Top Squares Quotes Collection

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Image of Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.
- Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Collection: Squares
Image of Jessie Belle Rittenhouse
... fain would I turn back the clock and devote to French or some other language the hours I spent upon algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, of which not one principle remains with me. Stay! There is one theorem painfully drummed into my head which seems to have inhabited some corner of my brain since that early time: "The square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides!" There it sticks, but what of it, ye gods, what of it?
- Jessie Belle Rittenhouse
Collection: Squares
Image of Randall Terry
If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.
- Randall Terry
Collection: Squares
Image of Jeanne DuPrau
Mrs. Murdo, walkind even more briskly to keep her spirits up, was crossing Harken Square when something fell to the pavement just in front of her with a terrific thump. How extraordinary, she thought, bending to pick it up. It was sort of a bundle. She began to untie it.
- Jeanne DuPrau
Collection: Squares
Image of Marlon Brando
We don't go anywhere. Going somewhere is for squares. We just go!
- Marlon Brando
Collection: Squares
Image of Cressida Cowell
But then I have always been somewhat of a square peg in a round hole.
- Cressida Cowell
Collection: Squares
Image of Rachel Caine
Excuse me? You're a lady?" "I bought a title on the Internet. I own one square inch of Scotland. And you're changing the subject.
- Rachel Caine
Collection: Squares
Image of Lynne Truss
Brackets come in various shapes, types and names: 1 round brackets (which we call brackets, and the Americans call parentheses) 2 square brackets [which we call square brackets, and the Americans call brackets]
- Lynne Truss
Collection: Squares
Image of Edwin Arlington Robinson
I wonder more and more just where I may have come out if I had never seen Harvard Square.
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
Collection: Squares
Image of Vincent Price
We may all be a peculiar lot...often broke, often dissatisfied because we're not doing more and better work...but we know how to have a ball that makes the rest of the world seem square.
- Vincent Price
Collection: Squares
Image of Joe Strummer
Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing.
- Joe Strummer
Collection: Squares
Image of Ming-Dao Deng
An ancient gnarled tree: Too fibrous for a logger's saw, Too twisted to fit a carpenter's square, Outlasts the whole forest.
- Ming-Dao Deng
Collection: Squares
Image of Steve Kluger
Say 'Kenmore Square'," I insist. "Kenmaw Sqway-ah." "Say 'Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina.'" "Nothing could be finah than to be in Caroliner.'" "You're doing that on purpose." "I'm not. I sway-ah.
- Steve Kluger
Collection: Squares
Image of Joseph Fort Newton
The discovery of the Square was a great event to the primitive mystics of the Nile. Very early it became an emblem of truth, justice, and righteousness, and it remains to this day through unaccountable ages have passed.
- Joseph Fort Newton
Collection: Squares
Image of Tom Clancy
Washington D.C. is about 300 square miles surrounded by realty.
- Tom Clancy
Collection: Squares
Image of Rahsaan Roland Kirk
You don't see the European classical musicians allowing the music of Bach, Brahms, or Beethoven to become extinct. That music has gone on for centuries and centuries. We have the same obligation. Why do we have to become so 'hip' that we can say, 'Bebop is square,' or "New Orleans is square'? This, to me, is a shame.
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Collection: Squares
Image of Cus D'Amato
People who are born round don't die square.
- Cus D'Amato
Collection: Squares
Image of J. Vernon McGee
Being a square keeps you from going around in circles.
- J. Vernon McGee
Collection: Squares
Image of Laura Berg
An entrepreneur starts at square one and is not afraid to take chances to get to square one hundred and one
- Laura Berg
Collection: Squares
Image of Dick Costolo
Twitter is a global town square.
- Dick Costolo
Collection: Squares
Image of William De Morgan
A Corpse or a Ghost- I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present.
- William De Morgan
Collection: Squares
Image of Vicki Baum
The most remarkable thing about Hollywood is that it does not exist. ... Hollywood, in a word, has no center, never had one, no city hall, court house, church, square, or rather it probably has some of those but they're so aimlessly thrown in with the general jumble ... that I, for one, never found them.
- Vicki Baum
Collection: Squares
Image of Kazimir Malevich
The square = feeling, the white field = the void beyond this feeling.
- Kazimir Malevich
Collection: Squares
Image of Kazimir Malevich
When, in the year 1913, in my desperate attempt to free art from the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the square form and exhibited a picture which consisted of nothing more than a black square on a white field, the critics and, along with them, the public sighed: 'Everything which we loved is lost. We are in a desert .... Before us is nothing but a black square on a white background!'
