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

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

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

— Anonymous

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

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

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

A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to…

— Dan Flavin

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 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 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