“Clothes, when abstracted from the flow of present time and their transmogrifying function on the human body, and seen as forms in themselves, are strange tubes and excrescences worthy of being classed with such facial decorations as the ring through the nose or the lip-stretching disk. But how enchanting they become when seen togetherwith the qualities they bestow on their wearer! What happens then is no less than the infusion, into some tangled lines on a piece of paper, of the meaning of a great word.” HumansBodyHappensFormLinesQualityPiecesStrangePaperClothesFlowFunctionLipsWorthyRingsNosesHuman BodyStretchingTubesDecorationTangledPresent TimeFacialEnchantingDiskInfusion Author:Robert Musil
“The House of Representatives was not designed to sit idly by and rubberstamp every piece of legislation sent their way by the Senate, especially legislation passed on a straight party line vote under the spurious policy of reconciliation.” WayHouseLinesPartyPiecesPolicyVoteSenateRepresentativesLegislationReconciliationHouse Of Representatives Author:Neal Boortz
“Freud believed that our dreams sometimes recapitulate a speech, a comment we've heard or something that we've read. I always had compositions in my dreams. They would be a joke, a piece of a novel, a witticism or a piece of dialogue from a play, and I would dream them. I would actually express them line by line in the dream. Sometimes after waking up I would remember a snatch or two and write them down. There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue.” WantWritingTwoSometimesPlayDreamWould BeRememberLinesNovelPiecesHeardSpeechJokesWake UpDialogueCommentWakingCompositionOur Dreams Author:David Mamet
“As I write, Johnny Rotten's first moments in "Anarchy in the U.K." - a rolling earthquake of a laugh, a buried shout, then hoary words somehow stripped of all claptrap and set down in the city streets - I AM AN ANTICHRIST - Remain as powerful as anything I know. Listening to the record today - listening to the way Johnny Rotten tears at his lines, and then hurls the pieces at the world; recalling the all-consuming smile he produced as he sang - my back stiffens; I pull away even as my scalp begins to sweat.” KnowsWorldWayWritingFirstsMomentsTodayLinesPowerfulCitiesLaughingRecordsPiecesStreetsTearsListeningBuriedAnarchySweatRollingRottenConsumingEarthquakesAntichristCity StreetsJohnny Rotten Author:Greil Marcus
“When people listen to my music, I hope that they will notice that if you take a piece by a composer like Schubert, the major and the minor triad is an extermely important thing not merely as harmony, but in creating melodic lines. Schubert is always walking up and down with arpeggios on C, E, G and so forth. I am not doing anything different really, except using a different system of harmony.” PeopleIfsImportantDifferentLinesPiecesWalkingCreatingMajorsHarmonyImportant ThingsComposerMinorsUp And DownSchubertTriads Author:Elliott Carter
“Would you render the same level of support to someone who hadn't conscientiously objected, but rather instead rolled a grenade under their line officer in order to neutralize the combat capacity of their unit? Conscientious objection removes a given piece of the cannon fodder from the fray; fragging an officer has a much more impactful effect.” OrderGivenLinesLevelsSupportPiecesEffectsCapacityRemoveCombatOfficersUnitsObjectionsCannonsFrayGrenadeFodder Author:Ward Churchill
“...and he crosses the line with the ball almost mesmerically tied to his foot with a piece of string.” LinesPiecesFeetFootballCrossesBallsStringsTiedCommentators Author:Ian Darke
“In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature.” WorldFactsCultureLinesPiecesWesternBoxesDecadesDrawingInterconnectedWestern CultureDrawing The Line Author:Margaret J. Wheatley
“Bicycles are pieces of art. You get that combination of kinetic engineering, but then, besides the welds, the paint jobs, the kind of the sculpture of it all is quite beautiful. Bikes have such great lines, and all different styles.” KindArtDifferentJobsBeautifulLinesPiecesStylePaintCombinationEngineeringBikeSculptureBicycleDifferent Styles Author:Robin Williams
