In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines 74 lived twelve little girls in two straight lines. — Ludwig Bemelmans Copy Share Image
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
The so called "progress," "time marching on," is not a straight line, but a pendulum. — Zygmunt Bauman 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
The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating… — Friedensreich Hundertwasser Copy Share Image
From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I never wanted people to laugh at me. I never wanted the funny lines. I wanted the straight lines. — Demond Wilson Copy Share Image
The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points. — Theodor Adorno 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
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
Emotion doesn't travel in a straight line. Like water, our feelings trickle down through cracks and crevices, seeking out the little pockets… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“It is the same with mathematics, which would certainly not have arisen if it had been known from the beginning that in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don't do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the straight line.… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Broken lines do not know what they want. With their caprices they cut time up, abuse routes, slash the joyous flowers and… — Rene Crevel Copy Share Image
Definition of inertia: 'The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The official name of the project is 'Jewish Museum' but I have named it 'Between the Lines' because for me it is… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
When you are in the line of your duty, it is like standing in front of a line of posts, and every… — Heber J. Grant 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
The car is not a rabbit or a deer that jumps around in sweeping lines, but it is a man-made work of… — Fritz Todt Copy Share Image
Everything is grounded in mystery. Everything is swimming, and the stable does not exist. Life is a series of guesses, and there… — Benjamin De Casseres Copy Share Image
The past is an interpretation. The future is on illusion. The world does not more through time as if it were a… — Shams Tabrizi Copy Share Image
I do not believe in eternal progress, that we are growing on ever and ever in a straight line. It is too… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I walk the straight lines. I walk through the summer nights. I walk the silver rope of dreams. I walk through dawns… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
We grow up hearing so often that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points that we end up thinking… — Thomas W. Horton 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
I do not want to presuppose anything as known. I see in my explanation in section 1 the definition of the concepts… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
