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Lining Quotes (page 57)

And a young prince must be prudent like that, giving freely while his father livesso that afterwards, in age when fighting startssteadfast companions will stand by himand hold the line. Seamus Heaney
She used a line from Trollope's Barchester Towers as an epigraph:"There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. Jeffrey Eugenides
Samuel Beckett quote: "For I shall be far away, before these lines are read, in a..."
For I shall be far away, before these lines are read, in a place where no one will dream of coming to look for me. Samuel Beckett
Nobody'd be different. The only thing that would be different would be you. Not that you'd be so much older or anything. It wouldn't be that, exactly. You'd just be different, that's all. You'd have an overcoat on this time. Or the kid that was your partner in line the last time had got scarlet fever and you'd have a new partner. Or you'd have a substitute taking the class, instead of Miss Aigletinger. Or you'd heard your mother and father having a terrific fight in the bathroom. Or you'd... J. D. Salinger
The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and the bickering and the prognostications and the turmoil, the disagreements and the fateful decisions and agreements and the plans and the programs and the threats and the counter threats, then you close your eyes and the sea dispatches one more big roller in the unbroken line since the beginning of the world and it combs and breaks and returns foaming and saying: "So... E. B. White
It was the stupidity of virility that impressed me--& how, having made those convenient railway lines of convention, the lusts speed along them unquestioning. Virginia Woolf
Thomas Pynchon quote: "Now single up all lines!"
Now single up all lines! Thomas Pynchon
William S. Burroughs quote: "The self is like a pimping blackmailing chauffeur who gets you..."
The self is like a pimping blackmailing chauffeur who gets you from here to there on word lines. William S. Burroughs
Roughly speaking, there are three kinds of people in the world…the division follows lines of real psychological cleavage. I do not offer it lightly. It has been the fruit of more than eighteen minutes of earnest reflection and research. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Thomas Mann quote: "Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in..."
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere. Thomas Mann
Neil Gaiman quote: "I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just..."
I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line. Neil Gaiman
I do not have the money anymore. It was all yours, after all. I slipped the check into the silk lining of the coffin when I kissed you good-bye for the last time. Jodi Picoult
But I do think that when people say 'a learning curve,' they make a mistake. Learning to me always seems to go in a straight, ignorant line and then, every so often, takes a jump straight upward. Diana Wynne Jones
Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line. William Goldman
One show, I did a benefit for a feminist organziation....So it's all feminsts. Gloria Steinem is sitting right up front. I walked out and said, "Look here, I can't stay around here too long with you broads because I gotta get home and cook my man a nice hot dinner. Plus, he likes his blow job by nine forty-five." I though it was funny. They didn't. They didn't find anything funny. I thought, Oh Lord, I made these women mad. I stepped over the line. I continued. "Ladies, calm down. I'm just... Wanda Sykes

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