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“This is tremendous. The labels have been saying all along that they can't compete with free, but there is a way to compete with free: high value content that's virus- free and gives people the chance to be first in line to buy expensive concert tickets. This is like loyalty clubs at the supermarkets.”

People Way Giving Firsts Has Beens Values Lines Chance Clubs Loyalty Labels Expensive Concerts Tickets Viruses Supermarkets

Author:Jonathan Potter

“Especially in quail hunting, where the hunter is so focused on the bird that it makes everything else blurry. The bottom line in terms of bird hunting is what we call shooting zones.”

Term Lines Bird Bottom Focused Shooting Zone Hunting Hunters Bottom Line Blurry Quails

Author:Steven Hall

“At the dinner table when I was very little, I would hear people bickering... To escape the bickering, I started modelling the soft bread with my fingers. With the dough of the French bread %u2013 sometimes it was still warm %u2013 I would make little figures. And I would line them up on the table and this was really my first sculpture.”

People Firsts Littles Stills Sometimes Lines Figures Tables Fingers Warm Dinner Bread Sculpture Bourgeois Dinner Table Dough Modelling Bickering French Bread

Author:Louise Bourgeois

“I didn't hit one three-pointer in college, and a couple of those were right on the college three line. I didn't feel comfortable much outside of 12 to 15 feet. Now, I really feel comfortable from the wing and the corner area out to 18, 19 feet. I'm going to keep working and continue to improve it.”

Feels Three Lines Feet College Couple Comfort Comfortable Areas Wings Corners Pointers

Author:David Lee

“The acquisition of True Temper broadens our lawn and garden product line with outstanding, highly respected brands, ... The purchase also expands USI Hardware and Tool's customer base and provides additional capacity for future growth.”

Growth Lines Products Capacity Garden Tools Customers Brands Temper Outstanding Acquisition Lawns Temperance Hardware Future Growth

Author:David A. Clarke, Jr

“By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition.”

Bigs Seems Imagination Lines Edges Wander Going Out Composition Canvas

Book:Charles Webster Hawthorne

Source: Charles Webster Hawthorne

“It is said that my art has some typically Nordic features: the curving lines, the convolutions, the magical masks and staring eyes that appear in myths and folk art. This may be. My interest in the dynamics of Jugend style probably also comes into it.”

May Art Said Eye Interest Lines Style Folks Myth Staring Features Mask Dynamics Nordic Folk Art

Book:Asger Jorn

Source: Asger Jorn

“I don't do chat-up lines. Girls often tell me I'm cheeky. Being cheeky seems to work OK for me.”

Seems Girl Lines Cheeky

Author:Jermain Defoe

“When you cross the line, it is such a wonderful feeling it's hard to describe.”

Hard Feelings Lines Wonderful Crosses

Author:Kelly Holmes

“The bottom line is, as the season goes on, everybody becomes more comfortable. For a quarterback, it's more than just him. It's everybody else doing things. Offense is all about how things work as a unit. It's everybody being comfortable.”

Lines Goes On Comfort Comfortable Seasons Bottom Offense Units Bottom Line Quarterback

Author:Kirk Ferentz

“There's an unexpectedly high share of workers still in agriculture, .. That's like a fault line.”

Stills Lines Share Faults Workers Agriculture

Author:Edward Taylor

“A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense.”

May Lines Taken Painting Landscape Make Sense Composition Ignored Landscape Painting

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“A beautiful feature in the colour wood-cut, and one unique in printing, is colour gradation... Two brushes are sometimes used, one charged with more potent colour than the other. Line blocks are nearly always printed with some variation of tone, and often in colour too.”

Two Sometimes Beautiful Used Lines Cutting Unique Woods Block Features Tone Colour Brushes Variation Printed Printing

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“A horizontal or vertical line lacks energy, compared with one that deviates from either. The difference between these graphic expressions is the difference between movement and repose.”

Energy Differences Lines Movement Expression Graphic Repose Vertical Horizontal Deviate

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Aerial perspective has nothing to do with line, but concerns tones and colours, by the delicate manipulation of which an artist can suggest infinite distance.”

