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There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.


Antoni Gaudi

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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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TAMSIN EGERTON There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
EDOUARD MANET We weren't sharp, ... There's no way around that.
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MARTIN FILLER Those who think only in straight lines cannot see around a curve.
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formed years and mi...
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Life's a circle. There are no lines we can cross.
F.K. PRESTON Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.
OSCAR NIEMEYER I'm a Baroque person. More than Baroque, I'm a Rococo person. I don't draw straight lines.
NUNO ROQUE Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore m...
JAMES P. HOGAN Human thinking can skip over a great deal, leap over small misunderstandings, can contain ifs and bu...
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WILLIAM J. CLINTON I know there is no straight road
No straight road in this world
Only a giant labyrinth <...
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA I have never understood why so many gardeners favour straight lines and narrow, regulated borders; p...
JOHN BURNSIDE Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing...
GORDON GRAHAM I'm a corner, dog. Corners have a short memory, or I wouldn't be able to play out there.
WILL ALLEN What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS The next government will be formed from consensus. There are no red lines.
ABDUL HAKIM The next government will be formed from consensus. There are no red lines.
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BRITT EKLAND Binary approach is an obsolete school of thought in the process of structuring human perception towa...
TOBA BETA Fleet managers must also keep heavy vehicles in perfect mechanical order and cut no corners when it ...
ANDRE TRAUT What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved ...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS I don't like laziness or cutting corners.
VICTORIA BECKHAM I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking thro...
MAX BECKMANN There are no straight backs, no symmetrical faces, many wry noses, and no even legs. We are a crooke...
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SALMAN RUSHDIE Behind a barbed-wire fence, a dirt road disappears into the distance in the pine trees and corners. ...
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RAY TANNER We are our own entity and Ralph Martin must follow our rules and regulations. Until he gets things s...
BOBBY LEE Straight weak in your life as you go through, no spiritual meat just straight TOFU!
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ILAN STAVANS It sucks, but no Long Islands or margaritas when you drink. It has to be straight vodka.
NICOLE POLIZZI Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate.
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PLUTARCH In this unbelievable universe in which we live there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching...
PEARL BUCK We can sit in our corners mute forever while our sisters and our selves are distorted and destroyed,...
AUDRE LORDE No doubt. Those corners played their fannies off against the best wide receiver in the country.
CHUCK AMATO It's no big deal, ... I'm 18 years old. Give me a break! I'm trying to have some fun here. I'm bored...
SANIA MIRZA There is no paradise for you or me.
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GRAHAM SMITH It's really hard to find corners with that physical nature to them.
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ARLEN SPECTER I guess it’s true what they say," observed Jace. "There are no straight men in the trenches."
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SUNDAY ADELAJA This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or desponde...
JOSEPH BARBER LIGHTFOOT One must always keep the tools of statecraft sharp and ready. Power and fear – sharp and ready.
FRANK HERBERT The theory of ramification is one of pure colligation, for it takes no account of magnitude or posit...
JAMES JOSEPH SYLVESTER We don't have a No. 1 line. We have four pretty good lines.
DAVE BOITZ Mexican stocks were hammered on the back of the sharp sell-off in U.S. markets. There was no two way...
FABIO GHEILERMAN The only way to stay sharp is to do live shows. There is no part-time comedy.
RON WHITE We cannot decide if she is blunt or sharp
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CHRISTOPH EIBL Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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TERRY PRATCHETT Our lives aren't prepackaged along narrative lines and, therefore, by its very nature, reality-b...
DAVID SHIELDS You haven’t locked yourself in any rooms or rocked in any corners, right?”
I rolled my eyes...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT Nature is crooked. I wanted right angles and straight lines. Ice! Oh, why do they all drip? You cut ...
PAUL THEROUX Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons ha...
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GEORGE WEINBERG It's all predicated by the defense. There's no trapping, just straight man.
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WILLIAM ROE Anything can be discussed at the negotiating table. We have no red lines on anything.
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DANIEL BOUTON We sail along straight lines in a grid pattern to get a continuous view of what's beneath, because w...
SCOTT MCPHERSON Our goal is to ensure that there are no undue effects on existing uses, scenic character, and natura...
HARLEY LEE There are many doors to a house. You've got to try every one.
DREW KERR Maybe people truly did have differen corners in their hearts.
CATHERINE ANDERSON I like old corners.
DAVE MATTHEWS You couldn't get a sled around those corners,
MIKE GREEN Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel w...
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