1,029 Quotes About Lines

The straightest line between a straight distance is two points.

The good lord tripped me up behind the line of scrimmage.

A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement.

There is the old catch-22 line that a mentally unstable person can't know, as per their illness, that they are unstable. But that was wrong. You can and do have the insight to see your own crazy.

I've taken my knickers off. My friends told me my panty line was visible, so I went without.

An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that have been permanently discontinued.

The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow.

The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing on.

Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book.