, The luminous peaks of love's bright ecstasy. The lines become more lovely with the years...
~ Author Unknown
I had looked upon it as a simple task, what of the oars, mast, boom, and sprit, to say nothing of plenty of lines. But as I was without experience, and as every detail was an experiment and every successful detail an invention, the day was well gone before her shelter was an accomplished fact.
~ Jack London
My uncles and my father were all in the Royal Navy. One of my uncles, as a matter of fact, was drowned in the Sea of Singapore, having been fighting for the Royal Navy behind enemy lines, Japanese lines, in the hinterland of Singapore.
~ Vanessa Redgrave
When she smiles, the lines in her face become epic narratives that trace the stories of generations that no book can replace.
~ Curtis Tyrone Jones
You know if something is good because you remember the lines because it is written so well. The rhythm of the speech is spot on.
~ Rob James-Collier
But I like some chaos on the sets which brings in spontaneity both in the cast and the crew. If the actor knows his or her spot, where the light comes from and what lines to say, it's a rehearsed performance.
~ Nag Ashwin
Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.
~ Robert Englund
The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!
~ Ben Kingsley
Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red.
~ Marya Mannes
More than an adult comedy, 'Great Grand Masti' is a naughty horror comedy, more on the lines of 'Masti.'
~ Urvashi Rautela
Pickett's lines being nearer, the impact was heaviest upon them.
~ James Longstreet
Of course things like that complicate life, and there are all kinds of readjustments to think about, battles to fight and lines to draw.
~ Nick Hornby
His body was worn and weathered, his skin scratched with lines mapping the miles of his life.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
Spirit is to matter, as ice is to water, in other words: the same substance, but in a different state. As you admire the beauty of the intricate frost lacework on a winter windowpane, you might pause to reflect that invisible lines of force existed before the frost. The cold manifests the beauty of the lines of force.
~ Laurence Galian
Kummer hat etwas in den Linien deines Gesichts zu suchen, nicht in deiner Erinnerung.
~ Cees Nooteboom
It had all been an illusion, Lucien knew. The buildings, the arches, the sweeping, graceful lines. All this time he had been worshipping a facade of concrete and glass. Lucien
~ Charles Belfoure
Know, all who see these lines, That this man, by his appetite for honor, By his steadfastness, By his love for his country, By his courage, Was one of the miracles of the god.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay