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“I seldom think when I take a picture. My eyes and fingers react - click. But first, it's most important to decide on the angle at which your photograph is to be taken.”

Thinking Firsts Important Eye Taken Photography Fingers Photographer Photograph Angle Clicks

Author:Alfred Eisenstaedt

“Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.”

Men Hard Lines Angle Flexible

Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.”

Knows Dream Light Situation Mathematics Privilege Flying Impulse Recalls Angle Curves

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them.”

Years Sound Audience Ears Experiments Angle Boston Symphony Measurement Arriving Different Angles Mit Incidence

Author:Amar Bose

“But rather that we should lose our sense that neither can become the other, that the traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lense and the Cinerama screen tend to narrow it.”

Form Novel Areas Wide Screens Traditional Cinema Angle Lenses

Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and several times, from various angles) by those among the characters on whom they will have had any effect. I would like those events, in the account they will make of them, to appear slightly distorted; a kind of interest stems, for the reader, from the simple fact that he should need to restore. The story requires his collaboration in order to properly take shape.”

Needs Should Kind Character Facts Stories Order Reading Interest Simple Effects Events Reader Shapes Accounts Various Collaboration Stem Angle

Author:Andre Gide

“I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.”

Doors Coaches Noise Contemplation Neglect Angle Whining

Author:John Donne

“Are the atoms of the dextroacid (tartaric) grouped in the spirals of a right-hand helix or situated at the angles of an irregular tetrahedron, or arranged in such or such particular unsymmetrical fashion? We are unable to reply to these questions. But there can be no reason for doubting that the grouping of the atoms has an unsymmetrical arrangement with a non-superimposable image. It is not less certain that the atoms of the laevo-acid realize precisely an unsymmetrical arrangement of the inverse of the above.”

Reason Hands Certain Realizing Doubt Fashion Particular No Reason Atoms Arrangements Angle Acid Spirals Inverse

Author:Louis Pasteur

“When there is change, it must not alter the content of what propaganda is driving at, but in the end must always say the same thing. For instance, a slogan must be presented from different angles, but the end of all remarks must always and immutably be the slogan itself. Only in this way can the propaganda have a unified and complete effect.”

Way Different Ends Effects Media Driving Instance Propaganda Angle Remarks Slogans Unified Different Angles

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“San Francisco is one of my favourite cities in the world...I would probably rank it at the top or near the top. It's small but photogenic and has layers...You never have problems finding great angles that people have never done.”

People World Done Problem Cities Findings Favourite Layers Angle San Francisco Cities In The World Photogenic Favourite City

Author:Ang Lee

“There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously.”

Way Made Moments Beautiful Felt Perfect Struggle Fields Window Paint Village Angle Perfect Moments

Author:Nicolas Roeg

“I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing.”

Different Whole Today Remember Used Party Rap Rapper Angle Boast Bragging Rap Music Different Angles

Author:Flavor Flav

“As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?”

Play Actors Fun Interesting Morning Worry Hair Angle Nerd

Author:Nicholas Brendon

“Facebook's the real deal. Nobody can buy Facebook now. Everybody has taken an angle at it. But Facebook may be the place that organizes everybody's personal information. It's got a very good chance of being that.”

May Real Chance Deals Taken Information Very Good Organize Angle Good Chance Personal Information

Author:Barry Diller

“See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million different angles and they're all valid. But I think rock might be a world issue.”

Thinking World Different Might Fun Millions Issues Rocks Rock N Roll Angle Different Angles World Issues

Author:Evan Dando

“I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.”

Years Different Law Teach Ten Lawyer Angle Different Angles

Author:Alex Flinn

“I worked on 'Sarah Connor' even longer than 'Firefly.' And I always remembered how generous everyone was to me when I didn't know what to do, and I didn't know the rules, and I didn't know camera angles, and I didn't know lighting.”

Knows Cameras Remembered Generous Angle Lighting Firefly Camera Angles

Author:Summer Glau

“Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it's not really cinema verite, because you aren't actually there.”

States Would Be Film Hours Building Eight Cinema Empires Realism Angle Subjective Warhol Empire State Building Empire State

Author:Crispin Glover

“For me, an aerial picture is no different than a close-up portrait. It's a question of framing and angle. Helicopters are great for that. But I've also used planes. Of course, I always have a harness.”

Different Used Courses Planes Portraits Angle Harness Helicopters Framing

Author:Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“For my money, if I'm playing anything then it has to have some sharp angles on it. It's got to have some edges that you can cut yourself on, otherwise it's boring.”

Ifs Cutting Edges Boring Angle

Author:Grant Bowler

“Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.”

Different Numbers Very Good Traditional Poetry Is Angle Iranian Different Angles

Author:Asghar Farhadi

“In right-angled triangles the square on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares on the sides containing the right angle.”

Science Sides Equal Squares Angle Geometry Containing Triangles

Book:Elements of Geometry, Containing the First Six Books of Euclid

Source: Elements of Geometry, Containing the First Six Books of Euclid

“It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.”

Force Results Sea Effects Wind Areas Crosses Tasks Weight Surface Resistance Giants Angle Crops Ratios

Author:Lawrence Hargrave

“Who says I like right angles? These are not my laws, these are not my rules.”

Philosophy Law Angle

Author:Ani DiFranco

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