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"As I’m so often reminded what a priceless gift my life is, I ache with everything in me to make it count, so that when I finally cross the finish line, I’ll hear the words, 'Well done, good and faithful servant."
"Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted."
"A doctor is not criticized for describing the manifestations and symptoms of an illness, even though the symptoms may be disgusting. I feel that a writer has the right to the same freedom In fact, I think that the time has come for the line between literature and science, a purely arbitrary line, to be erased."
"The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line."
"What is that unforgettable line?"
"You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color."
"It don't mean nothing til you sign it on the dotted line."
"Somebody once told me, ‘Manage the top line, and the bottom line will follow.’ What's the top line? It's things like, why are we doing this in the first place? What's our strategy? What are customers saying? How responsive are we? Do we have the best products and the best people? Those are the kind of questions you have to focus on."
"My affection for CinemaScope initially was my affection for the horizontal line as I learned it from having been apprenticed to an architect who was someone named Frank Lloyd Wright."
"When you cross the line, it is such a wonderful feeling it's hard to describe."
"There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume."
"A warrior carries his shield for the sake of the entire line."
"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."
"Develop a clean line of action for your leading character"
"You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece."
"The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health."
"He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory."
"The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy."
"I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at once. I realized very early that this was the only possible way for me to work out all the problems."
"It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that as yet we have found it better to trust the public judgment, rather than the magistrate, with the discrimination between truth and falsehood. And hitherto the public judgment has performed that office with wonderful correctness."
