Verticality Quotes

#1. Why endure verticality when you can be horizontal?

Tibor Fischer

#2. It is in love with its limitless horizontality, as New York may be with its verticality.

Jean Baudrillard

#3. But who can resist the seductions of elevators these days, those stepping stones to Heaven, which make relentless verticality so alluring?

Colson Whitehead

#4. Mountaineers know that all mountains are in a constant state of collapse - their verticality being inescapably and inevitably worn down every moment by wind, water, weather, and gravity - but

Dan Simmons

#5. . . . I spent much of my youth wondering about the verticality of my own biological progenitors. So that when I reached the age of majority, I set out to discover who they were, only to uncover a shameful parade of bastards, miscreants, and foolhardy eccentrics

Gary Anderson

#6. All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between horizontality and verticality, circularlity, or a composite of them. For me, I suppose, that change is the only constant.

Lee Krasner

#7. Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence.

Louise Bourgeois

#8. All church activities that dilute, diminish, or detract from worship destroy Verticality, deny the priority of doxology, and forfeit what Vertical Church is all about - glory.

James MacDonald

#9. The fundamental condition of man is his verticality.

Laura Fraser

#10. Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#11. Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

B.C. Forbes

#12. Don't let them say you ain't beautiful. They can all get fu#ked just stay true to you.

Eminem

#13. Look around," Jacob said. "You're right, the shadows are getting longer, but, look at the light too. Look at what's happening to the light. Shadows are dark, always dark, even when they leak out across the grass into the street. But what's happened to the light?

Schuy R. Weishaar

#14. For us, the best time is always yesterday.

Tatyana Tolstaya

#15. Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose. Each attribute is good in its own season.

Charlotte Bronte

#16. The truth is that even if resentment is triggered by an external object, it is not located anywhere else but in our mind.

Matthieu Ricard

#17. You know what America is-they're all like spoiled children. Anything goes, isn't that what they say?

Soheir Khashoggi

#18. Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.

Robert Collier

#19. The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.

Len Deighton

#20. Sometimes," he said, "the right thing doesn't feel right at all. Sometimes it feels spectacularly fucking lousy.

Kathleen Peacock

#21. The only thing we have in this world that is utterly and intrinsically ours is our integrity.

Mira Grant