Quotes About Triangles

#1. I've been in a few love triangles. I've been in a love quadrilateral.

Beau Mirchoff

#2. you will be attacked by evil and fast triangles. Domination:

Ben Tapp

#3. The shape she loved was a triangle. Always black. Mauma put black triangles on about every quilt she sewed.

Sue Monk Kidd

#4. It's kind of amazing how popular 'Grey's Anatomy' is. What other show can boast such an annoyingly sincere cast of doctors, sniveling through such perfunctory love triangles?

Rob Sheffield

#5. On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.

Caity Lotz

#6. ... God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and confusing, the pattern is impossible to see, the squares and diamonds and triangles don't fit well together anymore, it's all become meaningless. So He has abandoned it.

Rohinton Mistry

#7. Coins from half a hundred distant cities, silver and gold, copper and bronze, square coins and round coins, triangles and rings and bits of bone

George R R Martin

#8. And we must invent dynamic designs to go with them and express them in equally dynamic shapes: triangles, cones, spirals, ellipses, circles, etc.

Giacomo Balla

#9. The stars are the apexes of what triangles!

Henry David Thoreau

#10. Fire, air, earth, and water are bodies and therefore solids, and solids are contained in planes, and plane rectilinear figures are made up of triangles.

Plato

#11. You can't take the Razorback," he said to the tiny red triangles. "We are gone and gone and gone.

James S.A. Corey

#12. Will our life not be a tunnel between two vague clarities? Or will it not be a clarity between two dark triangles?

Pablo Neruda

#13. If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.

Baron De Montesquieu

#14. I peered around the corner into the main recovery ward. All I could see were surgeons. Surgeons filling out those incessant forms. Surgeons bringing cups of tea and little sandwich triangles to patients. Surgeons laying in a lethargic stupor, recovering from eye surgery.

Lauren Pearce

#15. I guess, like some guy once said, if triangles invented a god, the chances are high it would have three sides.

Michael Marshall Smith

#16. She'd heard of love triangles before, but a love square?

Caragh M. O'Brien

#17. She just kept staring at her," she lamented. "Like I wasn't even there."
... "The trouble with lesbian love triangles is you can't tell which 'she' and which 'her' we're talking about.

Molly Ringle

#18. I love math and was a math teacher for many years, so it was fun for me to write several math books, including 'Fraction Fun,' 'Calculator Riddles,' and 'Shape Up!' 'Fun with Triangles and Other Polygons.'

David A. Adler

#19. I thought of all the summer evenings I'd spent sitting in the chairs under the trees beside the trailer, reading books that helped me escape Creek View, at least for a little while. Magical kingdoms, Russian love triangles, and the March sisters couldn't have been further away from the trailer park.

Heather Demetrios

#20. There were little triangles of coconut custard pie on a graham cracker crust for dessert, the best and sweetest thing ...

Joe Hill

#21. The houses looked like something a child might draw, a row of shaky squares with triangles on top. Add a door, add two windows. Think of putting a tree in the front yard, and then decide against it because branches aren't worth the trouble.

David Sedaris

#22. He talks softly, patiently, as I sit on the window ledge and watch boats with colorful triangles for sails scratch the ocean.

Lauren DeStefano

#23. The triangle pointing downward is a female symbol corresponding to the yoni and the upward pointing triangle is the male, the lingam ... When the two triangles are interlaced, it represents the union of the active and passive forces in nature; it represents the male and female elements.

Albert Mackey

#24. The beams and bridges cut the light on the ground into little triangles and the rails run round

Suzanne Vega

#25. It was about as close as you could get to the platonic ideal of a ham, if Plato had spent more time discussing hams and less time mucking about with triangles.

Gideon Defoe

#26. When it comes to love triangles and duels to the death, you should always cheat. - Fairy Werewolf vs. Zombie Vampire

Charlie Jane Anders

#27. She was wearing a dark-red swimsuit consisting of two small triangles up above and a mere suggestion of something down below. If she took everything off, Dill thought, she would look a lot less naked.

Ross Thomas

#28. I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.

Aimee Bender

#29. I am sure that if triangles ever were loved, they were loved for being triangular.

G.K. Chesterton

#30. You could probably prove, by judicious use of logarithms and congruent triangles, that real life is a lot more like soap opera than most people will admit.

Molly Ivins

#31. Placing your stick at the end of the shadow of the pyramid, you made by the sun's rays two triangles, and so proved that the pyramid [height] was to the stick [height] as the shadow of the pyramid to the shadow of the stick.

Thales

#32. I smiled. Mom laughed, shaking her head. "That's the punchline? Why is that even funny?" "It's the Pythagorean theorem," said Lauren. "It's a math formula for . . . something." "Right triangles," I said, and looked pointedly at Margaret. "I told you I'd already done geometry.

Dan Wells

#33. I've been in so many love triangles on TV and in real life.

Rachel Bilson

#34. Used to be you could see the orange glow of the hi-intensity arc-sodiums from North Conway, but no more. Now there's just the White Mountains, looking like dark triangles of crepe paper cut out by a child, and the pointless

Stephen King

#35. Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's too hard? We seem to feel that they are capable of making arguments and coming to their own conclusions about Napoleon. Why not about triangles?

