1,029 Quotes About Lines

  • Author Lauren Oliver
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    It was all very strange, Mr. Gray thought, as he wiped the coffee canister clean with a sponge. Very, very mysterious. You were born; you lived a whole life; and at the end, you wound up in a coffee canister. "Ah, well," he said out loud quietly. "That's just the way things are. Life's a funny business." Death, he supposed, was the punch line.

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  • Author Leo Ornstein
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    By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There’s no specific line, as you know.

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  • Author Major Owens
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    I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.

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  • Author Maureen O'Hara
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    I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.

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  • Author Peter O'Toole
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    It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines,

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  • Author Alexander Pope
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    Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.

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  • Author Anthony Perkins
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    I love my dad. He's the biggest thing in my life. He taught me and he straightened me out and he kept me in line. If it hadn't been for him standing behind me and pushing me and driving me, I wouldn't be where I am today.

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