Quotes About Lines

The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the flags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls.

I'll make Goyle do lines, it'll kill him, he hates writing," said Ron happily. He lowered his voice to Goyle's low grunt and, screwing up his face in a look of pained concentration, mimed writing in midair. I... must... not... look... like... a... baboon's... backside.

With his bushy mustache and caterpillar eyebrows, Buckner was a dead-ringer for Harry Reems, the porn actor who'd just been convicted in Tennessee in April for conspiracy to distribute obscenity across state lines, thanks to his appearance in 1972's massively popular Deep Throat; and just like Reems, Buckner felt he was being prevented from making full professional use of his stick.

Like the foul lines, the foul poles are actually in fair territory.

In the summer after sixth grade, I took a class at St. Robert Bellarmine. My first role, I was the villain in a play, and I forgot all my lines. I think I cried my way through the performance.

The traditional villain has died a natural death. Today even a hero can portray a negative character. There are no lines drawn. The scope for actors like me has condensed.

He picked up his knife and started carving again. He concentrated on the lines and planes of the wood to keep his mind from wandering too far into the past. He had his own wounds that refused to heal.

The lines of his face were the longitude and latitude of his life. The

Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.

In an old house in Paristhat was covered with vineslived twelve little girls in two straight lines.

Ferdinand took up some books: he found them to contain strange unintelligible characters, circles and lines, with many curious plates; and from the little he could read, they seemed to be works on alchemy; he was aware already that the old man had the reputation of a gold-maker. A lute was lying on the table, singularly overlaid with mother-of-pearl, and coloured wood; and representing birds and flowers in very splendid forms.

Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like soap bubbles.

At the seaside all is narrow horizontals, the world reduced to a few long straight lines pressed between earth and sky.

At thee seaside all is narrow horizontals, the world reduced to a few long straight lines pressed between earth and sky.

So I just play the character, I play the lines.

Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.

I see lines of space. I break things down into lines and space, and I balance.

Charles liked poetry because the lines were so short. You could think your own thoughts in the spaces around the print.

internal trend lines are far more useful than conventional trend lines in defining potential support and resistance areas.

Lexington is not big enough to have clubs with long lines, but at least they don't have velvet ropes.

He smiled at me, and I saw the lines where other smiles had been.

the trackers, an even more pathetic collection of tatterdemalions than our porters of the morning, began to attach themselves resignedly to the lines. They had such sad faces!

Comic-Con has been an amazing experience. It's overwhelming, I have to admit, because of the lines and the crowds.