Rectangular Quotes

#1. I don't like candy bars. I eat the big rectangular bars. You know - anything between 85 and 50 percent cocoa.

Andrew Luck

#2. Short blonde hair, big rectangular forehead, like Frankenstein made a second monster, and that monster loved death metal and Twinkies.

Scott Kelly

#3. He left the unspoken question hanging in the air. How did one annoy a two- kilometre-long black rectangular slab? And just what form would its disapproval take

Arthur C. Clarke

#4. The walls shrugged themselves loose from their foundations and slid towards the centre of the room, as if attracted by the struggle. The ceiling, a massive rectangular slab of concrete furrowed with fluorescent white, also shuddered loose and loomed down on her.

Michel Faber

#5. The Ark of the Covenant is a Golden Rectangle because its rectangular shape is in the proportions of the Golden Ratio.

Donald Frazer

#6. Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to them, or you are moved to the marrow by walls that climb and branch, and break into a inflorescence of pinnacles.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#7. Give me a night by the fire, with a book in my hand, not that flickering rectangular son of a bitch that sits screaming in every living room in the land.

Mark Helprin

#8. Pure photography is a system of picture-making that describes more or less faithfully what might be seen through a rectangular frame from a particular vantage point at a given moment.

John Szarkowski

#9. Neat little rectangular arrangements of suffering. His

Jessica D. Lovett

#10. rectangular slab of mincemeat that everyone, including the servers, referred to as baked turd.

Robert Muchamore

#11. Was it not I who populated with them all these pages - just recently no more than white rectangular deserts? Without me, would they ever be seen by those whom I shall lead behind me along the narrow paths of lines?

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#12. It is a building designed by committee: all they have been able to agree on is that it should be rectangular, have windows, and not fall over.

Max Barry

#13. Asexual, aseasonal, rectangular, slick palette of blacks, touches of pure grays and intense dark blues.

Rad Hourani

#14. Bee there Orr Bee A Rectangular Thyng

Terry Pratchett

#15. Art museums are little more than big buildings where rectangular old men, hung on the walls by their backs, wait for young people to come stand in front of them.

Adam Ehrlich Sachs

#16. Although the circle dance is known throughout the entire world, the front dance is limited to the cultures of which the rectangular hut is a part.

Curt Sachs

#17. The unpainted walls of the long rectangular room were soaked with the smell of greasy chicken and warm, headless beer. The brown and pink faces floated above the trails of used cigarette smoke like bodiless carnival balloons.

Gloria Naylor

#18. I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.

Emily Procter

#19. The major concern ... was to create a monument which would have lasting significance and would be a landmark of our time ... Neither an obelisk nor a rectangular box nor a dome seemed right on this site or for this purpose. But here, at the edge of the Mississippi River, a great arch did seem right.

Eero Saarinen

#20. The revolutionaries failed to institute the novel forms of social and political organization they hankered after; Workers would not accept a ten-day week, or state-appointed priests, or rectangular departements, or the cult of the Supreme Being.

Alan Ryan

#21. Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.

Arnold J. Toynbee

#22. And some cease feeling
Even themselves or for themselves.
Dullness best solves
The tease and doubt of shelling

Wilfred Owen

#23. Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

G.K. Chesterton

#24. Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.

Scott Cook

#25. Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.

Theodore Martin

#26. Challenge yourself to find the good and beautiful thing inside of everyone. It's there. It's your job to find it. Not their job to show you.

Mark Manson

#27. I've been very lucky in my life to have some great teachers.

Brian Lindstrom

#28. Focusing on an enlightened teacher is a doorway. It is not a person. We are focusing on the light that passes through them. We are moving through them into the planes of light and eventually to nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

#29. Open your hearts to the Lord. The Lord is waiting for you and the Church will welcome you if your willingness to serve good is as clear and public as your choice to serve evil was.

Pope Francis

#30. When men fear work or fear righteous war, when women fear motherhood, they tremble on the brink of doom; and well it is that they should vanish from the earth, where they are fit subjects for the scorn of all men and women who are themselves strong and brave and high-minded.

Theodore Roosevelt

#31. The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?

Eric Idle

#32. There are only four things in life that matter. The first is happiness and I'll sell you the other three for a dollar.

Sam Walton