A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the…

God is in the mountains. Impassive, immovable, jagged giants, separating the celestial from the terrestrial with eternal diagonal certainty. As if silently monitoring the…

— Russell Brand

I have heterochromia, meaning that one eye has two split colours. It's a diagonal cut in half. It's amazing how many people don't know…

— Dan Payne

The diagonal gives a three-dimensional feeling to dancers that cannot be achieved when they are only front and back. On the diagonal, more movement…

— Lucinda Childs

I review all I know, but can synthesize no meaning. When I doze, the Fact, the certain accomplished calamity, wakes me roughly like a…

— Elizabeth Smart

I hadn't, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my cheeks. They seemed touching,…

— Sylvia Plath

He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its…

— Plato

At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.

— Larry Wall

Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.

— Barbara Kingsolver

There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal…

— David Mitchell

If the simple positions of ballet are demonstrated straight on, they seem quite dull and lifeless, but when put on a diagonal, they begin…

— Lucinda Childs

My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on…

— Roy Lichtenstein

The attempt to apply rational arithmetic to a problem in geometry resulted in the first crisis in the history of mathematics. The two relatively…

— David van Dantzig

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

— Anonymous

The streets of L.A. undulate over short hills as though a finger is poking the landscape from underneath ... laid over this crosshatch are…

— Steve Martin