Top 1200 Between The Lines Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

It was a kind of siren song that called me out to the front lines.

I can memorise Tamil lines fast. I feel at home speaking the language.

I get up at five in the morning if the schedule demands it and with all my lines learned.

I've been dubbing my own lines in Tamil for some time now.

To be a leader, regardless of what party you're in, is to tell your followers what lines not to cross.

I had a memory span about as long as the lines in a school play.

I arm myself with punch lines and a big old water gun.

I'm sure I've said some pretty bad pick-up lines.

So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like, "a clash of civilisations" and "collateral damage". The sophistry and fastidious algebra of infinite justice.

Being born is easy. So is taking your last breath. Everything in between, that's the hard part. Life is in between, and it will offer challenges and opportunities beyond measure.

People on the front lines have the best ideas for how to improve things.

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

I find vacuuming very therapeutic. I like the lines it makes on the carpet.

Baseball is a great example of the cultural ties between the United States and Cuba and a powerful reminder of the shared experience between people that transcends our difficult history.

It is an essential part of the interpretive work that it should keep in step with fluctuations between love and hatred, between happiness and satisfaction on the one hand and persecutory anxiety and depression on the other.

Learn your lines so well that you never have to worry about them.

If I had to write a novel, I'd start crying after three lines.

There is an intimacy and trust that is needed between leaders, between their assistants and advisers. Usually, you have the real substance behind closed doors; and the press conferences, you have niceties, nice photo ops.

The Theatre of the Absurd has renounced arguing about the absurdity of the human condition; it merely presents it in being - that is, in terms of concrete stage images. This is the difference between the approach of the philosopher and that of the poet; the difference, to take an example from another sphere, between the idea of God in the works of Thomas Aquinas or Spinoza and the intuition of God in those of St. John of the Cross or Meister Eckhart - the difference between theory and experience.

You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ``the good life,'' which had not been anticipated in our philosophy.

I'm really bad at memorizing, so that's one of my big struggles in an audition setting, with the lines.

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.

Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.

Polarisation on religious lines for political gains shall not be on the BJP's agenda.

I went along to the audition and I had one page of lines, and I didn't think it went particularly well.

I've been beating my head all day long on the same six lines.

The self is like a pimping blackmailing chauffeur who gets you from here to there on word lines.

There's going to be biological differences between the genders. There's going to be biological differences between two women or two men. There's biological differences between all of us. My concern is, why are we so concerned about it?

The fiction Im most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.

Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.

A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

I'd love to do a musical on the lines of 'Salangai Oli,' 'Sankarabharanam' and 'Sindhu Bhairavi.'

Life doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good conversation.

Knowledge is the raw material of production and value in this age. It used to be that the main difference between people in our society was between those who have more and those who have less. Today, however, the difference is between those who know more and those who know less.

Sin comes when communication lines are down - it always does, sooner or later.

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

Between the ages of six and nine, my palette was taking shape as well as my identity as a chef. It was then that I learned the difference between salty, sweet, sour and even spicy.

Relationships are more important than punch lines, ya know?

The underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding, irksome diversity, while still insisting on a set of values that binds us together, and those who would seek, under whatever flag or slogan or sacred text, a certainty and simplification that justifies cruelty toward those not like us.

The conflict between the creatures of Native Lore and the immigration of the European preternatural hosts is hinted at in 'Blood Bound' and reflects the conflicts between the human immigrants and the Indian people who were already here.

She wrote poetry constantly; that was her "work". She was a slow bleeder and she slaved over it for long, exhausting hours, and many a middle of a night I could hear her creaking around the dead house with a pen in one hand, a clipboard and a flashlight in the other, refining her poems, jotting down the lines of a conceit. Writing never came easy for her; it gave her calluses. She never courted the muses, she wrestled them, mauled them all over the house and came up, after weeks of peripatetic labor, with a slim Spencerian sonnet, fourteen lines of imagistic jabberwocky.

Straight lines vary only in length, and therefore are least ornamental.

I didn't stutter when I was reading lines in a script. When I got away from myself, I didn't have that problem.

Improv acting is not just saying the lines but connecting with the other actor.

Posh was my favorite Spice Girl but she didn't have that many lines to sing.

No two countries are identical, and obviously, there's a difference between a referendum on a very complex relationship between Great Britain and the rest of Europe, and a presidential election in the United States.

The difference in this town - here in Washington - on the war is not between Democrats and Republicans; it's between people who believe essentially we've already lost in Iraq and it's time to get out - and most of the rest of us.

I try to play Hogan in an off-hand throwing lines way.

In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.

To be amongst people that know their lines and you're the only person that doesn't is just bizarre.

I see different artists making clothing lines and people respected it.

When you're able to rely on four lines and every D and both goalies, it's big.

But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.

You can never know your lines well enough, and you better listen.

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

I do what I do and hope that it might connect with people who are thinking along the same lines.

More than anyone else, Adolf Hitler completely understood the union between government propaganda and between - and advertising, that they were in some ways the same thing.