Quotes About Line

building and running software systems is a sociotechnical activity, not an assembly line in a factory.

On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.

No frontier for an American is uncrossable, including the so-called color line, and no person in the United States is an alien because of his color.

On the verbal portion I missed four questions, all having to do with choosing a word in a series that doesn't belong. I have always had trouble with that line of questioning. Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.

The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.

We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man.

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

furbling v. Having to wander through a maze of ropes at an airport or bank even when you're the only person in line.

LL Cool J should be the spokesman for a line of pajamas called Ladies Love Cool Jammies.

working on a railway line crew. Every man in that all-male group was tested by the others during the

However, as powerful as the Straight Line System is, it completely breaks down in the absence of one crucial element, which is: You need to take immediate control of the sale.

not every curve is a line.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Yet the four spaces are not an assembly line for growing community.

A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the greater segment, so is the greater to the lesser.

In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.

Ultimately, the Niners just felt at the end of the day like the right place to be. I was really impressed with the way they run their organization, impressed with the winning, impressed with coaches and players. Everything felt like it was in line.

The word deadline comes from the American Civil War, when prison camps set boundaries and any prisoner who crossed a line was shot.

The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop—for convenience, the one hundredth meridian—you have reached the West.

sé que las líneas del amor no son iguales, y que una de ellas, la que va de la madre a la hija, debería ser más firme que la que va de la hija a la madre;

According to a later theorem four worlds proceed by an emanation in different gradations. This is expressed by Ibn Latif thus: As the point extends and thickens into a line, the line into the plane, the plane into the expanded body, thus God's self-manifestation unfolds itself in the different worlds.

DUTY, n. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end of a suspended chain; you can sway him slightly to the right or the left, but remove your hand and he falls into line with the other links.

Ueck asks] 'What are you guys doin'?' They don't really respond, and Ueck tells them to get in line. And, they do—one cop at the front of the line, the other at the rear. We march roughly two or three blocks from that point, led by police officers, to the hotel.