- Kazimir Malevich
Collection: Squares
Image of Simonides of Ceos
It is hard to be truly excellent, four-square in hand and foot and mind, formed without blemish.
- Simonides of Ceos
Collection: Squares
Image of Augustus De Morgan
Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly that a negative quantity has no square root; thirdly that the first non-existent is to the second as the circumference of a circle is to the diameter.
- Augustus De Morgan
Collection: Squares
Image of Bridget Riley
I couldn’t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started studying squares, rectangles, triangles and the sensations they give rise to It is untrue that my work depends on any literary impulse or has any illustrative intention. The marks on the canvas are sole and essential agents in a series of relationships which form the structure of the painting.
- Bridget Riley
Collection: Squares
Image of Robert Metcalfe
In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system.
- Robert Metcalfe
Collection: Squares
Image of Roman Abramovich
But charity is a very complicated thing. Its important to find an area where you can really help and you can feel the results. Charity is not like feeding pigeons in the square. It is a process that requires professional management.
- Roman Abramovich
Collection: Squares
Image of Thurston Moore
Hits are for squares.
- Thurston Moore
Collection: Squares
Image of Al-Masudi
Via the squares on the chessboard, the Indians explain the movement of time and the age, the higher influences which control the world and the ties which link Chess with the human soul
- Al-Masudi
Collection: Squares
Image of Louis Walsh
There is more talent per square metre in Ireland than there is anywhere else. We just don't harness or help them ... the radio stations prefer to support the likes of Rihanna and Beyonce.
- Louis Walsh
Collection: Squares
Image of Huey Lewis
Take it from me, its hip to be square.
- Huey Lewis
Collection: Squares
Image of Curren$y
No square shall enter in the circle of winners
- Curren$y
Collection: Squares
Image of Trey Anastasio
What happens if you start drawing squares? Well, I'd say the answer to that is, don't get famous for drawing circles.
- Trey Anastasio
Collection: Squares
Image of J. B. Morton
To fairy flutes, As the light advances, In square black boots The cabman dances.
- J. B. Morton
Collection: Squares
Image of John Cornyn
I'm speaking of the ability of people of faith to freely express their beliefs in the public square.
- John Cornyn
Collection: Squares
Image of Howard Staunton
The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.
- Howard Staunton
Collection: Squares
Image of Samir Geagea
I have spent 11 horrific years in solitary confinement in a 6-square-meter dungeon three floors underground without sunlight or fresh air. But I endured my hardships because I was merely living my convictions.
- Samir Geagea
Collection: Squares
Image of Digger Phelps
The square is your friend. Behind every missed lay-up is a tale of the square neglected.
- Digger Phelps
Collection: Squares
Image of Mark Z. Jacobson
You can power the entire U.S. vehicle fleet with 73,000 to 145,000 five-megawatt wind turbines. That would take between one and three square kilometers of footprint on the ground.
- Mark Z. Jacobson
Collection: Squares
Image of Ernest Hollings
Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva.
- Ernest Hollings
Collection: Squares
Image of Aprilynne Pike
Square root of a cosine? How is that ever going to be useful?
- Aprilynne Pike
Collection: Squares
Image of Michael Atiyah
No one fully understands spinors. Their algebra is formally understood but their general significance is mysterious. In some sense they describe the 'square root' of geometry and, just as understanding the square root of -1 took centuries, the same might be true of spinors.
- Michael Atiyah
Collection: Squares
Image of Helge Ingstad
Young sailors once stood under a square sail, gazing wonderingly across the water to where a strange shore rose about the sea - a New World.
- Helge Ingstad
Collection: Squares
Image of Motomu Toriyama
We have a lot of great creators in Square Enix, but for larger-scale development we will be doing more distributed and outsourced development to reach our targets on time.
- Motomu Toriyama
Collection: Squares
Image of Gerard Schwarz
If you don't know what to do, find your worst Piece and look for a better Square.
- Gerard Schwarz
Collection: Squares
Image of Immanuel Velikovsky
If, occasionally, historical evidence does not square with formulated laws, it should be remembered that a law is but a deduction from experience and experiment, and therefore laws must conform with historical facts, not facts with laws.
- Immanuel Velikovsky
Collection: Squares
Image of Gary Gulman
Rich people are just like us though they now eat their meals off square shaped plates.
- Gary Gulman
Collection: Squares
Image of Michael Coren
People actually occupy around 3 per cent of the earth's land surface. If 1,200 square feet was given to every person in the world, they would still all fit into an area the size of Texas - whether the Texans would object is an altogether different issue!
- Michael Coren
Collection: Squares