Best Diagonal Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The streets of L.A. undulate over short hills as though a finger is poking the landscape from underneath ... laid over this crosshatch are streets meandering on the diagonal creating a multitude of ways to get from one place to another by traveling along the hypotenuse. These are the avenues of the tryst which enable Acting Student A to travel the eighteen miles across town to Acting Student B's garage apartment in nine minutes flat after a hot-blooded phone call at midnight.”

Way Acting Streets Minutes Students Creating Towns Hot Fingers Phones Miles Nine Hills Landscape Flats Los Angeles Apartment Multitudes Midnight Avenues Eighteen Phone Calls Garage Diagonal

Author:Steve Martin

“At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.”

Language Levels Perl Diagonal

Author:Larry Wall

“The attempt to apply rational arithmetic to a problem in geometry resulted in the first crisis in the history of mathematics. The two relatively simple problems -- the determination of the diagonal of a square and that of the circumference of a circle -- revealed the existence of new mathematical beings for which no place could be found within the rational domain.”

Firsts Two Problem Found Simple Existence Determination Mathematics Crisis Circles Rational Mathematical Squares Domain Geometry Arithmetic Diagonal

Author:David van Dantzig

“The diagonal gives a three-dimensional feeling to dancers that cannot be achieved when they are only front and back. On the diagonal, more movement is automatically visible.”

Giving Feelings Three Fronts Movement Visible Dancer Diagonal

Author:Lucinda Childs

“If the simple positions of ballet are demonstrated straight on, they seem quite dull and lifeless, but when put on a diagonal, they begin to take on all kinds of possibilities.”

Ifs Kind Seems Simple Possibility Position All Kinds Dull Ballet Lifeless Diagonal

Author:Lucinda Childs

“I have heterochromia, meaning that one eye has two split colours. It's a diagonal cut in half. It's amazing how many people don't know that until they meet me and we talk long enough for them to see it.”

People Knows Long Two Enough Eye Half Cutting Colour Splits Diagonal

Author:Dan Payne

“I hadn't, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my cheeks. They seemed touching, and rather spectacular, and I thought I would carry them around with me, like the relic of a dead lover, till they wore off of their own accord.”

Two Moments Lasts Felt Lines Blood Lovers Touching Cheeks Spectacular Accord Washing Relics Diagonal

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.”

People Humans Fall Lost Half Balance Train Fallen Zone Diagonal

Book:Cloud Atlas: A Novel

Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel

“God is in the mountains. Impassive, immovable, jagged giants, separating the celestial from the terrestrial with eternal diagonal certainty. As if silently monitoring the beating heart of the creator from the universe's perfect birth. Stood in the thin air and the awe, one inhales God, involuntarily acknowledging that we are but fragments of a whole, a higher thing. The mountains remind me of my place, as a servant to truth and wonder. Yes, God is in the mountains. Perhaps the pulpit too and even in the piety of an atheist's sigh. I don't know; but I feel him in the mountains.”

“There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.”

Thinking Humans War Remember White Boys Sacrifice Human Nature Crosses Graves Forests France Horizon Buried Antiwar Graveyard Orchard D Day Diagonal

Book:Animal Dreams: A Novel

Source: Animal Dreams: A Novel

“Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.”

Humans Human Nature D Day Diagonal

Book:Animal Dreams: A Novel

Source: Animal Dreams: A Novel

“He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.”

Men Facts Names Sides Mathematics Math Ignorant Mathematical Squares Plato Unworthy Numbers And Math Diagonal

Author:Plato

“My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.”

World Use Lines Color Areas Window Canvas Dots Diagonal

Book:Lichtenstein in process

Source: Lichtenstein in process

“A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance.”

Whole Light Sides Pieces Wall Edges Separation Instance Triangles Diagonal

Author:Dan Flavin

“I review all I know, but can synthesize no meaning. When I doze, the Fact, the certain accomplished calamity, wakes me roughly like a brutal nurse. I see it crouching inflexibly in a corner of the ceiling. It comes down in geometrical diagonal like lightning.It says, I remain, I AM, I shall never cease to be: your memory will grow a deathly glaze: you will forget, you will fade out, but I cannot be undone.Thus every quarter hour it puts the taste of death in my mouth, and shows me, but not gently, how I go whoring after oblivion.”

“The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.”

Life Life Is Desire Lines Duty Ragged Diagonal

Author:William Rounseville Alger