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“Too many dots,” Miller said. “Not enough lines.”
Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 10 (p. 109)
“Take two opposites, connect the dots, and you have a straight line.”
Signposts to Elsewhere (2008)
“Our course of advance … is neither a straight line nor a curve. It is a series of dots and dashes.”
Other writings, The Paradoxes of Legal Science (1928)
Context: Our course of advance... is neither a straight line nor a curve. It is a series of dots and dashes. Progress comes per saltum, by successive compromises between extremes, compromises often … between "positivism and idealism". The notion that a jurist can dispense with any consideration as to what the law ought to be arises from the fiction that the law is a complete and closed system, and that judges and jurists are mere automata to record its will or phonographs to pronounce its provisions.
“The line "because you're mine, I walk the line."”
It kept coming to me, you know? But I was — I was … young and not been married too long. Yes, it kept coming to me. Because you're mine, I walk the line. And then the words just naturally flowed. It was an easy song to write.
CNN interview (2002)
“Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight -
Other days the line tends to deviate.”
In or Out
Song lyrics
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sea of Honey (Disc 1)