Horizontal Quotes
69 quotes by 63 authors
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Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the same form. We use different tools, but we get the job…
— Frank Miller
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The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes.
— Tom Robbins
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New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable - but certainly…
— Jerry Saltz
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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending…
— William Whewell
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There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above.
— Fay Wray
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Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of…
— Tullian Tchividjian
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I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It…
— Eduardo Galeano
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I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth…
— Rebecca Solnit
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Living is a horizontal fall.
— Jean Cocteau
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In this world, time has three dimensions, like space. Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal,…
— Alan Lightman
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What was up with class today? It was watered-down porn. He practically had you and Patch on top of your lab table, horizontal, minus your…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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Do you play football?' Brandon asks. 'No.' 'Baseball?' 'Nope.' Brandon is on a roll and won't stop until he's found the answer he's looking for.…
— Simone Elkeles
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He is only happy when he can maintain himself - mentally and spiritually - at the intersection between a vertical line and horizontal one, in…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Daddy, What's the horizontal tango?
— Simone Elkeles
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There are times when we suffer innocently at other people’s hands. When that occurs, we are victims of injustice. But that injustice happens on a…
— R C Sproul
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But I am I now; and so many other millions are so irretrievably their own special variety of 'I' that I can hardly bear to…
— Sylvia Plath
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Jack was mid-jump when I burst into my room. I snatched his ankle,flipping him horizontal.He crashed down hard to my bed and rolled off onto…
— Kiersten White
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I won't consider getting horizontal with someone I can barely tolerate when we're vertical.
— Nora Roberts
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Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.
— Leon Krier
Who Wrote These Horizontal Quotes
63 authors contributed a total of 69 Horizontal Quotes, led by these top contributors: