Quotes by Lines Writing is a business and should be practiced as such. On days when you think you can’t possibly write a line you do it anyhow. Henry Denker lineswritingthinking Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume. Henri Matisse one-linelinesdoe Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle. Henry Fuseli linescolorprinciples Shakespeare said it best,' Tamaru said quietly as he gazed at that lumpish, misshapen head. 'Something along these lines: if we die today, we do not have to die tomorrow, so let us look to the best in each other Haruki Murakami linestodaylooks The present is an infinitesimal between two infinites. 'Tis a line (a thing without breadth or thickness) moving across the surface of Eternity. The present is no more, by the time you have said, 'This is present.' Henry Harland linestwomoving I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers. Henry Paulson taxpayerslinesbrother The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched. Henry Louis Gates african-americanlinestree Professor Brown: 'Since this slide was made,' he opined, 'My students have re-examined the errant points and I am happy to report that all fall close to the [straight] line.' Questioner: 'Professor Brown, I am delighted that the points which fell off the line proved, on reinvestigation, to be in compliance. I wonder, however, if you have had your students reinvestigate all these points that previously fell on the line to find out how many no longer do so?' Herbert C. Brown linessciencefall A person who is psychic is following a line of probability to see a probable future; but it can change. Another causal fact will interfere and that future won't happen. Frederick Lenz psychicslinesfacts Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight lines. Herbert Spencer linesdoetwo Nature creates curved lines while humans create straight lines. Hideki Yukawa linesnaturescience The word 'however' is like an imp coiled beneath your chair. It induces ink to form words you have not yet seen, and lines to march across the page and overshoot the margin. There are no endings. If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings. Here is one. Hilary Mantel linespagesthinking I have made a silent compact with myself not to change a line of what I write. I am not interested in perfecting my thoughts, nor my actions. Henry Miller linesactionwriting If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back. Henry Rollins mosquitoeslinesthinking Her voice was like a line from an old black-and-white Jean-Luc Godard movie, filtering in just beyond the frame of my consciousness. Haruki Murakami black-and-whitelinesvoice The workingmen have been exploited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody. Henry Ford employerslinesway It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time. Henry Rollins linestryingpeople I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line. Hilary Mantel linespartycareers But actually time isn't a straight line. It doesn't ave a shape. In all senses of the term, it doesn't have any form. But since we can't picture something without form in our minds, for the sake of convenience we understand it as a straight line. At this point, humans are the only ones who can make that sort of conceptual substitution. Haruki Murakami linesshapesmind I put my pencil upon the paper, doubtfully, and drew little lines, considering my theme. But I would not long hesitate in this manner, for I knew that all creation must be chaos first, and then gestures in the void before it can cast out the completed thing. Hilaire Belloc linespaperlong«4243444546474849505152»
