Horizontally Quotes

#1. There is some confusion because we only recently began our marketing. We're in an era were people need to think about business processes and applications horizontally ... We need to think of the enterprise not as an island of stand-alone technology.

Carly Fiorina

#2. I'd only stop talking when... I disappeared, or when I slept, which is the same as disappearing but horizontally.

Sabina Berman

#3. I was skydiving horizontally.

Steven Wright

#4. We created the hierarchical, pyramidal, managerial system because we needed it to keep track of people and things people did; with the computer to keep track, we can restructure our institutions horizontally.

John Naisbitt

#5. You've got to face facts and the fact is life is a joke, a fucking bad joke, or, no, a bad fucking joke. There's no point taking it seriously because whatever happens, and I mean whatever the fuck, the punch line is the same: you go out horizontally. You see the point? No fucking point.

Jeet Thayil

#6. She turned towards me and narrowed her eyes ... narrowed them horizontally, not vertically.

Hugh Laurie

#7. He didn't miss a beat. "Is this an interview?"
"Yes."
"What job am I applying for?"
"The job of my dance and life partner - figuratively, literally, horizontally, vertically, and hopefully, laterally. And, depending on how flexible you are, diagonally.

Penny Reid

#8. It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.

Gary Hamel

#9. Koko B. Ware is a crossword wrestler: he enters the ring vertically, and leaves horizontally.

Jerry Lawler

#10. Also, truth be told, he wasn't very good at flying a helicopter, despite several lessons. He seemed to lack the important ability to orient himself vertically as well as horizontally, which led to disagreements involving trees.

Maggie Stiefvater

#11. In large organizations the dilution of information as it passes up and down the hierarchy, and horizontally across departments, can undermine the effort to focus on common goals.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#12. During the late afternoon and early evening there is a specific dimension that interconnects with our physical world. This particular dimension can be visualized as series of horizontally shaped geometric planes that extent out into infinity.

Frederick Lenz

#13. I realized early on, maybe better than some of my competitors did, that a textile business can run only if you have scale. I decided to horizontally and vertically integrate, adding everything from spinning, dyeing, weaving, and stitching to processing and packing.

Mian Muhammad Mansha

#14. Professional loyalty now flows "horizontally" to and from your network rather than "vertically" to your boss, as Dan Pink has noted.

Reid Hoffman

#15. I took you to an intimate restaurant, then to a suggestive movie. There's nothing left to talk about, unless it's horizontally.

Olivia Newton-John

#16. Either you will be getting your identity vertically, from who you are in Christ, or you will be shopping for it horizontally in the situations, experiences, and relationships of your daily life.

Paul David Tripp

#17. But when I took up my pen, my hand made big, jerky letters like those of a child, and the lines sloped down the page from left to right horizontally, as if they were loops of string lying on the paper, and someone had come along and blown them askew.

Sylvia Plath

#18. horizontally compressed

Nicholson Baker

#19. Stab me if you can enjoy it - but not if it feels like a duty. Stab me vertically if I'm lying down and horizontally if I'm running

Steve Aylett

#20. It's important to realize that you can search for life in only two places. Either you have found life to the fullest vertically or you are shopping for it horizontally.

Paul David Tripp

#21. Additional twenty feet. Not much if the ladder was at an angle - but because it would have to be positioned nearly horizontally out over the river, it would test the limits of what was safe. Had

Nicholas Sparks

#22. I pick up the thin, delicate silver chain that has a flat bar that horizontally connects the chain together. I see that the bar is etched with tiny letters that scribe: And though she be but little, she is fierce

E.K. Blair

#23. I know a lot of people in the city, at all levels, horizontally and vertically - and that to me is a privilege, to me as a person but also a writer. I've dined with billionaires, and I play soccer with busboys.

Aleksandar Hemon

#24. We all tend to look for life horizontally when the reality is that we will only ever find life vertically.

Paul David Tripp

#25. Life is like a curve, horizontally or vertically, we are at origin point

Estiana Cahyawati

#26. We have to change the culture from one in which people simply do their own job in their own function to make their own numbers look good (a vertical focus) to one in which people are focused horizontally on the customer and on improving value streams that deliver value across functions.

Jeffrey K. Liker

#27. Lok was running as fast as he could. His head was down and he carried his thorn bush horizontally for balance and smacked the drifts of vivid buds aside with his free hand.

William Golding

#28. If you are not requiring yourself to get your deepest sense of well-being vertically, you will shop for it horizontally, and you will always come up empty.

Paul David Tripp

#29. I've never had my dexterity called into question, but I think if that was ever the case, I could acquit myself by tossing a ball back and forth horizontally between my hands.

Sonia Sotomayor

#30. The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God
and horizontally to other souls; and the more it grows in both directions, the less merely individual and therefore more truly personal it will become.

Evelyn Underhill

#31. Live vertically, not horizontally.

Shannon L. Alder

#32. Did you know rats can leap over ten feet horizontally? And they always aim for the jugular.

Sara Wolf

#33. I have become conscious of my own "cry face." My face puckers like the business end of a hot dog except for my mouth, which stretches in a grimace so wide as to accommodate said hotdog horizontally within it. It's not pretty.

Kelly Wilson

#34. He who hesitates, meditates horizontally

Ed Parker

#35. It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards ... This psychological tuning is ideal for attacking purposes, but what about for defence?

David Bronstein

#36. When we can demonstrate that we can take off horizontally and put something into orbit, then we can begin to talk about increasing the amount of payload. But to say, 'I'm going to do that and put people into orbit' is a real leap.

Buzz Aldrin

#37. Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth.

Blaise Pascal

#38. What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

Elie Wiesel

#39. The life of the spirit may be fairly represented in diagram as a large acute-angled triangle divided horizontally into unequal parts with the narrowest segment uppermost. The lower the segment the greater it is in breadth, depth, and area.

Wassily Kandinsky

#40. A gust of wind rattles the window, and I look out. Leaves are whooshing all over the place, flying past horizontally as if they have engines of their own.

Kate Messner

#41. Last month she'd read that a man's connective tissue aligned horizontally with the skin, whereas a female's went perpendicular - which was why women got lumpy cellulite and men didn't. And doesn't that totally prove that God is male?

Cherise Sinclair

#42. I made a tactical error tonight with Wyatt." She paused "Horizontally."
Sara laughed. "Again?

Jill Shalvis

#43. A man must abide somewhere, a physical roof over his head is not enough; his mind needs its bearings, its points of reference, vertically as well as horizontally. Do we not speak of edifying readings?

Stephen McNeilly

#44. If it doesn't work horizontally as prose ... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry.

Robert Breault