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“I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science it is by this daily striving after knowledge that man has raised himself to the unique position he occupies on earth, and that his power and well-being have continually increased.”

Men Wells Earth Science Belief Lines Knowledge Position Expression Unique Importance Raised Strive Well Being Importance Of Science

Author:Marie Curie

“If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action. Instead of becoming sidetracked by distractions and diversions, your time is focused on a straight line from start to finish.”

Ifs Action Courses Goal Lines Clear Focus Plans Achieve Becoming Focused Planning Fixed Distraction Straight Lines Diversion Clear Goals

Author:Brian Tracy

“Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can both repose and energy be seen in a painting's line and color, plane and volume, surface and depth, detail and composition? - and is the true effect of a good painting on the spectator one that makes at once for repose and energy, calmness and intensity, serenity and stir?”

Mind Together Artist Energy Lines Effects Color Painting Depth Details Surface Arise Planes Intensity Serenity Volume Composition Spectators Calmness Repose Being Together

Author:Eli Siegel

“You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.”

Ends Lines Audience Jokes Curves Straight Lines

Author:Abe Burrows

“Until I saw my drawings replayed on the iPad, I'd never seen myself draw. Someone watching me would be concentrating on the exact moment, but I'd always be thinking a little bit ahead. That's especially so in a drawing where you are limiting yourself, a line drawing for example. When you are doing them you are very tense, because you have to reduce everything to such simple terms.”

Thinking Littles Moments Would Be Bits Term Lines Simple Saws Example Little Bit Draws Drawing Where You Are Tense Concentrating Ipads Limiting Yourself

Author:David Hockney

“Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about... I understand what he was doing: discovering what's there... to make the line meaningful, to find a linear solution.”

Lines Tears Solutions Drawing Meaningful Lovely Discovering Linear Charcoal Matisse

Author:David Hockney

“I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more.”

Ifs Persons I Can Lines Silence Drawing Noise

Book:David Hockney

Source: David Hockney

“Definition of inertia: 'The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in it lies, endeavours to preserve its present state, whether it be of rest or of moving uniformly forward in a straight line.”

Matter States Body Moving Lying Force Lines Definitions Preserves Innate Resisting Endeavour Straight Lines Inertia Indolence

Author:Isaac Newton

“It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't.”

Giving Writing Firsts Inspiration Lines Sticks Riding Bulls

Author:Bob Dylan

“I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here.”

House Left Lines Four Magic Internet Areas Bay Area Food Banks

Author:Andy Hertzfeld

“It doesn't matter what the income level of your family is, or if English is the first or second language. It makes no difference. The bottom line is that every child can be an academic champion, an academic champion and a superstar in academics.”

Ifs Firsts Children Matter Language Differences Lines Levels Bottom Income Our Family Champion Academic Bottom Line Superstar

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Concentrate on a single feature - as, build all toward one eye - make all lines lead toward that eye.”

Eye Lines Features Concentration

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“There's a quote from Hamlet that is my guide... He tells the players not to exaggerate but to hold a mirror up to nature. Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.”

Lines Player Mirrors Guides

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“Do we not find freedom along the guiding lines of discipline?”

Lines Discipline

Author:Yehudi Menuhin

“A well-judging man will open his trunk-line of study in such a direction that, while habitually adhering to it, he may enjoy a ready access to such other fields of knowledge as are most nearly related to it.”

Men Wells May Enjoy Lines Study Fields Ready Judging Research Access Related Trunks

Author:James Fitzjames Stephen

“Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity, bringing forward those parts of an object which are always most distant from the eye - namely its outlines.”

Eye Lines Objects Perspective Proportion Centre Outlines Plasticity

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure.”

Thinking Wells Success Lines Success And Failure Dividing Success Failure

Author:Richard Branson

“To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.”

Art Beautiful Lines Art Is Painter Landscape Department Select Admirable

Author:J. M. W. Turner

“But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.”

I Can Eye Nature Lines Mass Details Backgrounds Planes Relief Obscure Luminous

Author:Francisco Goya

“Straight lines vary only in length, and therefore are least ornamental.”

Lines Length Vary Straight Lines

Book:Aestheticism in Art

Source: Aestheticism in Art

“The serpentine line, or the line of grace, by its waving and winding at the same time different ways, leads the eye in a pleasing manner along the continuity of its variety.”

Way Different Eye Lines Grace Variety Different Ways Continuity

Book:Anecdotes of Mr. Hogarth: And Explanatory Descriptions of the Plates of Hogarth Restored

Source: Anecdotes of Mr. Hogarth: And Explanatory Descriptions of the Plates of Hogarth Restored

“Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong. Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.”

Littles Difficult Lines Impossible Invention Retreat Wretched Little Time

Author:Fridtjof Nansen

“If I actually ran the world, I'd do it from the kitchen. It's not anything deliberate or a statement or anything, that's just how I understand things. It's arranged along informal lines.”

Ifs World Lines Statements Ran Kitchen Deliberate

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without viable offspring, but not a single one of your ancestors, going back to the dawn of life on Earth, suffered that normal misfortune. You spring from an unbroken line of winners.”

Life Earth Lines Alive Perspective Lucky Normal Spring Percent Died Winner Dawn Misfortunes Cosmic Ancestor Organisms Living Things Offspring Unbroken

Author:Daniel Dennett

“I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly nuanced shades of gray.”

Form Lines Color Pure Opposition Gray Shade Plastic Organize Curves Patches Straight Lines Shades Of Gray

Author:Fernand Leger

“Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist.”

