Quotes About Right Angles

#1. Right Angles Make Right Thinkers.
A slogan from Biocube Escape

Irene Groot

#2. Balance of light is the problem, not the amount. Balance between shadows and highlights determines where the emphasis goes in the picture ... make sure the major light in a picture falls at right angles to the camera.

Elliott Erwitt

#3. Conversations carry a momentum, there's a path they are expected to take, a cycle, a season, like the growing of crop. Take the rhythm of seasons away and farmers grow confused. Turn a conversation at right angles and men lose their surety.

Mark Lawrence

#4. We tend to like each other better when walking, sitting or standing side by side or at right angles from each other.

Kare Anderson

#5. I'm bored stiff by ballet. i can't bear those muscular white legs like unbaked plaited loaves, and I get quite hysterical every time one of the women sticks out her leg at right angles, and the man suddenly grabs it and walks round in a circle as though he were opening a tin.

Jilly Cooper

#6. The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.

Galen Rowell

#7. I should almost therefore put forward the proposal that the third hypothsis (angle sum of a triangle less than two right angles) holds on the surface of an imaginary sphere.

Johann Heinrich Lambert

#8. We talked across each other, our conversation at right angles, only meeting in the intersections of silence at story's end.

Harlan Ellison

#9. The problem with people like me who are emotionally unhinged is that we think with a tsunami of bad experiences flooding our brains. We think with insecurity, and raging pain, all triggered by what has come before. We see threats to us personally lurking around corners, curves, and right angles.

Cathy Lamb

#10. Accountants come in pairs these days. A middle-aged man in a dark suit and a sheen of perspiration, plus his younger accomplice, a woman who looks like her hobbies are arranging things in rows and making right angles.

Harry Bingham

#11. All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.

Martin Filler

#12. Imaginary time is a new dimension, at right angles to ordinary, real time.

Stephen Hawking

#13. Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.

Oscar Niemeyer

#14. The older lives like not to be stood in rows or at right angles.

W. H. Auden

#15. That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines makes the interior angles on the same side less than two right angles, the two straight lines, if produced indefinitely, meet on that side on which the angles are less than two right angles.

Euclid

#16. Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.

Bill Nye

#17. Almost everything looks the same at art fairs - very hygienic, very white, lots of right angles.

Casey Neistat

#18. Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional?

Prince Charles

#19. Who says I like right angles? These are not my laws, these are not my rules.

Ani DiFranco

#20. I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.

Laura Haddock

#21. 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

#22. I was made at right angles to the world
and I see it so. I can only see it so.

Elizabeth Bishop

#23. I came to love Fenway. It was a place that rejuvenated me after a road trip; the fans right on top of you, the nutty angles. And the Wall. That was my baby, the left-field wall, the Green Monster.

Carl Yastrzemski

#24. Failure isn't really an option because, as my grandmother used to say, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

Joy Bryant

#25. This, too, is for the better!

Michal Maoz

#26. I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#27. Remember this although timing in life is everything, memorable moments in history don't just happen! Do something ... stay positive!

Amy Dumas

#28. I just find that humans are predictable and stupid and animals and nature are a lot more magical to me. I'm just interested in magic, and not the silly humans.

Jason Lytle

#29. His view of the sky spun first left then right, as though the world were trying on strange new angles for his approval.

Scott Lynch

#30. For a long time I wanted to do the kind of work my dad did. He was going to ask his foreman at the mill to put me on after I graduated. So I worked at the mill for about six months. But I hated the work and knew from the first day I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life.

Raymond Carver

#31. On the street they moved with purpose, at different speeds but in straight lines, like a thousand bullets fired at a thousand different angles from a thousand different guns. All of these people moving in the way they thought right . . .

Jess Walter

#32. You're all angles and elbows right now." I gave him a sour look. "You certainly know how to make a girl feel sexy."
He grinned. "Well, how about: If anyone can make an oversize polyester uniform look hot, it's you.

Diana Rowland

#33. The problem with fairy tales is that most of them begin with tragedy.

Kelly Oram

#34. Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.

Gregory Orr

#35. It is tribute to how far we have come in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money to perform experiments whose results we can not predict.

Stephen Hawking

#36. As the French say, who doesn't like getting their butt sucked?

Chuck Palahniuk

#37. It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.

Davy Jones

#38. I put myself up for full professor, an act of such unprecedented and unmitigated arrogance that the committee approved it, thus effectively rooting me to the scene of the crime, too weighed down by tenure, rank, and salary to be marketable ever again.

Richard Russo

#39. I'm quite lucky in that at certain angles I look all right, and at others I don't look so good, which enables me to play some leading roles and some stranger, more 'character'-type parts. I wouldn't say I'm the conventional handsome Hollywood leading man.

Tom Riley

#40. The ceiling angled down right over me and I raised my arm and touched it with my fingertips. All children, I thought, should be permitted to sleep in such a room; the child loves nooks and odd angles and is frightened into nightmare by equidistance, by parallel planes which conceal nothing.

Don DeLillo

#41. Tears such as angels weep.

John Milton