#lines

Dimitri Belikov had arrived. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#dimitri-belikov #richelle

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines. ↗

— Emile Zola

#daily #deadlines #forges #style #terrible

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination. ↗

— Daphne Zuniga

#filling #i #i have learned #imagination #learned

Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#ugliness #beauty

History provides no precise guidelines. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#history #precise #provides

Beauty he loved for its own sake; ugliness, which more often than not was a form of inverted beauty, fascinated him. Life offered far too little of either, and far too much appalling mediocrity, which he thought hideous. ↗

— Lloyd Biggle Jr.

#life #mediocrity #ugliness #ugly #beauty

It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened. ↗

— Lois Lowry

#opening-lines #first-sentence

But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#blotted #characters #loneliness #mind #never

One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity. ↗

— Hal David

#degree #fall #his #learn #lines

I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, 'doesn't play well with others.' ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

#i #lines #once #others #outside