Quotes About Diagonal

#1. There was someone called Hippasus in Greek times who found out about the diagonal of a square and they drowned him because no one wanted to know about things like that. Like what? Numbers that make you uncomfortable and don't relate to oranges.

Caryl Churchill

#2. I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.

David Mitchell

#3. Of metal, if one combined a truss with an arch, if one built diagonal

Ayn Rand

#4. The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

William R. Alger

#5. -they were still practicing the fiendishly difficult pattern at the end of the act where the diagonal lines of swans cross over and dissolve to form three groups: unequal groups, since the number seventeen is notoriously difficult to divide by three.

Eva Ibbotson

#6. All the seats were taken, and I had to squeeze into a three-inch slot. I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. The Diagonal People.

David Mitchell

#7. My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.

Roy Lichtenstein

#8. I hadn't, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my cheeks. They seemed touching, and rather spectacular, and I thought I would carry them around with me, like the relic of a dead lover, till they wore off of their own accord.

Sylvia Plath

#9. The base sides of the Great Pyramid of Giza referred to the solar calendar while the backbone of the structure itself (manifested in the whole design emanating from the base diagonal figure) was modeled according to the measure of the lunar year.

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#10. I am still on my zigzag way, pursuing the diagonal between reason and heart.

Ruskin Bond

#11. A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance.

Dan Flavin

#12. All art is relationships, all art. Design is relationships. Design in a relationship between form and content ... Your glasses are round. Your collar is diagonal. These are relationships. Your mouth is an oval. Your nose is a triangle - this is what design is.

Paul Rand

#13. The inadequacy of unidimensional plotting along a continuum (in this case the diagonal of a symmetric matrix) inevitably would make "buffer" elements appear non-conformist when in fact they may be part of an interconnected pattern.

Jennifer K. McArthur

#14. If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it.

Lawrence Hargrave

#15. When you're there, I sleep lengthwise.
And when you're gone, I sleep diagonal in my bed.

Phish

#16. Her spine was the crease on a piece of paper, her bones no more than diagonal folds on a bit of origami

Lisa Mantchev

#17. My name is Felicia au ... " I feint a whip at her face. She brings her blade up, and Victra goes diagonal and impales her at the belly button. I finish her off with a neat decapitation. "Bye, Felicia." Victra spits, turning to the last Praetorian.

Pierce Brown

#18. At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.

Larry Wall

#19. 100 multiples of the Fine Structure Constant charges the King's Chamber volume based on a ratio of GPG's Base Diagonal Length Squared over the Speed of Light value.

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#20. And so when the scar wraith approached him, he took a diagonal step backward putting himself behind Squirrel like a king retreating behind a pawn.

Neal Shusterman

#21. He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.

Plato

#22. The purpose of life - if it may be said to have purpose - is not ease. It is to choose, and to act upon the choice. In that task, we are not measured by outcomes. We are measured only by daring and effort and resolve.

Stephen R. Donaldson

#23. I'm not God, don't intend to be and hope I never have that much power.

Mark Neumann

#24. Love is the strength of the spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. Even if you're drawing a cartoon and exaggerating, you want to capture something true about the person.

David Horsey

#26. There she is, lying in front of me, smoking a cigarette, thinking of something or someone else. And that's how she is stuck in my mind forever.
We are two explorers in the dark. Mapless and hopeless. Alone together.

Pete Wentz

#27. Never, never have I been loved as I love others!

Madame De Stael

#28. Milk does a body nothing, apparently.

Angela McPherson

#29. I enjoy the hunt much more than the 'good life' after the victory.

Carl Icahn