Bending Quote by William Whewell

“And so no force however great can stretch a cord however fine into a horizontal line that shall be absolutely straight.”

— William Whewell

My affection for CinemaScope initially was my affection for the horizontal line as I learned it from having been apprenticed to an architect who…

— Nicholas Ray

We live in an age where quantity is seen as preferable to quality, and many people tend to work in a horizontal line: next,…

— Simon McBurney

A vertical line is dignity. The horizontal line is peaceful. The obtuse angle is action. That's universal, it is primary.

— Janet Collins

“pencil the exact middle of the head’s height. Place a horizontal line there; this should be located below the eyebrows' line.  ”

— Vladimir London

Vertical and horizontal lines are the expression of two opposing forces; they exist everywhere and dominate everything; their reciprocal action constitutes 'life'. I recognized…

— Piet Mondrian

But I am I now; and so many other millions are so irretrievably their own special variety of 'I' that I can hardly bear…

— Sylvia Plath

It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony…

— Piet Mondrian

I have gained very great inspiration from the Cornish land- and seascape, the horizontal line of the sea and the quality of light and…

— Barbara Hepworth

When the elements are arranged in vertical columns according to increasing atomic weight, so that the horizontal lines contain analogous elements again according to…

— Dmitri Mendeleev

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

— Patti Smith

My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.

— Richard Powers