"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."
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"There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle."
"Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book."
"It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Oglivy, but a few lines of print and a couple of faked photographs would soon bring him into existence... Comrade Oglivy, who had never existed in the present, now existed in the past, and when once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar."
"A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement."
"As more consumers demand less sugar, the food and beverage manufacturers will eventually come into line with what the consumers want."
"The workingmen have been exploited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody."
"The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability."
"Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line."
"But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?"
"My lips, I've used collagen. I line my lips with collagen."
"I don't know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a bird on an overhead power line seems as great as a Beethoven symphony. then you forget it and you're back again."
"You are in every line I have ever read."
"Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence."
"My attraction had been immediate and profound. And it had nothing to do with the way he looked. My attraction was to what resided between his lines."
"The English never draw a line without blurring it."
"Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself."
"I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten."
"A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy."
"The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line."