I have ALWAYS THOUGHT that L.A. is a MOTOR CITY that DEVELOPED linear downtowns.

Germany's path to greater military ASSERTIVENESS has not been linear, and it NEVER will be. Germans do not BELIEVE that talking at roundtables solves EVERY problem, but neither do they think that shooting does.

Our myopic FOCUS on producing and consuming as cheaply as POSSIBLE has created a linear economy in which OBJECTS are briefly used and then discarded as WASTE.

At 'SNL' there's framed pictures of all the CAST members, and it starts with Dan Aykroyd. It's linear. It just keeps GOING through all these PEOPLE, and then you're at the END of it.

I admire the linear and DECISIVE way a certain kind of man THINKS, to my curlicue boundless OVERTHINKING.

One of the biggest CHALLENGES we have, as BUSINESS owners and people, is that we THINK in linear TERMS.

I had WRITTEN a NOVEL that was more of a classic linear novel, and I worked on it and worked on it for years, and it always seemed LIKE it wouldn't CATCH fire. At a certain point I just scrapped it all, and I kept maybe 15 percent of it, and I wrote those PARTS out on note cards.

I FEEL very protective in the first draft, when all the PIECES are COMING together. I work in a way that is not linear or chronological at all, even with the short story. I will just be WRITING bits and pieces, and then when I have all the pieces on the table, that for me is when it feels like the real work begins.

When you go back and look at what people SAY about my essays, they're always going, 'What is this?' Because they're not exactly like other people's essays... The approach is not at all the recognized approach of a non-fiction WRITER. It's not linear. It isn't pyramidally based on FACT.

Of course my family and FRIENDS are INCREDIBLY valuable to me. They keep me sane, they TEACH me THINGS and I love spending time with them. I THINK that ranking what you value is a sort of western and linear way of looking at things.

'Two' is not WRITTEN in the usual style of a novel. It's a straightforward, linear narrative of my times, as I OBSERVED partition, and is told through multiple CHARACTERS.

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to END. I write hundreds of pages per book that NEVER MAKE it into PRINT.

The WAY that you remember your LIFE, it's never linear. You have flashes of DIFFERENT moments of your life, and the flashes aren't EQUAL; they have different styles.

Linear THINKING typifies a highly DEVELOPED industry. It starts to get these PATTERNS built into it somehow. I'm not SURE how that happens, but CERTAINLY you take a look at dinosaurs.

To some DEGREE. I think that I've always been very much of a chordal person. The chords are the foundation of everything. Some of Yes' stuff is very linear, albeit COMPLEX, but it's single-line melodic stuff. So I kind of had to WEAR a different cap working with Yes. It's not so much chord-based.