Artist Lines Perspective Concern Infinite Distance Tone Colour Manipulation Delicate

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Etching will suggest subtle variations of tone, the most delicate shadings, all with black lines, which, as far as lines go, are unsurpassed for sheer beauty.”

Black Lines Tone Subtle Delicate Sheer Variation Etching

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“I love all those stupid, cheesy chat-up lines like 'Did God take the stars out of the sky and put them into your eyes?' But I never get chatted up.”

Eye Stars Lines Sky Stupid Cheesy

Author:Jamelia

“I use as sensitive a line as possible when I draw on the plate.”

Use Lines Draws Sensitive Plates

Author:Jay Moore

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

Art Book Reading Lines Information Communication Books And Reading Between The Lines Read Between The Lines

Author:Serge Schmemann

“I've been collecting since college, .. When we're children, we're taught to draw in the lines, use certain colors. In this art, the talent and the creativity we had as children hasn't been squashed. The early stuff is still there.”

Children Art Stills Use Certain Stuff Lines Creativity Talent Taught College Color Draws Collecting

Author:Beverly L. Kaye

“There's a fine line between heartbreak and love. It's a compliment when someone tells me my music put them in a place when where they were almost in tears.”

Lines Tears Fine And Love Compliment Fine Lines

Author:Chris Botti

“It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony and rhythm, these basic forms of beauty, supplemented if necessary by other direct lines or curves, can become a work of art, as strong as it is true.”

Ifs Art Form Strong Lines Awareness Direct Harmony Intuition Rhythm Works Of Art Curves Calculations Vertical Horizontal Horizontal Lines

Author:Piet Mondrian

“I am really excited about Battle of the Stars, the line-up looks fantastic. I've no doubt that despite their fame my hand holding will still be in high demand as they take on the judges often harsh words. Lets just hope I'm not having to mop up too many tears!”

Looks Stills Hands Stars Lines Doubt Tears Judging Battle Fame Demand Excited Despite Fantastic No Doubt Harsh Hand Holding Harsh Words

Author:Kate Thornton

“There are subtle things you can do without crossing the line. If I see I've got up my opponent's nose, I will be over the moon. Job done.”

Ifs Done Jobs Can Do Lines Moon Noses Opponents Subtle Crossings Crossing The Line

Author:Ian Poulter

“My favorite single line from the Quran is from Surah 49:13, which says that God made us different nations and tribes that we may come to know one another, in the sense that diversity is holy and it was created by God. What we humans are meant to do with that diversity is engage in positive interaction with each other and come to know one another because knowledge is holy and pluralism or positive engagement is holy.”

Knows Humans May Made Different Nations Lines Communication Holy Diversity My Favorite Engagement Interaction Tribes Pluralism Single Line

Author:Eboo Patel

“That torture is wrong can never be the conclusion to any line of reasoning because it has to be a fundamental premise. Witnessing to the humanity of the other is the place where all moral reasoning must begin.”

Humanity Lines Moral Fundamentals Conclusion Torture Reasoning Premises Moral Reasoning

Author:Giles Fraser

“Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's just the opposite. I must account for every line, shape and colour and I am forced to give an explanation of the inexplicable and account for the variety of styles the students present.”

Giving Two Artist Lines Teacher Teaching Style Students Shapes Opposites Accounts Paint Variety Explanation Colour Unexpected Being An Artist Inexplicable Being A Teacher

Author:Pierre Alechinsky

“Drawing is still the bottom line.”

Stills Lines Bottom Drawing Bottom Line

Book:The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn

Source: The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn

“I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.”

Looks Stills I Can Age Lines Improvement Old Age Tone Colour Composition One Line

Author:E. J. Hughes

“Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines.”

Lines Watches Draws Drawing Shoulders Meaningless Pencils

Author:E. J. Hughes

“The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.”

Heart Real Actors Lines Acting Direct Collectives

Author:Sam Rayburn

“There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going.”

Running Remember Next Water Lines Wonder Wind Drink Keep Going Marathon Bad Day Inspirational Running Finish Line

Author:Steve Jobs

“An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons.”

