Between The Lines Quotes

• Until the building of Solomons temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover, it is easy to read between the lines that even after that date it was more a pious wish than a practical demand.

  Julius Wellhausen

  Unity, Wish, Read Between The Lines

  Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

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• I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.

  Madeleine Stowe

  Beautiful, Support, Read Between The Lines

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• People have a responsibility, especially with today's media, to read between the lines.

  Rob Lowe

  Responsibility, Media, People

  "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.

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• Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mean, Lovely, Fiction

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.

  Serge Schmemann

  Art, Reading, Book

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• To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.

  Henry James

  Book, Reading, Read Between The Lines

  Henry James (2016). “Henry James: The Complete Novels [The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, etc.] (Book House)”, p.928, Book House

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• Is there anybody listening? Is there anyone who sees what's going on? Read between the lines, criticize the words they're selling. Think for yourself, and feel the walls become sand beneath your feet.

  Geoff Tate

  Wall, Thinking, Feet

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• Just so you know, when they say "Once upon a time” . . . they’re lying

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Once Upon A Time, Knows

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Next, Surprise

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• Think back over your day and consider when God spoke. How did you sense it, or why did you fail to sense it at the time? It is often between the lines and in the empty places where we hear God.

  Lonni Collins Pratt

  Spiritual, Godly, Thinking

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• Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Book, Reading, Important

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• It's a bold statement but I think people need to read between the lines.

  Rakim

  Thinking, People, Needs

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.

  May Sarton

  Silence, Read Between The Lines, Ifs

  May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1993”, p.571, Open Road Media

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• For me, listening to my breath in between the lines, allows me to be in deep connection to my spirit.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Listening, Connections, Lines

  "Exclusive: Giancarlo Esposito Talks Current Projects, More; Directing Series On Slave Abolitionist John Brown". Interview by Masha Dowell, www.indiewire.com. October 9, 2012.

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• Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the big ones; that we had to rewrite the whole thing in shorthand, smashing it into two dimensions, just to talk about it. Or don’t imagine it. Look outside. Human language is our attempt at navigating God’s language; it is us running between the lines of His epic, climbing on the vowels and building houses out of the consonants.

  N.D. Wilson

  Running, Epic, Climbing

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• Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

  Margaret Millar

  Reading, Acceptance, People

  Margaret Millar (2015). “An Air That Kills”, p.163, Soho Press

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• I start to think, and then I sink
  Into the paper like I was ink
  When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines
  I escape when I finish the rhyme.

  Rakim

  Rap, Writing, Thinking

  Song: I Know You Got Soul

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• Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea.... We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Country, Light, Sea

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.2088, Delphi Classics

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• When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Together, Looks, Syntax

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• an Autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth, the remorseless truth is there, between the lines, where the author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell... the result being that the reader knows the author in spite of his wily diligences.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Cat, Dust

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.55, Chartwell

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• The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an intereffect between the lines in a painting: one line attracts the other and at the point of maximum attraction the lines curve in toward the attracting point and form is altered.

  Pablo Picasso

  Curves, People, Secret

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• We like books that have a lot of dreck in them, matter which presents itself as not wholly relevant (or indeed, at all relevant) but which, carefully attended to, can supply a kind of "sense" of what is going on. This "sense" is not to be obtained by reading between the lines (for there is nothing there, in those white spaces) but by reading the lines themselves looking at them and so arriving at a feeling not of satisfaction exactly, that is too much to expect, but of having read them, of having "completed" them.

  Donald Barthelme

  Book, Reading, White

  1967 Snow White.

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• The whole notion of politics is they always present you with this or this or this. I’ll get a newspaper to read between the lines. Why do you have to adhere to prescribed formulas that they have and people argue over them and they’re all in a box. And you watch Fox claw CNN, and CNN claw Fox. Sometimes I catch a piece of the news and it seems insanity to me. I quietly support candidates. I’m not out there banging a drum for candidates. But I have supported a candidate and it’s a whole other world.

  Mel Gibson

  Other Worlds, Cnn, People

  "Exclusive: Mel Gibson Finally Talks". Interview with Allison Hope Weiner, deadline.com. September 20, 2012.

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• Few stories are written about what happens to the princess after the wedding. Reading between the lines of other stories, we can sketch out her "happily ever after": The princess gets pregnant and hopes for sons. As long as she is faithful and bears sons, she is considered to be a good wife. We don't hear whether or not she's a good mother, unless something goes wrong with her children.... All of history has been written about the subsequent adventures in the chapters of his life.

  Elizabeth Debold

  Mother, Children, Women

  Elizabeth Debold, Marie C. Wilson, Idelisse Malavé (1993). “Mother daughter revolution: from betrayal to power”, Da Capo Press

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• Inside the book between the lines, was a place to rest and absorb the magic

  Sark

  Book, Magic, Lines

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