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"Nagging questions remain Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter." »Henry Anatole Grunwald
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"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line." »Oscar Levant
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"There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts." »Christine Lavin
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"A poet that reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits." »Robert A. Heinlein
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"A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits." »Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1978
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"It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous." »Andy Warhol
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"Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content." »Alfred De Musset
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"Answer That you are here---that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse." »Walt Whitman
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"What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept" »Robert Browning
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"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo." »Don Marquis
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"The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"In one short verse I here express The sum of tomes of sacred lore: Beneficence is righteousness, Oppression?s sin?s malignant core." »Sanskrit Proverb
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"Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. 'Light Give me light' was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour." »Helen Keller
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"The dull-hued turkey apes the gait Of lordly peacock, richly plumed; And thus the poetaster shows When he would fain his verse recite." »Hindu Poetess
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"Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song." »Luther
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"Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all." »Sbastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
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"People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"All human things are subject to decay,And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obeyThis Flecknoe found, who like Augustus youngWas call'd to empire, and had govern'd longIn prose and verse, was own'd, without disputeThrough all the realms of nonsense, absolute." »John Dryden
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"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to." »Elvis Presley
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"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line." »Lucille Ball
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"Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere." »G. K. Chesterton
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"You guys line up alphabetically by height." »Bill Peterson, Florida State football coach
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"Who cares whose more talented,its who crosses line 1st" »T.Q Hufkie
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"And it's a long drive down the line to centerfield." »Jerry Coleman
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"Every persons are bounded within a secrete line." »Prakash Adhikari
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"Who cares whose more talented,its who crosses line 1st" »T.Q Hufkie
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"...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language." »Paul Valery
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"There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it." »Maya Angelou
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"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace." »Oscar Wilde
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"There was a young man of Dundoo,
Whose limericks stopped at line 2." »Anonymous
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