Quotes About Curved Lines

#1. His thoughts were hemmed in. One can only draw curved lines on the terrestrial sphere which, as they extend, forever meet with themselves. At such intersections we always encounter what we have already seen.

Raymond Queneau

#2. His mustache made two curved lines around the sides of his mouth like parentheses, as if everything he might say would be very quiet, and incidental.

Barbara Kingsolver

#3. When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see.

Josef Albers

#4. Nature creates curved lines while humans create straight lines.

Hideki Yukawa

#5. I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.

Michael Faraday

#6. If the old man looked at straight lines to keep his act together, I was going to stare at curved lines and go down in flames.

Natsuo Kirino

#7. I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.

Simon Van Booy

#8. The ship's lines were an elegant array of pure geometry, essentially nothing more than a series of cubes suspended within a curved plane.

Dan Lopez

#9. I want to study the secrets tucked between his elbows and the whispers caught behind his knees. I want to follow the lines of his silhouette with my eyes and the tips of my fingers. I want to trace rivers and valleys along the curved muscles of his body.

Tahereh Mafi

#10. Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream.

Suzanne Collins

#11. The consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.

George Orwell

#12. The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God

Antonio Gaudi

#13. For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the inventions of the cunning and the powerful, in order to maintain or to acquire an unnatural and unjust superiority over the rest of their fellow creatures.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

#14. Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.

Walter Darby Bannard

#15. I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.

Marie Lu

#16. I'm kinda tired. I was up all night trying to round off infinity. Then I got bored and went out and painted passing lines on curved roads.

Steven Wright

#17. Barack and I have been in the public eye for many years now, and we've developed a thick skin along the way. When you're out campaigning, there will always be criticism. I just take it in stride, and at the end of the day, I know that it comes with the territory.

Michelle Obama

#18. I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones.

Max Beckmann

#19. What's a fracking Cylon?

Kevin Hearne

#20. Q The Lord is at hand; 6 r do not be anxious about anything, s but in everything by prayer and supplication t with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Anonymous

#21. Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

W.G. Sebald

#22. And thought she be but little, she is fierce.

William Shakespeare