Lines Quotes - Page 24

• Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging map of social, economic, and cultural segregation even greater permanence.

  Richard Florida

  Class, Giving, Maps

  Richard Florida (2009). “Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life”, p.272, Basic Books

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• The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Daughter, Hair, Brown

  Charles Stuart Calverley, “The Auld Wife”

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• I want to have my own line and collection.

  Christian Siriano

  Want, Collections, My Own

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• Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.

  Philip James Bailey

  Stars, War, Moon

  Philip James Bailey (1860). “Festus: A Poem”, p.466

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• You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product but if your bottom line goes bust then that's it.

  Mukesh Ambani

  May, Economy, Bottom

  "I think we changed the whole business ethos in India: Mukesh Ambani". Interview with Sudeep Chakravarti, indiatoday.intoday.in. June 30, 1993.

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• I think there are multiple studies now to demonstrate that diversity, a better balance between genders, but also between different fields as well, is actually conducive to better growth, better bottom line, better results.

  Christine Lagarde

  Thinking, Diversity, Growth

  "IMF chief Christine Lagarde on removing hurdles from a strong global economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. April 2, 2014.

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• What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression to this new space of which I had an inkling. So I began to paint chiefly still lifes, because in nature there is a tactile, I would almost say a manual space... that was the earliest Cubist painting - the quest for space.

  Georges Braque

  Expression, Space, Giving

  "Letters of the Great Artists - From Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, 1963.

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• The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches of light and shadow, and raise a ridge, or sink a hollow, not to represent an actual ridge or hollow, but to get a line of light, or a spot of darkness.

  John Ruskin

  Light, Darkness, Shadow

  John Ruskin (1866). “The seven lamps of architecture”, p.142

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• A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the mouth utters its words. If what the mouth utters is unclear or foolish or mendacious, it must be that the meditations are the same. But the line runs both ways. The words of the mouth will become the meditations of the heart, and the habit of loose talk loosens the fastenings of our understanding.

  Richard Mitchell

  Running, Heart, Meditation

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• I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science … it is by this daily striving after knowledge that man has raised himself to the unique position he occupies on earth, and that his power and well-being have continually increased.

  Marie Curie

  Knowledge, Science, Unique

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• If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action. Instead of becoming sidetracked by distractions and diversions, your time is focused on a straight line from start to finish.

  Brian Tracy

  Clear Goals, Focus, Becoming

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• Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can both repose and energy be seen in a painting's line and color, plane and volume, surface and depth, detail and composition? - and is the true effect of a good painting on the spectator one that makes at once for repose and energy, calmness and intensity, serenity and stir?

  Eli Siegel

  Artist, Color, Serenity

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• You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.

  Abe Burrows

  Curves, Ends, Audience

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• What motivates people to be late?... Some people are drawn to the adrenaline rush of that last-minute sprint to the finish line. Others receive an ego boost from over-scheduling and filling each moment with an activity.

  Harvey Mackay

  People, Ego, Lasts

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• Until I saw my drawings replayed on the iPad, I'd never seen myself draw. Someone watching me would be concentrating on the exact moment, but I'd always be thinking a little bit ahead. That's especially so in a drawing where you are limiting yourself, a line drawing for example. When you are doing them you are very tense, because you have to reduce everything to such simple terms.

  David Hockney

  Simple, Thinking, Ipads

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• I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more.

  David Hockney

  Drawing, Silence, Noise

  David Hockney (1977). “David Hockney”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• Definition of inertia: 'The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in it lies, endeavours to preserve its present state, whether it be of rest or of moving uniformly forward in a straight line.

  Isaac Newton

  Lying, Moving, Body

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• It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't.

  Bob Dylan

  Inspiration, Writing, Giving

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• I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  House, Magic, Bay Area

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• It doesn't matter what the income level of your family is, or if English is the first or second language. It makes no difference. The bottom line is that every child can be an academic champion, an academic champion and a superstar in academics.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Children, Differences, Champion

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• Concentrate on a single feature - as, build all toward one eye - make all lines lead toward that eye.

  Robert Henri

  Eye, Concentration, Features

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.245, Basic Books

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• There's a quote from Hamlet that is my guide... He tells the players not to exaggerate but to hold a mirror up to nature. Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Player, Mirrors, Guides

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• Do we not find freedom along the guiding lines of discipline?

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Discipline

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• A well-judging man will open his trunk-line of study in such a direction that, while habitually adhering to it, he may enjoy a ready access to such other fields of knowledge as are most nearly related to it.

  James Fitzjames Stephen

  Men, Judging, Research

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• Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity, bringing forward those parts of an object which are always most distant from the eye - namely its outlines.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Eye, Perspective, Proportion

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