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the most important and stunning discovery I made at art school was the ability to live by the single line... no shading, no multiple lines, no cross-hatching, no subterfuge. Just that line.


Chuck Jones

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NO DOUBT It must be an odd person indeed that can say for certain they are normal.
INITIALLY NO Take this drink as a token of
my disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be sh...
INITIALLY NO Take this drink as a token of my disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be shining...
INITIALLY NO It's nice to finish with a great shot like that. It was a nice way to finish up. It looked pretty go...
DONALD NO I was struggling on the greens (early on the back nine) and had lost a little bit of confidence and ...
DONALD NO They tell me to be quiet
When I’d rather cause a riot
And have everyone screaming
O...
INITIALLY NO We had no doubt that they were guilty.
JUROR NO We did the right thing for Mary. It was not an easy decision, and it was not unanimous at first.
JUROR NO Before, I said I could be fair, but I don't think I can.
JUROR NO We actually challenged one another in the deliberation room. We challenged the issues, and we came t...
JUROR NO I saw two birds having dangerously kinky sex on the main road, while several cars ran above them jus...
INITIALLY NO I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I think the cruise lines are going to do better, ... Carnival is the No. 1 cruise line that we have ...
WILLIAM ROE Enjoy it, learn from it and more than anything, never take your health for granted. Don’t just sei...
CALVIN WADE Life is the everlasting gobstopper with its complications of the starter being birth, the main cours...
GARY F EVANS... There's no way he can hide from me. He has to line up in front of me. And I'm going to remind him of...
JOEY PORTER They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
CHARLIE PARKER Both teams just laid it on the line. It was a nice clean game. No late hits, no cheap hits. It was t...
JACOB BYLER A girl's life was defined by lines: fine lines, hairlines, bikini lines, class lines, the tightrope ...
THEA DEVINE No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation...
FRANK NORRIS The moments that define lives aren't always obvious. They don't scream LEDGE, and nine times out of ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB If you need something inspirational, just point up to the top of your vision.
MAZ NO PARADISE Sad but inspirational
MAZ NO PARADISE We face a new world everyday, try to understand them and love them more than our yesterday.
MAZ NO PARADISE Believe me, Dream is better than Hope but both Combined is the best.
MAZ NO PARADISE Miracle is not so far away but easy to fade away.
MAZ NO PARADISE Recognize every time before doing anything that you always do a miracle.
MAZ NO PARADISE Sometime if you look up in the sky. There is a path of your destiny.
MAZ NO PARADISE There is no paradise for you or me.
MAZ NO PARADISE How much does he lack himself, he who must have many things?
SEN NO RIKYū How much does he lack himself who must have many things?
SEN NO RIKYū Prices are rising, but not fast enough to prompt the central bank to raise interest rates. Inflation...
IM NO JUNG I expect consumer spending to continue to improve. The central bank is likely to raise interest rate...
IM NO JUNG The negative impact of high international oil prices was big in August. We can still expect a recove...
IM NO JUNG No one has the guts to draw the line.
JOHN HALL He's our captain. When you line up against him, he'll be your No. 1 headache. You won't be having a ...
DANIEL BARROW You've got to put it in play out here. There is no need to start throwing it off line and giving sho...
CAMILO VILLEGAS There's no way we could have had as smooth of a transition at defensive line.
DON PATTERSON We don't have a No. 1 line. We have four pretty good lines.
DAVE BOITZ The court has found no single mechanical formula that can accurately draw the constitutional line in...
STEPHEN G. BREYER The most important things was the free throw line, no question. The other thing was, down the stretc...
ANNE DONOVAN Philip doesn't let go, his eyes glinting with rage. "We're gonna survive this thing,and we're gonna ...
ROBERT KIRKMAN There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, ...
JAMES GURNEY The moments that define lives aren't always obvious. They don't always scream LEDGE, and nine times ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB The bottom line is that everyone would have benefited from the school. Now, no one is going to benef...
ANN HOLTZ There's no clear line, no strategy.
HORACIO SERPA There's such a fine line. It's a little risky, but we'll make the call through how he practices. The...
TRENT YAWNEY As a competitor, you want to be on the field when the game is on the line. So no, it wasn't fun from...