“I wrote a piece from North Korea called Visit to a Small Planet which is a line I stole from a play of Gore Vidal's, because it did seem to me as if I had left this planet completely to go on this visit to the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, and it was as if coming back from another spatial body altogether.” IfsPlayBodySeemsLeftLinesPiecesPlanetsGoes OnComing BackKoreaNorth KoreaGoreKoreanSpatialPeninsulas Author:Christopher Hitchens
“The whole notion of politics is they always present you with this or this or this. I’ll get a newspaper to read between the lines. Why do you have to adhere to prescribed formulas that they have and people argue over them and they’re all in a box. And you watch Fox claw CNN, and CNN claw Fox. Sometimes I catch a piece of the news and it seems insanity to me. I quietly support candidates. I’m not out there banging a drum for candidates. But I have supported a candidate and it’s a whole other world.” PeopleWorldSometimesWholeSeemsLinesWatchesSupportPiecesNewsNotionBoxesArguingNewspapersInsanityCandidatesFormulasFoxesOther WorldsClawsCnnBangingBetween The LinesRead Between The Lines Author:Mel Gibson
“The concept of having staple pieces with clean, basic lines, and adding accessories to funk it all up is one that applies to both fashion and decorating. There are so many parallels.” LinesPiecesFashionConceptsCleanParallelsAccessoriesFunkStaplesDecorating Author:Jeremiah Brent
“I drew pictures rapidly and with few lines, because I had to write most of the pieces, too, and couldn't monkey long with the drawings. The divine urge was no higher than that.” WritingLongLinesPiecesDivineHigherDrawingUrgesMonkeys Book:The Thurber letters: the wit, wisdom, and surprising life of James Thurber Source: The Thurber letters: the wit, wisdom, and surprising life of James Thurber
“I always like to borrow bits and pieces of things. There's a line between jumping on something that's happening and incorporating bits and pieces of it into my work.” BitsLinesPiecesHappeningsJumpingBits And PiecesIncorporating Author:Girl Talk
“I've been designing my own pieces for a long time. My mother's a jewelry designer, so we knew at some point we were going to do a line and dive into the fashion world.” WorldLongMotherLinesMy OwnPiecesFashionDesignLong TimeDesignerJewelryFashion World Author:Christian Serratos
“I'll generally write out every scene that's in the film on a couple of pieces of paper, just with a little one-line. And then I can scan it a bit and go, 'This first third of the film, generally, I'm kind of calm.' Then I might do something on one piece of paper that just relates to the energy of the character.” WritingFirstsKindLittlesI CanCharacterMightFilmEnergyBitsLinesPiecesCoupleScenePaperThirdsCalmRelateOne PieceOne Line Author:Guy Pearce
“Shakespeare has way too many lines. My ideal theatre piece is about 40 minutes long with no interval.” WayLongLinesPiecesMinutesIdealsTheatreIntervals Author:Daniel Craig
“Sometimes with these things all the pieces fall into place. I mean, we've been talking about this for years and we don't have the script now, but sometimes things fall into place very quickly, and if everything lines up it could happen.” IfsYearsMeanSometimesHappensFallLinesTalkingPiecesScriptsFall Into PlaceThings Fall Into Place Author:Joseph Kosinski
“I'm useless at staring at a piece of white paper. But if you put a piece of white paper with a black line on it in front of me, I'll say no that black line should be red and it should go this way or that way.” IfsWayShouldBlackLinesWhitePiecesFrontsPaperRedUselessStaringWhite Paper Author:Marc Jacobs
“Well, there's lots of different things going on at the moment, I'm in talks with some people from Japan to do something and I'm also talking to Hugo Boss to do a very small line, which I want to keep to just 10-12 pieces, but what I want to do is sit with the designers for a couple of days bashing some stuff out.” PeopleWantWellsDifferentMomentsStuffLinesTalkingPiecesCoupleDesignerJapanDifferent ThingsBoss Author:Jay Kay