A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry? — George Iles Copy Share Image
Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“See how slippery the world is, Edgar,' he whispered. 'See how most folks spin their way across it without thought or direction.… — Elizabeth Garner Copy Share Image
Where everyone else sees a straight line, you see a maze, and when I'm done talking to you, the maze starts to… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
the walk liberating, I was released from forms, from the perpendiculars, straight lines, blocks, boxes, binds of thought into the hues, shadings,… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
My only phobia is untidiness. My hair has to be neatly kept; my shoes are always clean. Everything has to be in… — Norman Wisdom Copy Share Image
“It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate herself in human time and history.” — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“At thee seaside all is narrow horizontals, the world reduced to a few long straight lines pressed between earth and sky.” — John Banville Copy Share Image
So tired of this straight line, and everywhere you turn There's vultures and thieves at your back The storm keeps on twisting,… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
“Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in… — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
My thoughts are messy, my emotions are messy, my body goes in and out at will. The raised white scars on my… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
“While many Greeks (although not Thucydides) thought that history moved in circles, repeating itself infinitely, the Jewish idea that each event was… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
“The Labyrinth, a walled garden where humans tortured plants and flowers into growing in straight lines and sharp corners so unnatural that… — Jon Evans Copy Share Image
“Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
It is possible in theory and I think true in practice that centralization could have been the optimal solution at the beginning… — Steven Pearlstein Copy Share Image
“In addition to his instinct for discerning patterns across disciplines, Leonardo honed two other traits that aided his scientific pursuits: an omnivorous… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“In this it is similar to the problem of the solar system. By a complex, confusing, and almost contradictory mathematical process, by… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it's the alien equivalent of a discarded tomato can. Does a beetle know why it can enter the can only from… — Algis Budrys Copy Share Image
“I’m really enjoying my solitude after feeling trapped by my family, friends and boyfriend. Just then I feel like making a resolution.… — Anjali Kirpalani Copy Share Image
“As for the doctor's mind, though intelligent and certainly well-meaning, it was a jumble of intellectual artifacts even more confusing than all… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans; we know very well how far off we live. 'Neither by land nor by sea… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
...youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“You were just in South Dakota a couple of weeks ago,” he pointed out. “Why didn’t you get it then?” “It wasn’t… — Diana Palmer Copy Share Image
“The way to success is not a straight line segment. It's a dotted line with little packs of failure filling the potholes… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
If you watch 'SNL,' any time there's this thing with everyone singing, I'm, like, the one person who just has a straight… — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
Both my parents and sister are visual artists. That skipped me over completely. I can't draw a straight line. I've found other… — Noah Reid Copy Share Image
It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
One of the jobs of a writer is to add nuance and ambiguity to that straight line that people often draw to… — John Green Copy Share Image
The straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always… — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
We know that the end of any conflict is always messy. It's never a linear path when you've been at war for… — Morgan Ortagus Copy Share Image
“She watches my hand, riveted. I keep my lips in a straight line, but I want to grin at her obvious hand… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
Common to the two geometries is only the general property of one-to-one correspondence, and the rule that this correspondence determines straight lines… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him--he who had never in… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an E.C.G. means we… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“Love is the law of our condition, without which we can no more render justice than a man can keep a straight… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
