Vertical Quotes

85 quotes by 78 authors

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
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
Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But… — Margaret Atwood
There are times when we suffer innocently at other peopleâ€™s hands. When that occurs, we are victims of injustice. But that injustice happens on a… — R C Sproul
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
I won't consider getting horizontal with someone I can barely tolerate when we're vertical. — Nora Roberts
The vertical lines that run down his forearms are the most disturbing, thick and jagged as if someone took a razor to his skin. I… — Jessica Sorensen
The dance, just as the performance of the actor, is kinesthetic art, art of the muscle sense. The awareness of tension and relaxation within his… — Rudolf Arnheim
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... so that never again can… — Wallace Stegner
But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty of the eye… — Thomas Jefferson
The more you densify a city, the more congestion will increase, however technology changes... cities so packed that they will no longer function... vertical sprawl. — Leon Krier
Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture. — Leon Krier
In my case, vertical food was less about standing things up than layering things: more an attempt to gain texture by weaving things together. — Charlie Trotter
Someone once told me that being in the closet is like living in a vertical casket. Perfect description. — Jane Velez-Mitchell
New York is vertical - all skyscrapers. — Tony Scott
As we begin to have landings on the moon, we can alternate those with vertical launch of similar crew modules on similar launch vehicles for… — Buzz Aldrin
I vertically center things in tables a lot, and the fact that there is no way to control vertical positioning in divs affects the way… — Mike Davidson
Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary structures have a built-in safety factor for the vertical component;… — Charles Francis Richter
When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes… — Josef Albers
The great seats of power tend to be wide and open, not vertical and soaring. Red Square, Tiananmen Square, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin -… — Gary Ross

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