I remember being taught in school that you would underline things that you liked. I remember just underlining everything as a kid, thinking, 'This has all gotta be important!' I would just underline the whole thing!
Solitude is used to teach us how to live with other people. Rage is used to show us the infinite value of peace. Boredom is used to underline the importance of adventure & spontaneity. Silence is used to teach us to use words responsibly. Tiredness is used so that we can understand the value of waking up. Illness is used to underline the blessing of good health. Fire is used to teach us about water. Earth is used so that we can understand the value of air. Death is used to show us the importance of life.
I don't like credit cards. Let me triple underline that.
I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too.
To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.
If there is anything that I think I might use later, I underline it.
The boldness of endurance is the underline to almost every success.
Days go by when I do nothing but underline the damp edge of myself.
Dampier is soft. Quote it, underline it, tape it and send it to him.
A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action.
If you're really mind-full, and if you underline that aspect of fullness, wholeness, or wholeheartedness, it reveals the gift character of everything.
The thing I don't want to do as a film composer is reiterate. I prefer to subtextualize or to underline rather than to say, 'This is what you should be feeling.'
I should like to underline: no people, no country, in which a Communist dictatorship has been established, ever found its way out of it.
[I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist] but that only goes to underline the point I'm trying to make about the need to broaden our account of the tradition!
We need to underline the need for Britain to depart from the European Union in an orderly fashion.