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Quotes About Lines

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~ James Joyce
fuzzy black lines hiccuped across the screen.
~ James Patterson
Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it.
~ Thomas Jane
They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines.
~ Bobby Seale
I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or the sister.
~ Sharon Horgan
My first job after drama school was with Stanley Kubrick. It was only a few lines in 'A Clockwork Orange', but I was working with a master of cinema.
~ Carol Drinkwater
Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.
~ John Cusack
I don't consciously sit down thinking I'm blurring genre lines, for the most part. I try to stay focused solely on serving the needs of the particular story on which I'm working.
~ Paul G. Tremblay
When I worked on Altar Boys, they wanted to see us having fun. The four of us would have fun on set and steal each other's lines, and mess with the director.
~ Kieran Culkin
Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation; you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout; in the galley you're cooking.
~ Billy Campbell
Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration's current policy affects that legality; 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government.
~ Roger Wicker
Once during a taping there was an actor who kept blowing his lines. It happened again and again. Finally Norman Fell came out-he wasn't even in that scene. But Norman came out and you know what he did? He killed the guy with a hammer.
~ John Ritter
Nuclear missiles don't discriminate on party lines when they land.
~ Trent Franks
Al-Qaeda's supporters] are aware of the cracks in the Western financial system as they are aware of the lines in their own hands
~ Osama bin Laden
That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick.
~ Connie Willis
All the trunk lines have been engaged. The Americans have been trying to reach Ely to cancel their concert, but the lines are jammed.
~ Connie Willis
Eccentric doesn't bother me. Eccentric being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay.
~ Crispin Hellion Glover
The war has naught to do with slaves, cried Congress, the President, and the Nation; and yet no sooner had the armies, East and West, penetrated Virginia and Tennessee than fugitive slaves appeared within their lines.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
It emphasized rationality and functionality by employing clean lines and forms. Among the maxims preached by Mies and Gropius were "God is in the details" and "Less is more.
~ Walter Isaacson
Yeah, good to see you too. Her hand stays on the gun. "Did I say it was good to see you, Joe? "No, but I always try to read between the lines. Figured you going for your gun was how you express affection these days.
~ Charlie Huston
Several people toss and turn in their sleep, startled by the lines of the newspapers in their dreams, knives out, lights out, lights out, knives out!
~ H.C. Artmann
Even her powders and face paint couldn't disguise the age lines and gripe lines that ran as deep as the railway tracks some said were bound to cross our mountain any day so.
~ Jane Yolen
Papa wasn't like them, with lines like cursive writing up and down their faces.
~ Jane Yolen
Sally put his gun back in his pants. Guess I flunked the estrogen test. We all stared at his crotch, and Grandma said what Lula and I were thinking. I thought that bulge was your dingdong,Grandma said. Jesus, Sally said, who do you think I am, Thunder the Wonder Horse? My gun wouldn't fit in my purse. You need to get a smaller gun, Lula said. Ruins your lines with that big old Glock in your drawers.
~ Janet Evanovich