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"The famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity of line, simplicity, economy of effect."
"If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn."
"There's no straight line to progress."
"I change guitars as they come and go. I have one I played for almost a decade, but I've put it away. It was the first McCarty. Now, I'm playing one I grabbed off the line. I've been playing it ever since."
"I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability."
"In the old systems, hierarchies emanate power from above to below through forms of line management and are ideologically supported by cosmologies and theologies featuring celestial rulers and their deputies - the 'rule of the best.'"
"Live and let live, be and let be, Hear and let hear, see and let see. . . . Live and let live and remember this line: 'Your bus'ness is your bus'ness and my bus'ness is mine.'"
"If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter."
"Writers are nothing but beggars with a good line."
"When I saw my first movie, I was fine, but I thought, "Oh, my heavens. It's not about just standing there on my mark and saying these lines. I need to actually act.""
"I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?"
"Everything has gotten vulgar and out of line for children to watch. It's more of a swearing match."
"It is okay to be yourself, it is okay to color outside the line if that is who you are"
"Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics."
"If the husband is always the prime suspect, the lover must be second in line."
"Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration."
"in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it."
"They dashed on towards that thin red line tipped with steel."
"Lay my head on the railroad line. Train come along; pacify my mind."
"I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good."
