1,029 Quotes About Lines

  • Author Tracy Morgan
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    I'm not really much into politics, because it's rarely discussed in my line of work.

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I'm not really much into politics, because it's rarely discussed in my line of work.

-Tracy Morgan

  • Author Van Morrison
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    You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

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You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

-Van Morrison

  • Author Vladimir Mayakovsky
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    In our language rhyme is a barrel. A barrel of dynamite. The line is a fuse. The line smoulders to the end and explodes; and the town is blown sky-high in a stanza.

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In our language rhyme is a barrel. A barrel of dynamite. The line is a fuse. The line smoulders to the end and explodes; and the town is blown sky-high in a stanza.

-Vladimir Mayakovsky

  • Author Walter Martin
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    I feel more productive, mostly because I feel like my ass is on the line. Before I had kids, I would sit around, drink, I don't even know what I did with myself...

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I feel more productive, mostly because I feel like my ass is on the line. Before I had kids, I would sit around, drink, I don't even know what I did with myself...

-Walter Martin

  • Author Yukio Mishima
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    Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

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Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

-Yukio Mishima

  • Author Alfred Nobel
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    Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

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Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

-Alfred Nobel

  • Author Campbell Newman
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    I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.

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I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.

-Campbell Newman

But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?

-Diana Nyad

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

-Fridtjof Nansen

 

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