MIKE REILLY AOL was a little light on the top line but made it up on the cost line. There were no surprises base...
ROBERT MARTIN They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
CHARLIE PARKER It is no longer an easy place for people under the poverty line to live,
LYNN MILLER The bottom-line pressures at Time Inc. are no secret,
MARK WHITAKER It's stunning. I said, 'Oh my God, no.' I broke out in tears, really.
CAROL MAXWELL That was no fly ball, that was a line drive, ... I knew I had no chance to catch that ball. Did you ...
EMIL BROWN No, no, no, ... He's the potentially good Julius Jones.
BILL PARCELLS It is probable that most contracts are not renewed at Yale, ... There's no assumption of moving on d...
ANDREW HILL When BEE in life not desirable , how can FREEBIES be.
ANUJ SOMANY When we live in the past, there is no future.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS He that hath no cross deserves no crown.
FRANCIS QUARLES No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess
ISAAC NEWTON No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
ISAAC NEWTON Where there is money there is no art.
WILLIAM BLAKE The results were awful. Clearly Maytag has made no progress on bringing cost savings to the bottom l...
CRAIG HUTSON Across the field I saw the line judge (Rick Page), and he was shaking his head no.
TONY HAYNES They didn't understand that she held his heart, held it so utterly that there was nothing he wouldn'...
NALINI SINGH We laid it on the line. I have no regrets.
HASSAN ADAMS To exist here, I’ll have to become skilled in saying no—an art in which I was once well accompli...
DOUG COOPER You no longer live for yourself
SUNDAY ADELAJA There's a lot of pressure on our quarterback. We run a no-huddle offense, and he makes all the line ...
NOAH FEHRENBACH The bottom line is about the technique. The little things. Fine-tuning what we have to do. No matter...
KURT WARNER There is no firm dividing line between what is an epidemic and what is not an epidemic, but I think,...
JULIE GERBERDING This proves there's no such thing as the No Smile Line, don't you think.
GEORGE HIGGINS Ability has no school.
TURKISH PROVERB Life's a circle. There are no lines we can cross.
F.K. PRESTON There would be no reward, no settling of accounts, nor - most stunning - a syllable of gratitude for...
STACY SCHIFF The philosophy of being able as a woman to decide what you want and being unashamed about making it ...
SHARON STONE The philosophy of being able as a woman to decide what you want and being unashamed about making it ...
SHARON STONE Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If we get no snow, that has implications down the line.
GREGG GARFIN The family is a red line. There's no doubt about that.
JOSHUA LANDIS There is no finish line.
NIKE CORPORATION No. 21, we've got to contain him - he wreaks havoc in there. We've got to single him out.
HINES WARD I'm going to keep it to the 'No comment' line, ... I think it's safer that way.
GEORGE MOSCONE Now, with the Internet, there are multiple vendors and no protection standards.
WILLIAM MORRIS Practically no railroad, even as late as the sixties, was wider than another. They were all single-t...
JOHN MOODY NO” is a complete sentence. It does not require an explanation to follow. You can truly answer som...
SHARON E. RAINEY I wanted to be put in line with the top earners at the football club. I've left it in City's hands, ...
JOEY BARTON Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definit...
PAUL RAND I kind of just lucked into and fell into the other profession. It was really just an outgrowth of th...
MARTIN MULL Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come ou...
CHARLIE PARKER We were really trying to get Spangler the ball. She really has no fear at the line.
MARK MELTON Buy yourself some time. Interrupt the ‘yes’ cycle, using phrases like “I’ll get back to you,...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE You, the people, should count. For me it is no longer important that I fight. What is most important...
CHARLES TAYLOR Live in the moment and make the most of every single hour that you're alive. Like it says on the...
CONRAD ANKER It's the equivalent of running a goal-line defense. It makes no sense at all.
ANDY RAMIREZ Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definit...
PAUL RAND How could they find no wrongdoing?
KEVIN MARTINGAYLE ‎... nothing can be perfectly granted to be the best!no perfect, no best! you know why?...we are j...
APPLES ROMANO It really depends, but, generally speaking, just because of the mechanics of it, voice-over is easie...
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK When children are exposed to advertisements for unhealthy food, they will, in turn, consume signific...
CHUCK NORRIS To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn&#...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poo...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you...
CHUCK NORRIS If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better...
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