Best three & lines Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.”

Way Two Three Lines Logic Certainty One Way Uncertainty Planes Reasoning Two Ways Magnitude Ontology Three Ways

Author:Aristotle

“The poverty line understates the true amount of poverty because it measures it as three times the breadbasket that a family needs, but it doesn't consider all the other things that are inflating far, far faster than food prices.”

Needs Three Lines Poverty Amount Faster Three Times

Author:Robert Reich

“Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart wrote his sonatas within an equally rigid discipline - exposition, development, and recapitulation. Were they dull?.”

Three Lines Development Discipline Dull Strict Sonnet Fourteen Rhyming Sonatas Couplets Recapitulation

Book:Confessions of an advertising man

Source: Confessions of an advertising man

“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

“Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut clothes with respect for the living, three-dimensional body rather than to cover the body with decorative ideas.”

Ideas Body Three Felt Lines My Own Cutting Fashion Design Clothes Attractive

Author:Jil Sander

“I think that you can say something in one line with a look that you might need three lines on a page for normally.”

Thinking Needs Looks Might Three Lines Pages One Line

Author:Guy Pearce

“A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line.”

World Song Three Lines Bottom Singers Bottom Line

Author:Quincy Jones

“I used to play Barbies with my Mormon neighbor friend; it was always, "Oh, we're going to go on a date. Ken's taking us out, and we're going with Ken on a date." And I was like, "We're parachuting behind enemy lines to save the Jews." That's how I played Barbies. I was told when I was a girl that every Jewish woman has to have five children to replace three fifths of our people that were killed. That's how I was raised.”

People Children Play Used Girl Three Lines Behinds Enemy Five Goes On Raised Jew Neighbor Barbie Neighbors Friends

Author:Roseanne Barr

“There are three things a man must do before his life is done; Write two lines in APL, And make the buggers run.”

Men Writing Two Done Running Life Is Three Lines Three Things

Book:The Computer Contradictionary

Source: The Computer Contradictionary

“Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on December 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality. The film has been directed without grace, vision, or originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialog, it will not be because you admire them.”

“My boyfriend got me a computer three years ago. I'll admit it does make things a lot easier. When I was working on a typewriter and I whited out a line, often I would choose a word to go in the space just because it fit. Now I don't have to do that.”

Years Doe Three Lines Space Fit Easier Computer Years Ago Three Years Typewriters My Boyfriend

Author:David Sedaris

“I don't enjoy the diminishing agility of the body!I had knee surgery and I no longer can go do three yoga classes and run. It's not as much fun, physically. But emotionally, it's way more fun. I am so much happier and contented and less agitated - I'm just calmer. So it's like everything in this human existence, it's a trade off - it's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirit. That's a good line. I have to remember that!”

Way Humans Body Running Remember Spirit Three Fun Enjoy Lines Existence Class Like You Yoga Trade Knees Surgery Human Existence Agility Trade Offs Calmer

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“You may write twenty lines one day--or even three like Euripides in three days--and a hundred lines in one more day--and yet on the hundred, may have been expended as much good work, as on the twenty and the three.”

Writing May Has Beens Three Lines One Day Hundred Twenties Good Work One More Day

Book:The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846

Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846

“I understand some of the people's impatience with the show last year. I think that Lisa's (Lili Taylor) story line (marrying Nate with minimal motivation in season three) became a little bit of a diversion - and that happens. It happens in every show.”

People Thinking Years Littles Stories Shows Happens Lasts Motivation Three Bits Lines Little Bit Seasons Last Year Impatience Marrying Diversion

Author:Chris Albrecht

“I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create the kind of 'art' which the confused critics praise for its 'plastic significance,' 'fluid lines,' and 'inner awareness,' or 'must be understood on three levels.”

People Want Kind Art Three Lines Levels Awareness Painting Ambition Understood Praise Critics Burning Confused Significance Plastic Fluid Modernism Painting A Picture

Author:Arnold Friberg

“How often does it happen that an obscure line finds its way into a periodical... is requoted in every book that comes out during the next three months, and "sleeps again!”

Way Doe Book Happens Three Next Lines Sleep Months Obscure Three Months

Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard

“False casting for practice is the best way to achieve the feel of the line in the air, but in actual fishing, false casts should be limited in number to absolute necessity. In the first place, the more false casts you make, the greater are the chances for the fish to see your arm waving, or the line in the air. And the greater are your chances to make a mistake in the cast and lose your timing. Most anglers, especially tyros, false cast too often. Three false casts should be sufficient for any throw and two is better. One is perfect.”

