1,029 Quotes About Lines

The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.

I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."

I had to let myself imagine a calendar with no lines; when every single day is being predetermined six months in advance, there's no more fluidity to time.

Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?

And it was, it was not beating George Bush, believe it or not, the bottom line as far as I was concerned was introducing to the public who Gerry Ferraro was.

… Her heart remained empty once more, and the procession of days all alike began again. So they were going to follow one another, like this, in line, always identical, innumerable, bringing nothing!

The workingmen have been exploited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody.