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“Time was when medicine could do very little for critically ill or dying patients. Now it can do too much. Where to draw the line is the subject of a broad, heated debate throughout the country, a debate that becomes louder with each new medical miracle or impossible case.”

Littles Country Care Can Do Lines Cases Too Much Impossible Subjects Dying Draws Miracle Medicine Patient Ill Illness Medical Debate Health Care Broads

Author:Lisa Belkin

“A vertical line is dignity. The horizontal line is peaceful. The obtuse angle is action. That's universal, it is primary.”

Action Lines Dignity Universal Peaceful Primaries Angle Vertical Horizontal Horizontal Lines

Author:Janet Collins

“There will never be a successful person who, before performing a task, has doubts. Negative thoughts arise from recognizing that somewhere along the line your level of commitment has dropped below 100 percent. The winner will always be the person with the fewest doubts.”

Persons Success Lines Levels Successful Doubt Percent Commitment Negative Tasks Arise Winner Performing Recognizing Negative Thoughts Successful Person

Author:Nicole Haislett

“Theres a fine line between playing a dim-witted character and playing a cartoon.”

Character Lines Fine Cartoon Fine Lines

Author:Steven Pasquale

“If you silence yourself, if you try to be good, if you try to be polite, or toe a party line, you end up paying for that in the long run. You pay for it... with your homeland, or with your soul, or with your artistic vision.”

Ifs Trying Long Soul Ends Running Lines Party Pay Silence Vision Be Good Artistic Your Soul Long Runs Toes Polite Homeland Artistic Vision

Author:Diana Abu-Jaber

“Money can come and go, and fame comes and goes. Peace of mind and a relationship with God is far more important, so this is the precedent that we've set in our lives. The bottom line is, we all die, so Jesus is the answer.”

Mind Important Dies Jesus Lines Answers Our Lives Fame Bottom Peace Of Mind Bottom Line Comes And Goes Relationship With God Precedent Dynasty

Author:Phil Robertson

“Lizzie Harris's debut collection, Stop Wanting, crafts images and lines of such arresting splendor that I am very often driven to joy at the feats of beauty and healing that language is capable of bringing into being.”

Joy Language Lines Healing Capable Driven Crafts Collections Splendor Feats Debut Arresting

Author:Tracy K. Smith

“With lines that show an unyielding dedication to craft, these poems are not afraid of meaning or the meaningful. More and more every day, the thinking American asks how she is to believe in love when there is war all about her, and in each of her deeply felt lyrics, Elyse Fenton confronts this question with the kind of tenderness one lover reserves for another. If every poem is indeed a love poem,Clamor is indeed a debut worth reading and about which we must make noise.”

“To what or whom does Lizzie Harris direct the imperative title of her startling first book, Stop Wanting? To the reader, the narrator, to desire itself, or to lack? This is a work of complexly, ambiguously layered narratives and identities. The opening poem asserts I want to say what happened / but am suspicious of stories. These lines become an ars poetica for the whole of this painful and exceptional collection in which the unspeakable is stubbornly confronted by a searing eloquence. This is a commanding debut.”

“Lily Brown writes with and against things in poems that are coiled up tight as springs (or snakes). A believer in the power of the line, she writes, 'I think the plastics/and sink them' then 'Where is the sand/man hiding the dirt.' These terse, biting poems will make you look around and wonder.”

Thinking Men Writing Looks Lines Wonder Spring Believer Brown Sand Hiding Plastic Dirt Snakes Lilies Biting

Author:Rae Armantrout

“As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.”

Way I Can Actors Lines Roles

Author:Jennifer Westfeldt

“People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see if there's an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there's a tan line and the skin is pressed down where's he's worked a ring off his finger.”

People Ifs Looks Hands Left Lines Missing Skins Fingers Rings Businessman Tempting Left Hand Wedding Ring

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists.”

Thinking Might Difficult Lines Poet Novelists Beckett

Author:Kenneth Goldsmith

“The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer or other beauty product, I always perceive a dark subtext. The words haunt me. It comes across as humorous to the reader/audience, but in fact the words really do make me a little bit queasy. Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.”

“There's a spectrum of possibilities. You can underline the bass, or not at all. You can create something that is well-anchored or that is floating and never arriving. You can make a melodic line dominant or barely visible. The conducting gesture is akin to painting or sculpture.”

Wells Lines Possibility Painting Visible Gestures Dominant Floating Sculpture Spectrum Bass Arriving Conducting

Author:Laurence Equilbey

“I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era.”

Wells Three Lines Studios Eras Bass Amsterdam

Author:Ringo Starr

“There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky. I feel like tasteful is very unique...it's not necessarily wearing a bunch of chains - that could be either tasteful or tacky. It just depends on how you wear them and what kind of chains they are.”

Feels Kind Lines Depends Unique Bunch Chains Tacky

Author:Big Sean

“Every time I step in between those lines, I'm in the zone. If you get between me and the ball, you might get smashed a couple times. Things happen, plays happen.”

Ifs Play Might Happens Lines Steps Couple Balls Things Happen Zone

Author:Carli Lloyd

“I feel my spot is somewhere between a bass player and a rhythm guitar player. I play with a pick. I play very aggressively. I always have a distortion pedal in line, and I play less melodies and do more stuff against the guitars that create melodies.”

Feels Play Stuff Lines Player Picks Guitar Spots Rhythm Melody Bass Distortion Guitar Player Pedals Bass Players

Author:Nikki Sixx

“I used to smoke cigarettes, smoke dope, do smack, every f - - thing. First, I couldn't function without it. Then I couldn't do anything with or without it. Then I thought, "This is the end of the line for my fun days."”

Firsts Ends Used Fun Lines Function Smoke Cigarette Dope Smack Cigarette Smoke Fun Day

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“The Pixar people continuously amaze me. They come up with something that actually looks as though it takes place in this happy, real-world. Every plot line is not just plausible, but oddly authentic. The stories are full of adventure, humor and love. The characters are written with great human dimension. I don't know how they do it but they astound me.”

People Knows World Humans Looks Real Character Stories Lines Know How Written Adventure And Love Come Up Dimensions Plot Real World Plausible Pixar Plot Lines

Author:Tom Hanks

“[There's] a joke that I've done forever: 'Nowadays they say that the largest majority of people will be Latino and you'll tell scary stories to your grandkids: "A long time ago when I was growing up, there used to be people who were white," and the kid says, "Really?" and you say, "Yeah, like the man who cuts our grass."' I've had that line forever and I love it.”

People Men Long Done Stories Kids Used Lines White Forever Growing Up Cutting Growing He Man Long Time Jokes Yeah Majority Scary Used To Be Grass Long Time Ago Latino Grandkids Scary Stories

Author:George Lopez

“Without trying to get too self-indulgent, there's a fine line between making something that's soundtracky and cinematic, or making it sound like a bad 70s prog-rock record.”

Trying Self Sound Lines Records Rocks Fine Fine Lines Cinematic Self Indulgent

Author:Jason Reece

“All wishes create an upswing line when it is manifested. Therefore, together, it becomes an incredible upswing of power, whatever you wished. Of course, the more high level wishes, which covers the whole human race is stronger than wishing for getting ice cream for your dessert!”

Humans Whole Together Courses Wish Lines Levels Race Stronger Incredibles Ice Human Race Cream Ice Cream Dessert High Level

Author:Yoko Ono

“Sometimes you can do certain things on stage, or even in a TV series, and people see the look on your face and they know what you mean, so you can get away with certain things. But if you can't create that look on an animated character, which is essentially a puppet, the line will hit the audience in a very bad way.”

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Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“David Fincher is probably the best comprehensive director in terms of being a manger of a process that must drive forward. He has such confident command of cinema language and visual language and script and performance. He knows more about f-stops than any cameraman, he knows more about lighting than any gaffer, he is a wonderful writer, and he can give you a good line reading. Under pressure, he is the kind of guy who you will just dive in with and trust and follow because his vision is so intense.”

“I do think, where would kids be if it weren't for you and for the good pediatricians, and for the good parents? I passionately believe in sitting a child on your lap and tracing the lines of the book with your finger, and they can read before they know they can, if you bother enough. I did it with my kids, and they're doing it with their kids now.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Believe Children Book Enough Kids Parent Lines Sitting Fingers Bother Lap Good Parent Tracing Pediatrician

Author:Julie Andrews

“There's increasing consciousness that a "command and control" style of management which one associates with a male model isn't necessarily what works anymore, especially with small to medium sized companies. There's increasing evidence that a more flexible management style, where responsibility is distributed up and down the line, is what works best. And that kind of management style is one that will allow individual workers more flexibility - men and women.”

“There's a huge difference between being a replaceable cog on the assembly line and being the one who is missed, the one with a unique contribution, the one who made a difference.”

Made Differences Lines Huge Unique Contribution Assembly Cogs Assembly Line

Author:Seth Godin

“We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in movement, they're always twisting back on each other. I think the straight line is such a lie.”

Thinking Lying Lines Fiction Movement Straight Lines Fiction Writers Mazes Flux

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment.”

Way Action Certain Lines Punishment Reactions Treated Scenarios Action And Reaction

Author:Lance Armstrong

“Stand-up isn't something I just sit down and start writing - it's ideas you come up with in the shower, while you're driving, waiting in line.”

Writing Ideas Waiting Lines Down And Come Up Driving Showers Waiting In Line

Author:Chris Hardwick

“I wanted to give men an accessible line of clothing that's comfortable yet stylish and will help them to present the best version of themselves. It's easy - when you look good, you feel good.”

Men Giving Feels Looks Helping Wanted Easy Lines Comfortable Versions Feel Good Clothings Stylish

Author:Cam Newton

“I'm not a subscriber to walking into large corporate entities that I have to walk into and be waiting in line, because then I have to stand there.”

Waiting Lines Walks Walking Corporate Entity Waiting In Line

Author:Mariah Carey

“Aside from eating healthy and taking care of my body, I've always been passionate about skincare. It's an essential part of my daily regimen, which is why I decided to create my own skincare line, DEVONNE by Demi. When my skin is clean, I feel my best!”

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Author:Demi Lovato

“Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the smell of onion or quince. Auden has a line: "Ports have names they call the sea." Just so will literature describe life familiarly, regionally, in terms life is accustomed to use -- high or low matters not. Literature cannot by this impulse betray the grandeur of its subject -- there is only one subject: What it feels like to be alive. Nothing is irrelevant. Nothing is typical.”

Source: Brown: The Last Discovery of America

“I wanted to write; I sought all possible paths of personal liberation, but I could never sacrifice a living instant of life for the sake of a line to be written, my balance for the sake of a manuscript, a storm within me for the sake of a poem. I loved life itself too much for this.”

Writing Wanted Lines Path Too Much Written Sacrifice Balance Sake Storm Liberation Instant Manuscripts

Author:Nina Berberova

“My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out of the cupboard.”

Writing I Can Poetry Fall Sound Lines Ears Pot Cupboards Pots And Pans

Author:Jane Kenyon

“Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction: a kind of forced labor culminating in the production of another soul for God. What kind of a God stands like Lee Iacocca at the end of an assembly line, driving his workers with a greedy 'More! More!' while the automobiles pile up in showrooms and on freeways and in used-car lots and finally junkyards, his only satisfaction the gross production figures at the end of every quarter?”

“A line, once crossed, can never be uncrossed.”

Lines

Author:Nancy Mairs

“Oftentimes, what seems to be a street lunatic charging at me spouting gibberish turns out to be a devoted 'Simpsons' fan quoting their favorite line.”

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Author:Matt Groening

“I found myself face to face with a long line of people resembling extras off the set of Night of the Living Dead: shuffling along, pale and twitching, empty cups in hand -- murderous. Miserable. No matter that the air was rich with vapors of fresh-ground beans and warm muffins; no matter that the soft piped-in Vivaldi poured over us like steamed milk. These angry zombies were rushing to work, and their eyes flashed fair warning: Don't mess with us. We haven't had our coffee.”

“The conundrum that I face on a daily basis is that I have two sons who have grown up watching 'The Simpsons,' so they know exactly what buttons to push. They know how Bart irritates Homer, and they use these lines against me to tell me that I'm not funny anymore.”

Knows Two Use Faces Lines Know How Son Bases Buttons Conundrums

Author:Matt Groening

“You should pull him back besides in all the lines before the quarter, just as you make the others advance.”

Should Lines Quarters

Author:William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle

“I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called "A Banquet for the Moon." It was a weird play.”

Firsts Stills Play School America Lines Moon Theater Architect Banquets

Author:Mako Iwamatsu

“If you are reading a large newspaper, all spread out on the table, your cat will come and sit on the very paragraph you are reading, the talented cat draping her tail with miraculous precision over the very line you're not finished with.”

Ifs Reading Lines Cat Tables Spread Finished Newspapers Tails Miraculous Precision Paragraph

Book:The Cat's Pajamas

Source: The Cat's Pajamas

“Words? I tell you not to write me letters; I command you. Is it not enough to want you so in vain, but you send me what evokes you here before me -- this paper, all along whose lines your hand has lain?”

Want Writing Enough Hands Lines Paper Letters Command Vain Evoke

Book:Nadine and Other Poems

Source: Nadine and Other Poems

“Once war consisted of individual combats between armed men. Later it was waged between lines of men in opposing trenches. Now it is organized slaughter of whole populations.”

Men War Whole Individual Lines Population Organized Combat Slaughter Opposing Trenches Between The Lines

Book:Kirby Page and the social gospel: an anthology

Source: Kirby Page and the social gospel: an anthology

“As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line.”

Wells Reason Lines Straight Lines Ascent Hegel

Book:Political Econ of Growth

Source: Political Econ of Growth

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