Throughline Quotes & Sayings

If you want to be an artist, go to every art gallery, if you want to be in movies, see movies! You have to participate in whichever world you're trying to enter! You have to know what's going on. You can be the best artist in the world but if you don't know one thing about which gallery to go to, you're never going to get it shown in the right place. Learn a little bit about the business of whichever art you're trying to get into. Without it, you will be lost. — John Waters

I wanted to get more serialized. I had this idea for an event that would click onto everybody's mortality. I said, "I want somebody to die." Fortunately for me, when I was toying with that idea, John Landgraf, who's the head of FX but also a very smart executive, came up with the idea of the ashes in the maracas. He called me up and said, "Listen, what about this, they get the ashes in a box and when they get them, they shake them and they sound like maracas." And I was like, "Okay, now I've got my throughline." — Denis Leary

His dark eyes took me in, and I wondered what they would look like if he fell in love. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I exist, I think, I feel pain. Is all this as certain as a geometric truth? Yes. Why? It is because these truths are proved by the same principle that a thing cannot be and not be at the same thime. I cannot at the same time exist and not exist, feel and not feel. A triangle cannot at the same time have and not have 180 degrees, which is the sum of two right angles. — Voltaire

Just as you commit to this life when it commits to leaving you. — Akiane Kramarik

I've liked women but I've never felt I wanted to give up my life completely. I've never wanted to go to bed with anybody. — Keith O'Brien

Some of the pain released, and love filled the cleared space, uniting, magnetizing more self-love to it. — Colleen Chen

The comics I've talked to have varied styles as stand-ups, but the throughline is that it's the most intense thing they've ever done. — Scott Raab

Scene study is isolated. I suppose it's interesting, but I don't think it really teaches you about a throughline. A throughline is something you feel when you do one scene followed by another followed by another. — Glenne Headly