Lines Quotes

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By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was… — Edvard Munch
In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color — Edvard Munch
As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a… — Gianfranco Ferre
All humanity inspires me. Every passer-by is my unconscious sitter; and as strange as it may seem, I really draw folk as I see them.… — Aubrey Beardsley
It's very, very hard to speak truth to power when the truth is unpleasant. I think it's one of the toughest things especially a young… — David Gergen
As we discern a fine line between crank and genius, so also (and unfortunately) we must acknowledge an equally graded trajectory from crank to demagogue.… — Stephen Jay Gould
I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme positions… — Stephen Jay Gould
Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or wealth. — Vita Sackville-West
The church has been preoccupied with the question, 'What happens to your soul after you die?' AS IF THE REASON FOR JESUS COMING CAN BE… — Brian D. McLaren
Reality is made up of circles but we see straight lines. — Peter Senge
A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get… — Tom Peters
It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be… — Oswald Spengler
Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live: the… — Anne Michaels
I don't know whether it was his (Charlie Christian's) melodic lines, his sound or his approach, but I hadn't heard anything like that before. He… — Wes Montgomery
The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice. — Bill Walsh
Okay everybody, line up in alphabetical order according to your height. — Casey Stengel
Just why is Yosemite climbing so different ? Why does it have techniques, ethics and equipment all of its own ? The basic reason lies… — Yvon Chouinard
Of the offspring of the gentilman Jafeth, came Habraham, Moyses, Aron and the profettys; and also the kyng of the right line of Mary, of… — Unknown Author
When you are in the line of your duty, it is like standing in front of a line of posts, and every post is in… — Heber J. Grant
When I decided to launch my first knitwear line, it was because I saw a void in the basics category. The editors were always looking… — Alexander Wang
The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines. — Camille Paglia
My point is that it's incorrect to say that the Iraq policy isn't working. It is working. It is doing what they want. They have… — Michael Parenti
Every issue of the paper presents an opportunity and a duty to say something courageous and true; to rise above the mediocre and conventional; to… — Joseph Pulitzer
My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread — Rafael Palmeiro
It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it… — Edgar Degas

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