1,029 Quotes About Lines

  • Author J. M. W. Turner
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    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.

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  • Author James Thurber
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    Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other

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  • Author Joe Torre
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    Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an anxiety.

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  • Author John Tillotson
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    Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.

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  • Author Jonathan Tropper
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    I'm generally somebody who hopes for the best. It's not what one ought to do in my line of work [screenwriting], but it is what I do.

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  • Author Lee Trevino
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    Somewhere along the line I'll be recognized as one of the top players in the Nicklaus era. That's all I want to be remembered for.

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  • Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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    When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.

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  • Author Paul Theroux
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    Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.

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