Ideas Can Do Lines Fine Description Cartoonist Versatile

Author:Stan Smith

“A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon being opened, the marvels or the abysses that it contains, or the line that seems to have been written for me alone. In this respect the writer is not different from any other human being: whatever we say or do can have far-reaching consequences.”

“Compare constantly, lines and angles... Hold looking-glass before your model and your drawing. Take a second's glance only, and see if the impression be the same. If it be not, ask, 'What is the difference?”

Ifs Asks Differences Lines Models Glasses Drawing Impression Compare Angle Glances

Book:William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing

Source: William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing

“There is this great idea about the logic of a politician, along the lines of: "Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.”

Ideas Done Lines Politician Logic Great Idea

Author:Antony Jay

“Jesus' power is the power of human wholeness that ultimately opens, invites and enables human beings to step beyond defense lines where incomplete humanity always hides in order to experience full humanity.”

Humans Humanity Order Jesus Lines Human Beings Steps Defense Invites Wholeness Incomplete

Author:John Shelby Spong

“Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.”

Thinking Sometimes Lines Fine Messy Fine Lines

Author:Lady Gaga

“Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend they'll last forever.”

Lasts Easy Lines Forever Painting Paper Drawing Bags Plastic Cheaper Plastic Bags

Author:Marlene Dumas

“The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.”

Way Universe Lines Perfect Conditions Pins Traffic Light Quitting Your Job 4 Hour Work Week

Author:Tim Ferriss

“Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.”

Lines Pleasure Player Risk Trump Instinct Drawing Cards Instruction Seeming Uneasy Bending Perversity

Author:Adam Gopnik

“This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.”

Sometimes Lines Music Virtue Ocean Calm Intense Contemplation Ecstasy Serenity Severe Verge Monotonous Asceticism Sensuous Horizontal

Author:Charles Gounod

“Such compositions, line and color ideas, such wonders come into my mind and have stuck! - They will this time be dismissed only by being painted out.”

Mind Ideas Lines Wonder Color Stuck Composition

Author:Morris Graves

“What intrigues us as a problem, and what will satisfy us as a solution, will depend upon the line we draw between what is already clear and what needs to be clarified.”

Needs Problem Lines Clear Depends Solutions Draws Intrigue

Book:Fact, Fiction, and Forecast

Source: Fact, Fiction, and Forecast

“What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually a recurrence of a line of thinking explored in the past.”

People Thinking Firsts Ideas Past Lines Approach First Time New Ideas Recurrence

Author:Robert Hass

“You have the sky overhead giving one light; then the reflected light from whatever reflects; then the direct light of the sun; so that, in the blending and suffusing of these several luminations, there is no such thing as a line to be seen anywhere.”

Giving Light Lines Sun Sky Direct Overhead

Book:Winslow Homer

Source: Winslow Homer

“I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely, but I now recognize that I did not fully accomplish this goal and that certain of my responses to questions about Ms. Lewinsky were false.”

Certain Goal Lines Walks Acting Response Accomplish Testifying

Author:Monica Lewinsky

“In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of these systems were finite; that is, they were complete using all possible variations. This kept them simple.”

Form Used Lines Simple Cases Produce Color Elements Logical Squares Finite Variation Methodology Cubes

Author:Sol LeWitt

“The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets this down in color and line as simply and as powerfully as possible and so translates his impression into an aesthetic emotion.”

Knows Trying Lines Emotion Color Scene Impression Painter Aesthetic Translate Simplify

Author:David Milne

“Reservations and cloth napkins are really minor pinnacles in the high sierra of the New York lunch. The zenith, the Mount Whitney of lunches, the noon meal at which all local lines of force converge [is] the Bar Room of the Four Seasons.”

Force Lines Rooms Four New York Seasons Bars Locals Meals Lunch Minors Noon Reservations Pinnacle Sierra Napkins Whitney Zenith Four Seasons

Author:Raymond Sokolov

“Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you.”

Sometimes Heaven Lines Written One Line

Author:David Whyte

“Who doesn't know the easy, breezy, beautiful Covergirl line? I'm so excited to be the face of the brand in Australia and help all girls find and rock their inner Covergirl!”

Knows Helping Beautiful Faces Girl Easy Lines Rocks Excited Brands Australia Breezy

Author:Ricki-Lee Coulter

“I think every single point will be important, .. I think more than anything, I'll just have to be able to compete better. When you're playing Serena Williams, you have to compete better than her. I got a lot of tricks from Serena just watching her. She inspired me so many times. I also got motivated by her in the early part of my career, and even now. I just have to compete better, bottom line.”

Thinking Important Able Lines Careers Inspired Bottom Tricks Motivated Bottom Line

Author:Venus Williams

“We thank those Senators, both Republican and Democrat, who stood firm against tremendous pressure from the Bush administration, pro-drilling members of Congress and their allies in the oil industry. They recognize that the budget is an inappropriate place to decide controversial national policy matters like America's energy policy. We urge all members of Congress to remain steadfast in their belief that the vast, unspoiled wilderness of America?s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is more than a line item in the Federal Budget.”

“Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More they proceed the more they still disjoin.”

Firsts Stills Running Lines Streams Decline Parallels Quarrels Scarce Dissension

Book:The Poems of Garth, and Tickell

Source: The Poems of Garth, and Tickell

“There is the finest line between data and evidence.”

Lines Ability Evidence Data Finest

Author:Randall Dale Adams

“To line only for some unknown future is superficial.”

Lines Future Superficial Unknown Future

Author:Abdul Kalam

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