Source: Trout Fishing

“The bottom line is that I'm an actor, so when somebody pitches me a great part, it's a no-brainer. You never know what it's gonna be like, in terms of the actual experience. You can be really excited about a part that can turn out shitty, you can have a bad time, there's a bad egg or two or three, in the bunch, or the producers are weird, or something like that.”

Knows Two Turns Three Actors Term Lines Bottom Excited Bunch Producers Eggs Bottom Line Bad Times No Brainer

Author:Kathy Bates

“The dynamic is unmistakable: fixed lines for phones have been declining at a three-percent rate for the last several years, while the number of Americans opting for cell phone calling keeps increasing. If you are a fixed line provider this trend means trouble. Many of the fixed mobile convergence strategies under consideration end up utilizing a smart phone or dual-mode VoWLAN/Cellular phone that works like a landline phone in the local area and then converts to cell phone calling.”

“There are those, of course, who claim we must give up freedom in exchange for economic progress. Well, pardon me, but anyone trying to sell you that line is no better than a three-card-trick man. One thing becoming more clear every day is that freedom and progress go hand in hand. Throughout the developing world, people are rejecting socialism because they see that it doesn't empower people, it impoverishes them.”

“a novel is not born of a single idea. The stories I've tried to write from one idea, no matter how terrific an idea, have sputtered out and died by chapter three. For me, novels have invariably come from a complex of ideas that in the beginning seemed to bear no relation to each other, but in the unconscious began mysteriously to merge and grow. Ideas for a novel are like the strong guy lines of a spider web. Without them the silken web cannot be spun.”

Writing Ideas Matter Stories Guy Three Strong Grows Born Lines Novel Bears Relation Died Complexes Unconscious Chapters Spiders Terrific Spun Spider Web

Author:Katherine Paterson

“There are different types of readers. People draw lines at which three things intersect: the character, the author, and the reader.”

People Different Character Three Lines Type Reader Draws Three Things

Author:David Bezmozgis

“In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.”

Writing Littles Made Play Three Lines Tragedy Gates Scenarios Informers

Book:The Collected Plays: The tragedies and tragic-comedies

Source: The Collected Plays: The tragedies and tragic-comedies

“I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era.”

Wells Three Lines Studios Eras Bass Amsterdam

Author:Ringo Starr

“I love how my sport reaches out to people with the music and story lines, the glory of standing up for three or four minutes of tough, arduous, gravity-defying skating and all the stuff that goes with it.”

People Stories Three Stuff Sports Lines Four Minutes Glory Tough Standing Reach Out Gravity Skating Defying

Author:Kurt Browning

“People think, 'Oh, well how can 'The Hobbit,' which is one book, become three films?' But you can take one line from an appendice and it turns into a whole sequence.”

People Thinking Wells Book Whole Film Turns Three Lines Sequence One Line Oh Well

Author:Andy Serkis

“Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.”

People Ifs Enough Three Voice Realizing Lines Laughing Jokes Percent Nine Pounds Say Anything Three Times Ninety Making People Laugh Delivery Cocky Ninety Nine

Author:Buddy Hackett

“A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others,thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.”

Ifs May Whole Purpose Culture Three Asks Belief Lines Moral Shapes Elements Strings Solitary Configuration

Book:The Culture We Deserve

Source: The Culture We Deserve

“I look at the natural geological record as a history of the world imperfectly kept and written in a changing dialect; of this history we possess the last volume alone, relating only to two or three countries. Of this volume, only here and there a short chapter has been preserved; and of each page, only here and there a few lines.”

Source: The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 10: The Foundations of The Origin of the Species: Two Essays Written in 1842 and 1844

“Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things. How easy becomes the manipulation of the universe here, how evident the concentration of the intellectual world! Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word liberty entire nations.”

“My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.”

“For three decades, Senator Arlen Specter served the people of Pennsylvania with independence, toughness, determination and an unflinching devotion to the best interests of his constituents and our country. From the committee room to the Senate chamber, Senator Specter offered a voice of reason and passion in every debate - always willing to reach across the aisle and work across party lines to get the job done, regardless of political gamesmanship or gain.”

“One of the first speaking roles I had was in a film called 'Svengali', with Peter O'Toole and Elizabeth Ashley. I was a waiter, and I had about three lines. And I was ready! I had been around people like that, and I knew they were just actors. All the work I had done, it was all there, and I felt like I knew all the mechanics.”

People Firsts Done Film Three Actors Felt Lines Roles Ready Peter Mechanic Waiter Ashley Svengali

Author:Tobin Bell

“Christian - One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife.”

Christian Religion Three Lines Wife Willing Draws Adultery

Author:H. L. Mencken

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