War Reason Care Lines Majors Army Operations Abandoned One Line

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still, In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot, I do not dare to draw a line Between the two, where God has not.”

Men Stills Two Lines Sin Divine Goodness Draws Ill Dare Life And Love

Book:Life Amongst the Modocs: Unwritten History

Source: Life Amongst the Modocs: Unwritten History

“In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard.”

World Hard Fall Lines Plans Heard Fields Football Safe Inspirational Football Football Field

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Europe has been at peace since 1945. But it is a restless peace thats shadowed by the threat of violence. Europe is partitioned. An unnatural line runs through the heart of a very great and a very proud nation [Germany]. History warns us that until this harsh division has been resolved, peace in Europe will never be secure. We must turn to one of the great unfinished tasks of our generationand that unfinished task is making Europe whole again.”

Heart Has Beens Whole Running Turns Nations Peace Lines Violence Proud Europe Tasks Threat Secure Germany Division Harsh Restless Unnatural Unfinished

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.”

Men Said War Government Certain Nations Peace Lines Powerful Leader Generations Ideals Essence Democrat Gifted Very Powerful Absolutely Nothing Aristocracy Plutocracy

Book:The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914

Source: The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914

“If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.”

Ifs Politics Lines Walks Rooms Politician

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.”

Felt Lines Ten Nonsense Twelve Reciting

Author:Errol Flynn

“To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard.”

Men Believe Hard Play President Lines Player Fields Football Fairs Simile Football Field

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.”

Lines Racism Equality Divides Creeds Sections Castes

Book:The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt

Source: The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt

“It's the principle of it, I get a rush when I bust Some dope lines oral, that maybe somebody'll quote. That's what I consider real in this field of music, Instead of puttin' brain cells to work, they abuse it. Non-conceptual, non-exceptional, Everybody's either crime-related or sexual. For those who pose lyrical, but really ain't true, I feel: Their time's limited, hard rocks too.”

Feels Real Hard Lines Brain Principles Rocks Crime Fields Abuse Hip Hop Rap Cells Related Exceptional Dope Lyrical Hard Rock Brain Cells

Author:O.C.

“The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.”

Want Needs Humans Dream Lines Deals Economy Products Advertising Agency Assembly Human Needs Advertising Agencies Assembly Line

Author:Leo Burnett

“Whether I caught fish or not, just the thrill of rolling out that line and watching my fly turn over has been good enough for me. That and the hundreds of treasured memories I have of this wonderful sport.”

Has Beens Enough Turns Sports Lines Memories Wonderful Sea Rivers Caught Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Good Enough Rolling Thrill Treasured

Author:Curt Gowdy

“Maybe I could have loved you better. Maybe you should have loved me more. Maybe our hearts were just next in line. Maybe everything breaks sometime.”

Love Should Heart Next Lines Break Should Have Time Love Sad Love

Author:Jewel

“Dreams last so long Even after you're gone I know you love me And soon you will see You were meant for me And I was meant for you Go about my business, I'm doing fine Besides, what would I say if I had you on the line Same old story, not much to say Hearts are broken every day I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead I try to tell myself it'll be all right I just shouldn't think anymore tonight”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Trying Heart Long Stories Dream Lasts Song Lines Half Gone Alive Broken Fine Tonight I Know You Love Me

Author:Jewel

“Don't foul, don't flinch-hit the line hard.”

Hard Lines Courage Perseverance Foul

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“Being tame is what we're taught: ... put the crayons back, stay in line, don't talk too loud, keep your knees together, nice girls don't... As you might know, nice girls DO, and they like to feel wild and alive. Being tame feels safe, being wild, unsafe. Yet safety is an illusion anyway. We are not in control. No matter how dry and tame and nice we live, we will die. And we will suffer along the way. Living wild is its own reward.”

Knows Way Feels Matter Might Together Suffering Dies Girl Lines Nice Alive Taught Safe Illusion Safety Rewards Loud Knees Dry Unsafe Crayon Nice Girl

Author:Sark

“Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.”

People Lines Products Strategy Bottom Manage Bottom Line

Author:Steve Jobs

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