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I look up to Martha Stewart, and I love that she has product lines that are true extensions of her brand. — Tyra Banks

Like almost every truly horrible thing that has ever happened in the history of our world, the end also began with a kiss. — Dennis Sharpe

Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life? — Mary Chapin Carpenter

Inside the book between the lines, was a place to rest and absorb the magic — SARK

When you do enough research, the story almost writes itself. Lines of development spring loose and you'll have choices galore. — Robert McKee

We'll know for the first time If we're evil or divine We're the last in line. — Ronnie James Dio

This was life though, wasn't it? Death made you crave life. The world is nothing but a bunch of thin lines separating what we think are extremes. — Harlan Coben

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business. — Edward Heath

Reality is the only place you can deal from. If you're still worrying about the way things should be, you haven't even approached the starting line. — Georgette Mosbacher

Life's a circle. There are no lines we can cross. — F.K. Preston

Happiness is the exercise of talent, along the lines of excellence. — Aristotle.

The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies [is] to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995. — Capers Jones

Energy moves in cycles, circles, spirals, vortexes, whirls, pulsations, waves, and rhythms - rarely if ever in simple straight lines. — Starhawk

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. — Italo Calvino

I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour. — John Irving

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code. — Ken Thompson

Don't be late. Learn your lines. Be good to people. Treat people nice. — Rhys Ifans

I've been offered a lot of things that celebrities do that I wouldn't do, like perfumes, lines of clothing and this, that and the other. — Gloria Estefan

A bride should look chaste - not caught. — Roberta Pearce

Mother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce. — Phil Ochs

If you don't use an image now you might have a place to put it in further down the line - and I have a lot of unfinished drawings. — Raymond Pettibon

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design. — Gianfranco Ferre

It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion ... — Abraham Lincoln

I'll write lines or words in a notepad. You work on little things and little parts; sometimes they turn into bigger songs. — Albert Hammond Jr.

He liked radical politics and had a fondness for chocolate. — Laura Kinsale

It takes all my strength not to snap at these cowards who will never see the front lines or send their children to — Victoria Aveyard

When a naked man shows up on your doorstep with a bear trap clamped around his ankle, it's best just to do what he asks — Molly Harper

When the ball is on the one-yard line, never risk a fumble. Carry it over yourself. — Robert Ringer

She was a large, disordered woman, like a child's drawing that didn't stay within the lines. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Almost all countries have natural dividing lines, and when ethnic and religious partition occurs in one country, it'll soon happen elsewhere. — Bashar Al-Assad

Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present. — Kurt Vonnegut

I know I love sexy surf guitars, I know I love loud snare. I love really simple repeating bass lines, and I love weird mad scientist keyboard sounds. — Kathleen Hanna

Simply adored Timothy Schaffert's The Coffins of Little Hope: the voice of Essie, the narrator, is terrific & the last line blew me away. — Nancy Pearl

Embrace an effortless a-line silhouette in the seasons must have indigo shades. — Lubov Azria

People recite lines to me all the time, anywhere I get recognized. — Steven Bauer

Python is executable pseudocode. Perl is executable line noise. — Bruce Eckel

Now you'll have to wait for hours in line for medical care instead of immediately not getting any. — Stephen Colbert

I like lines, I earn mine. — Sue Grafton

I don't believe it is in the state's interest to industrialize our ridge lines. — James H. Douglas

I am Tersa the Weaver, Tersa the Liar, Tersa the Fool. — Anne Bishop

I didn't know there were different lines of aliveness, and two worlds contained by each other. — Lynda Barry

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. — Ian McKellen

If you think you know what I'm doing wrong well you're gonna have to get in line ... — Ani DiFranco

Jason's heart lifted when he saw Nico di Angelo on the front lines with the Greeks, slashing his way through a crowd of two-headed men. — Rick Riordan

Show me three lines of the opening theory moves and I will prove to you that two of them are incorrect. — Emanuel Lasker

Resistance is greatest just before the finish line. — Steven Pressfield

There's a very fine line between anxiety and excitement. If you don't let anxiety stop you, you can nudge it over the line. — Robert Anthony

