Horizontal Quote by David Foster Wallace

Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

It is in love with its limitless horizontality, as New York may be with its verticality.

— Jean Baudrillard

What better way to actually deal with L.A. than to get above it and engage with the horizontality and scale of the basin itself?

— Michael Light

Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence.

— Louise Bourgeois

“I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.”

— David Foster Wallace

I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a…

— Dan Brown

The print is devised so that I can cut the dresses on the bias, so they work around the body. It's not like a…

— John Galliano

“Payne sought clarification. “Vertical or horizontal?” “Horizontal, of course.” “Sorry but I can’t help you.” “Will you pipe down for a minute? Naturally she…

— Ed Lynskey

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…

— Charles Francis Richter

A horizontal or vertical line lacks energy, compared with one that deviates from either. The difference between these graphic expressions is the difference between…

— Walter J. Phillips

Whenever I got a new studio I made the largest possible painting, and since the ceiling was low, the painting became horizontal. As I…

— James Rosenquist

Charity, vertical, humiliates. Solidarity, horizontal, helps.

— Eduardo Galeano