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You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. -- Shonda Rhimes
Stop the bullsh*t. Stop drawing lines in the sand like previous generations [have done]. -- Michael Skolnik
The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of drawing lines. -- Felix Frankfurter
In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
I close my eyes and can see men drawing lines in the dust. America pushes through the membrane of mist and smoke, and I'm a small boy again in Bogalusa. -- Yusef Komunyakaa
At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them -- Shonda Rhimes
I've got two girls, and they both make beautiful drawings. One of them really has a gift for the way that she colors around certain lines. -- Mark Grotjahn
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. -- William Strunk, Jr.
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. -- William Strunk, Jr.
In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better. -- Paul Klee
With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to serve as a graphic identity. After a number of sketches, I went into my own abstract vernacular of drawn lines and shapes to create the composition for the poster design. -- John Van Hamersveld
I think my most famous was 'Poco's Legend.' It's a white album with a simple line drawing of a horse. It almost has a Picasso feel to it. I remember that Rusty Young, the lead singer of the band, said, 'I want you to draw a horse for the song 'Legend,' which is about a phantom spirit horse. I want you to do it in several lines.' -- Phil Hartman
A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. -- William Strunk, Jr.
She was a large, disordered woman, like a child's drawing that didn't stay within the lines. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
The Secret of Drawing consists of just two things: 1) Making lines on paper; and 2) Choosing where they go. -- James A. Owen
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face. -- Jorge Luis Borges

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