Quotes on Line

Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.

What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for.

I'm not a theoretician about playwriting, but I have a strong sense that plays have to be pitched - the scene, the line, the word - at the exact point where the audience has just the right amount of information. It's like Occam's razor.

When I was writing my first novel, 'Where the Line Bleeds,' which had young black men as its main characters, I was very invested in telling the story and also very worried about the effects the story would have.

Weaknesses have a certain function in a poem... some strategy in order to pave the reader's way to the impact of this or that line.

Bottom line, I have to follow what my soul says, or my spirit. And my spirit said that poetry and the arts should be without borders, should be without political borders.

Wanting to be liked means being a supporting character in your own life, using the cues of the actors around you to determine your next line rather than your own script. It means that your self-worth will always be tied to what someone else thinks about you, forever out of your control.

In the final analysis, finding a way to do clean business and not to pay bribes actually improves your bottom line.

My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion.

Why should I dislike anything about my appearance? I came off the factory line this way. I am perfect.

Perfectionism and procrastination have such a fine line. You say, 'Well, I want it to be good. I want it to be perfect.' But what you're really doing is not doing your work. You're putting off showing up and being visible because then you're going to be judged, and it might suck.

My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn't have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

When I was very young, I took no interest in party politics. My line of interest was how can you be part of an influence to the society that you live in.

I'm different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I'm thinking about what I'm going to do tomorrow. It's as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.

After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism.

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.

When we have any function, whether it's language or vision or cognitive functions like memory, we aren't dealing with a straight line to the brain that says 'This is what I do.' The brain builds a network of connections, a network of neurons that have a particular role in that function.

There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.

Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line.