Paul Lockhart

#36. I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.

Jeff Foxworthy

#37. So I couldn't talk about the color of three, or whether triangles tasted better than circles, or how playing Bach on my keyboard made fireworks go off in my head, because people would think I was crazy.

R. J. Anderson

#38. In right-angled triangles the square on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares on the sides containing the right angle.

Euclid

#39. What's the matter?" said the old man. "Can't you make up your mind what kind you want?"
The kid laughed. "I want them all." He threw his hands out. "I'm learning everything!"
He opened one of the books. "Look ... geometry ... triangles ...

Jerry Spinelli

#40. I'd been doing projects outdoors for the public. I made pigeons eat geometry by putting bread out in rhomboids and triangles. I don't know if this activity made sense, but the work was available.

Jenny Holzer

#41. Order streamed from Noah in blue triangles and as the pure fury of his classifications rose around him, engulfing his life, they came to be called waves by others, who drowned, a world of them.

Anne Carson

#42. Love triangles very rarely stay quiet for very long.

Stephen Amell

#43. Most of these love triangles are wrecktangles.

Jacob Braude

#44. The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment!

Henry David Thoreau

#45. A planar geometrical figure with more than three vertices can be decomposed into a set of triangles, and it can be reconstructed from a set of triangles.

Vladimir Prelog

#46. In life you have to avoid three geometric figures - vicious circles, love triangles and square minds

Mario Benedetti

#47. Complication comes in threes: love triangles, third wheels, the trinity.

Alexandra Oliva

#48. Yep, I have to admit that isosceles triangles make me feel hormonal.

Sherman Alexie

#49. I got a random tattoo the other day. It's a red triangle, which makes everyone think I'm arty, which I'm not. I used to draw red triangles all the time. It must mean something - maybe I don't know it yet. But I'll figure it out.

Ellie Goulding

#50. There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.

Baron De Montesquieu

#51. If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu

#52. There's a pizza place near where I live that sells only slices. In the back, you can see a guy tossing a triangle in the air.

Steven Wright

#53. Fate forced me to become a two-man woman. But there was no effing way I could be a four-man woman.
Even metaphysics couldn't keep that from being whorey.

Sierra Dean

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. I feel dominant - I feel the triangle offense utilizes all my skills.

Amar'e Stoudemire

#57. In real life a right-angled triangle is very unlikely to have a square on its hypotenuse.

H. F. Ellis

#58. There's hardly anywhere in literature where you don't find a triangle.

Leonard Michaels

#59. Almost any group of three is going to form a triangle, with two points closer to one another.

Amy Dickinson

#60. I've decided to get into shape, and the shape I've selected is a triangle.

Howie Mandel

#61. Hayabusa ... it's one of the fastest production motorcycles in the world. Believe me when I say you'll never ride on another motorcycle after you feel the power this baby has. It is unlike anything you'll ever feel between your legs.

Nicole Gulla

#62. I convinced him his luggage had gone to that big Bermuda Triangle in the sky.

Erma Bombeck

#63. Luckily you cannot get to the Golden Triangle in a bus. You can only access it on your own two feet!

Arthur Frommer

#64. We were walking that tightrope between friends and something more ...

Melissa Aragon

#65. Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the selves of girls go down in droves.

Mary Pipher

#66. He's really jealous, Ybon said rather weakly. Just have him meet me, Oscar said. I make all boyfriends feel better about themselves.

Junot Diaz

#67. That's it ... I'm completely giving up on boys and concentrating on staying alive.

Samantha Young

#68. You have to get buy-in as a leader, instead of demanding adherence to management. Phil Jackson sought Michael Jordan's support before installing the triangle offense.

Chris Lytle

#69. TED-The Empowerment Dynamic-counteracts the poison of DDT, the Dreaded Dram Triangle. TED is the antidote for DDT.

David Emerald Womeldorff

#70. Matteo lived inside her like a memory that paradoxically stopped the pain and which she could never get enough of ... because there was, and never would be, anything that was like him. Wherever she went, whatever she did, he was the only thing she truly loved, and which she sadly no longer had.

Llarjme

#71. Tell me you do not feel as I do and I will leave you and you may be with another.

Tamara Rose Blodgett

#72. What I don't like about Guinevere is the fact that she can't control her passions and urges. She gets herself into quite a love triangle, and quite a web. Personally, I find that very difficult to relate to. But, it wouldn't be interesting, if she did everything right.

Tamsin Egerton

#73. I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular; and thus would every one ascribe his own attributes to God.

Baruch Spinoza

#74. It follows at once from the last proposition that the centre of gravity of any triangle is at the intersection of the lines drawn from any two angles to the middle points of the opposite
sides respectively.

Archimedes

#75. Thank you to my wonderful actors, the triangle of man-love which is Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and me.

Tom Hooper

#76. How lucky am I that a beautiful girl like you spills a drink on me?
I blushed. Shit! I couldn't take my eyes off him, he was strikingly handsome.

Nicole Gulla

#77. When I was twelve, someone stole all those dreams of normal from me." ~ Blake

Ashley Poch

#78. In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself!

Erica Jong