Diagonals Quotes

#1. It's hard to say goodbye for good at any time or any place. It's harder still to say it through a meshed wire. It crisscrossed his face into little diagonals, gave me only little broken-up molecules of it at a time. It stenciled a cold, rigid frame around every kiss.

Cornell Woolrich

#2. The page contained a single, unfamiliar symbol. It looked like a backward S with the diagonals of an open triangle cutting through it. A straight line bisected both shapes. Could be creepy. Could be nothing.

Erin Kellison

#3. Let's see... "Advanced Flanking Theory", by U.R. Skrood. "Fighting on the Grid", by Minnie Churse. "Moving on Diagonals", by Wun and Ahaff. Ah ha! Here it is: "Attacks of Opportunity Explained", by Ben Dover and Taye Kitt.

Rich Burlew

#4. Think, for a moment, of the countless happy childhood hours you spent with this amazing device: Drawing perfect horizontals, drawing perfect verticals, drawing really spastic diagonals, trying to scrape away the silver powder from the window so you could look inside.

Dave Barry

#5. Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.

Edward James Olmos

#6. We tell stories of other people's marriages, Detective Hastroll thought. We are experts in their parables and parabolas. Be can we tell the story of our own. If we could, Hastroll thought, there might be no murders. If we could, we might avoid our own cruelties and crimes.

Adam Ross

#7. I hate art auctions.

Jerry Saltz

#8. During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.

George Andrew Olah

#9. This is college?' Schyler asked. 'or Downton Abbey?

Melissa De La Cruz

#10. Your lip," says he. "You've put on considerable many frills since I been away. I'll take you down

Mark Twain

#11. While we may not mind being used, we resent deeply being made to feel discarded.

Chris Matthews

#12. When I was in Minnesota serving in the state Senate and in Washington, D.C., I did everything I could to defeat cap and trade. I didn't work to implement cap and trade.

Michele Bachmann

#13. All art is based on non-conformity.

Ben Shahn

#14. Why, therefore, do we delay to abandon our hopes of this world, and give ourselves wholly to seek after God and the blessed life? But

Augustine Of Hippo