Rectilinear Quotes

#1. The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.

Isaac Newton

#2. His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever no straight unbroken line, for the rectilinear belongs only to Geometry and not to Nature and Life.

Hermann Hesse

#3. The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.

Iain McGilchrist

#4. 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

#5. There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

Oscar Niemeyer

#6. RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.

Ambrose Bierce

#7. And this is a table ma'am. What in essence it consists of is a horizontal rectilinear plane surface maintained by four vertical columnar supports, which we call legs. The tables in this laboratory, ma'am, are as advanced in design as one will find anywhere in the world.

Michael Frayn

#8. Stray bits of Lego edged fitfully about among lower strata, like bright rectilinear beetles.

William Gibson

#9. I gasp for air if I don't get to breathe Italian air once a year.

Danny Meyer

#10. When you have mountains in the distance or even hills, you have space.

Robert M. Pirsig

#11. No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me.

Franz Grillparzer

#12. The problem sincere Christians have with God often comes down to a wrong understanding of what this life is meant to provide.

Larry Crabb

#13. Being in the same scenes as Maggie Smith and Shirley MacLaine is something I will never forget.

Michelle Dockery

#14. The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.

Isaac Brock

#15. He is not angry now; knives are not angry. He is not tearful now; knives are not tearful. He is simply sharp and keen and inevitable.

Clive Barker

#16. Smile as often as possible and love as much as you can In the end...the heart felt memories you leave behind is all that really counts!

Timothy Pina

#17. Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

Lord Chesterfield

#18. Follow the Lord at all times, at every passage He will be there with you, and will show you how to love your neighbour.

George Calleja