Benevolence today has become altogether too huge an undertaking to be conducted otherwise than on business lines. — Julius Rosenwald

Ax." Sadie is breathless as she caresses the angular lines of my face. "I love you so much. You're my whole world. You know that, right? — Siobhan Davis

Reading functions as hallucinating a meaning between letters and lines. — Friedrich Kittler

The line comes before meaning. — Paul Reps

Usually [the lyrics] go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too. — Stephen Malkmus

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Give a man a few lines of verse and he thinks he's the Lord of all Creation. — Ray Bradbury

My process is I try to learn my lines so they're so solid I don't have to think about them or how I'm going to say them. — Josh Pais

Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve. — Roald Dahl

I think it's very improtant and healthy to tell differnt stories than the corporatist narratives we are being asked to swallow hook, line and sinker. — John Cusack

At three o'clock this afternoon Evelyn Wastneys died. I am Evelyn Wastneys, and I died, standing at the door of an old country home in Ireland... — Mrs. George De Horne Vaizey

What power there is in our service when our actions line up with our mission, skills and joy. — Mary Anne Radmacher

The line between outside and inside is fuzzier in fantasy. Maybe that's something people are looking for. — Lev Grossman

The bad guys probably get the better lines, don't they? And they wear less spandex. That would be quite good. — David Tennant

What a lark! What a plunge! — Virginia Woolf

It is security that I crave and money provides security. What is that old line about money? "Some is good, more is better and too much is just right." — Neil Oliver

Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line. — Walter Scott

God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked. — Horace Mann

Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line. — Amy Lowell

Working 9 to 5 is structure. But tying lines together all hours of day is structure at its best performing magic. — C.C. Wyatt

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. — J.K. Rowling

Bo Derek turned down the role of Helen Keller because
she couldn't remember the lines. — Joan Rivers

How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light. — Dar Williams

The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights. — Muhammad Ali

Listen. The Sanctuary of the Redeemers on Shotover Scarp is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes on there and less sanctuary — Paul Hoffman

These lines are hooks, I'm fishing unknown seas. — Mark Lawrence

Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion. — Paul Theroux

Cheesy lines like that will get you nowhere with me, but, by all means, keep them coming. You're so much easier to ignore when you're being an idiot. — Kelly Oram

As a friend once pointed out, the crotchety dowagers do tend to get all the best lines. That may be why I have so many of them in my books. — Lauren Willig

This guy had more lines than loose-leaf. — Cara Lynn Shultz

If you want to make true love to me, take this paper and fill up the white space in-between the blue lines. — Delano Johnson

Entertainment has a bad name ... The word wears spandex, pasties, a leisure suit studded with blinking lights. — Michael Chabon

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines. — Jodi Picoult

The top line is that hubris is a disease that comes from success. — Peter Beinart

The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon. — William Golding

The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood. — Mark Helprin

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.
[Libraries on the Front Lines, ALA interview 2011] — Neil Gaiman

This is the Torture Room. But don't let the name fool you. This is a tent, not a room. — Jeremy C. Shipp

The nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel. — Pierre Berton

Unless there is a new mind there cannot be a new line, the old will go on repeating itself with recurring deadliness — William Carlos Williams

Acting lessons teach you to really listen to what the other person is saying because in acting it's all about responding to the lines. — Tommy Mottola

Poorly written books are a kin to actors forgetting their lines. — Peggy Randall-Martin

Nobody ever oohs and aahs over wiring conduits and sewer lines. — Ian Tregillis

God will dare to do the impossible in your life if you dare to step across the faith line. — Kenneth Copeland

The bottom line is that it's better to run a workforce on security than insecurity. — Jared Bernstein

Learn your lines ... plant your feet ... look the other actor in the eye ... say the words ... mean them. — James Cagney

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story. — Karen Kingsbury

While Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the 1967 lines. — Benjamin Netanyahu

A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom. — Gary Saul Morson

It don't mean nothing til you sign it on the dotted line. — Richard Marx

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. — Bill Gates

The shadows of the room pool in the lines of our faces, draining our eyes of hue. There's nothing left worth saying. — Isaac Marion

If your habits don't line up with your dream, then you need to either change your habits or change your dream — John C. Maxwell