We know that's the bottom line: if money is made, the powers that be pay attention.
There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.
It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.
As they prepared themselves to go ashore no one doubted in theory that at least a certain percentage of them would remain on the island dead, once they set foot on it. But no one expected to be one of these. Still it was an awesome thought and as the...
…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday a...
How do you think we smart we realy are? If the whole world, economic, and everything around us, is based on one thing. If you push a green button, you'll get banana. Now, you have only one button left, red one. If you push red button, you'll get noth...
They couldn't talk. They were not good talkers, either of them. And once, long ago now, she had bought a notebook for a course. It lay empty and forgotten on the kitchen table until one afternoon, when she had gone out to the shops and he was worried...
We bumped into other silent lines of kids going in the same direction. We looked like we were much younger and our lines were headed to the cafeteria or recess or the carpool line. Or it could’ve been a fire drill. Except for the stone-faced police...
I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue. If it does, I can feel a sense of ...
The bottom line is down where it belongs - at the bottom.
I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.
There's a fine line between being sweet and innocent and being a tough broad.
There's a fine line between deserving and just desserts.
Length of a straight line is determined by the two tiny dots on both ends
There's a fine line between comedy and the darkest place ever.
The tabloids operate in an amoral parallel universe where the bottom line is selling newspapers.
We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.
Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.
The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity.
The party line is that stocks historically have outperformed all other investment plans.
The line between failure and success is so fine. . . that we are often on the line and do not know it.
