Being Horizontal Quotes

#1. We think of stories a lot of the time as being horizontal texts, beginning to end. But I love the idea of having little vertical spikes in the story, too.

Lauren Groff

#2. We will have to call especially loud to reach Our angels, who are hard of hearing; they are hiding In the jugs of silence filled during our wars.

Robert Bly

#3. Should it matter what genre it is if the book is good?

Colleen Hoover

#4. Hollywood gave us far more Muslim terrorists in the Eighties and Nineties than it has since 9/11.

Mark Steyn

#5. The print is devised so that I can cut the dresses on the bias, so they work around the body. It's not like a regular print that you buy and ends up being a vertical and a horizontal placement. It works around the body.

John Galliano

#6. Without being tiresome. They lacked that all-important dimension of physics: torque. Too much time ahead, too little behind, like a man trying to carry a horizontal ladder with a grip at one end.

Nancy Kress

#7. A man who knows that time and the train wait for no man.

Neil Gaiman

#8. Here lies, in a "horizontal" position The "outside" case of Peter Pendulum, watch-maker. He departed this life "wound up" In hopes of being "taken in hand" by his Maker, And of being thoroughly "cleaned, repaired" and "set a-going" In the world to come.

Woodrow Wilson

#9. Haunted by demons of the past, hounded by demons not yet met, the nevermore and evermore left her little peace." ~A Tale of Two Women

Kimberly Kinrade

#10. When you give people who are being financially responsible money, you are enabling them to continue a bad habit. So you are actually helping by saying, "Love you but no."

Michelle Singletary

#11. Don't worry. We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged. She

Ken Follett

#12. New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable - but certainly surmountable.

Jerry Saltz

#13. Horizontal (human-centered) grief is much less concerned with being broken and more concerned with being busted.

Matt Chandler

#14. She lives in Mojave in a Winnebago. His name is Bobby, he looks like a potato.

Frank Zappa

#15. The outer purpose belongs to the horizontal dimension of space and time; the inner purpose concerns a deepening of your Being in the vertical dimension of the timeless Now.

Eckhart Tolle

#16. Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it.

LeCrae

#17. We must keep both our femininity and our strength.

Indra Devi

#18. He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.

Herman Melville

#19. I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering.

John Green

#20. Jewish status is defined by the divine election of Israel and his descendants. One does not become a Jew by one's own volition.

David Novak

#21. Three times Jan had been called to the colours (the army), but each time had been deferred because of his deplorable physical condition..when every male who could stand halfway erect was being shipped to Verdun to undergo a radical change in posture from the vertical to the eternal horizontal

Gunter Grass

#22. Best friends might loathe us, if what things perverse we know of our own selves they also knew.

Richard Chenevix Trench

#23. The reason I'm doing a sitcom is because it's much more approachable.

Tommy Wiseau

#24. The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.

Shana Alexander