Top 1200 Parallel Lines Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I love stories about artificial intelligence, and post-humanity, so I'm thinking along those lines.

In the end I sort of though we created a companion who was so alive and dynamic and so wedded to the doctor that you’d need a whole universe to contain her in. The only way to get rid of her is to send her into a parallel world from which she can never return; otherwise she would stay with the doctor forever.

I spend hours mowing the lawn in absolutely straight lines on my tractor. If it's not right, I do it again.

Officials and journalists live in parallel but separate realities; they see and talk to each other, may have a meal and gossip together, but their worlds never touch, because officials use words that don't mean what they say, while for those reporters in Vietnam - Halberstam, Peter Arnett, Morley Safer, and others - words were vessels of reality.

When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object either of that or some parallel proceeding, and to feel themselves, at the time, quite virtuous and moral, and immensely superior to those who express no pity at all. This is a kind of upholding of faith above works, and is very comfortable.

Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

None of the individual metal hunks of an airplane have the property of ?ight, but when they are attached together in the right way, the result takes to the air. A thin metal bar won't do you much good if you're trying to control a jaguar, but several of them in parallel have the property of containment. The concept of emergent properties means that something new can be introduced that is not inherent in any of the parts.

There are a lot of things that go on between the lines of a tennis court, mentally, physically and whatnot.

Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.

It doesn't matter whether it comes in by cable, telephone lines, computor, or satellite. Everyone's going to have to deal with Disney.

Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.

I am thrilled to be working with Shiseido and to be representing their incredible suncare, skincare, and makeup lines.

Pickup lines never work...I think someone clever, witty and funny is very attractive.

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

I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or the sister.

I just think that pick-up lines in general are horrible. None of them work.

It's not just about filming, you go to awards and interviews too. I enjoy all of it, even learning my lines!

Greyhound Bus Lines motto: "We Stop For Some Damn Thing Every 200 Yards."

It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to.

The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body.

I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.

I don't believe in pick-up lines because I've always been very comfortable in my own skin.

If an actor only comes alive when he has lines to say, it doesn't work, and the same goes for illustrated characters.

Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.

I text with my dad during every 'Scandal' episode. We talk story lines, acting, and fashion.

The women working at abortion clinics are really on the front lines and the true heroes of feminism.

If the guy behind the camera is not good, the pictures are bad. It's still you, and it's the same lines and everything, but it doesn't work.

I'm not into that method acting thing. I just turn up, say my lines and go home.

Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.

My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'.

If a man becomes more mature due to certain episodes in his life, it gives him the opportunity to look at life in a much more deep way. I believe the artist and the man work parallel, with the same feelings, the same soul, the same sensitivity.

There is a parallel between the twos and the tens. Tens are trying to test their abilities again, sizing up and experimenting to discover how to fit in. They don't mean everything they do and say. They are just testing. . . . Take a good deal of your daughter's behavior with a grain of salt. Try to handle the really outrageous as matter-of-factly as you would a mistake in grammar or spelling.

It's fun to do voiceover work, although you still have to act. But it doesn't involve memorizing lines, and you don't have to dress up.

Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live; and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scarvola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job.

We have an older sister who gets pregnant easily. So Emily and I think there may be an environmental cause for our problems. Neither of us were very old when we started trying. But we've lived very parallel lives. We've been in a band together since I was 12 and she was 10. We can't help but wonder, did we stay in a hotel near a power plant?

I ad lib most of my dialogue. If I did remember my lines, it would be too bad for me.

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

There's this assumption that as an actor, Hollywood is always the end point, but I never thought along those lines.

I think the actor has two responsibilities. One is to be visually compelling, and the other to recite the lines as written by the writers.

I am glad that I belong to this era of cinema where we are witnessing blurring lines between real and reel.

Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It's beautiful.

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.

I think with modelling and acting these days, the lines are blurred. Everyone can do all sorts of things, so why do just one?

Life is composed of lines of light, fibers of energy, pulsing, still, pure being.

So many people are on the front lines of this fossil fuel frenzy. It is infused with a sense of urgency.

That's the beauty of starting lines: Until you begin a new venture, you never know what awaits you.

You have hundreds of artists you're dealing with across the world and the scale of this movie [Kung Fu Panda] was insane - we had a parallel pipeline going on where you had two versions recording Mandarin voice actors, getting it to be funny for Mandarin audiences going beyond a straight translation, and then animating it and lighting it, it's a lot of work.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.

I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.

Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.

I notice faint scars on her wrists and forearms, thin lines too symmetrical to be accidents.

While many alternate reality stories ask, 'What might have been?' parallel universe stories literalize the war between good and evil that plays inside each of us every day. It's what makes this type of story so perfect for many fantasy tales: we're all just a coin flip away from being entirely different people.

For years I have told my students that I been trying to train executives rather than clerks. The distinction between the two is parallel to the distinction previously made between understanding and knowledge. It is a mighty low executive who cannot hire several people with command of more knowledge than he has himself.

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

Convergence and the blurring of lines across industries creates the opportunity for women to really excel.

Working keeps me young. Anything that exercises the brain like learning lines.

It seemed really amazing that you could write a few lines of code and have it learn to do interesting things.

A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men can tell. Assembling and dispersing with equal suddenness, it is as difficult to follow to its various sources as the sea itself; nor does the parallel stop here, for the ocean is not more fickle and uncertain, more terrible when roused, more unreasonable or more cruel.

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