Top Squares Quotes Collection - Page 3

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Image of Ben Okri
I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
- Ben Okri
Collection: Squares
Image of Brandon Sanderson
I killed you once", the Lord Ruler said, turning back to Kelsier. "You tried", Kelsier replied, his voice loud and firm, carrying across the square. "But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that thing you've never been able to kill no matter how hard you try. I am hope.
- Brandon Sanderson
Collection: Squares
Image of Rick Riordan
Once he'd even reprogrammed the electronic billboards in Time Square to read: ALL DA LADIES LUV LEO... accidentally, of course.
- Rick Riordan
Collection: Squares
Image of Marina Warner
If you want a good handbag and glasses, it's hard to get something without the brand name on it because it's so important to have the charmed inscription. The only way you do it... This handbag was the only one in the shop without a charmed inscription. It's just an ordinary bag. I went into the department store in Sloane Square, because I needed a new bag, because my old one lost its handles. Then I found this one, and I said "Why is it so cheap?" and the seller said, "Because it doesn't have a name!"
- Marina Warner
Collection: Squares
Image of Laozi
The perfect square lacks corners.
- Laozi
Collection: Squares
Image of Henry David Thoreau
It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live.
- Henry David Thoreau
Collection: Squares
Image of Leon Trotsky
Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
- Leon Trotsky
Collection: Squares
Image of William Wordsworth
But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?
- William Wordsworth
Collection: Squares
Image of Hans Arp
Already in 1915, Sophie Tauber divides the surface of her aquarelle into squares and rectangles which she then juxtaposes horizontally and perpendicularly as Mondrian, Itten and Paul Klee did in the same period, fh). She constructs them as if they were masonry work. The colors are luminous, ranging from the raw yellow to deep red or blue.
- Hans Arp
Collection: Squares
Image of Dante Alighieri
As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.
- Dante Alighieri
Collection: Squares
Image of Cassandra Clare
I love round tables. They suit me so much better than a square.
- Cassandra Clare
Collection: Squares
Image of Rei Kawakubo
I'd make my whole collection with just one square of fabric. I wouldn't do anything else; everything had to be made from one square. This is just one example.
- Rei Kawakubo
Collection: Squares
Image of Cassandra Clare
You want a round table meeting, we can have a round table meeting." "I love round tables," said Magnus brightly. "They suit me so much better than square.
- Cassandra Clare
Collection: Squares
Image of Robert Breault
Corporations no longer try to fit square pegs into round holes; they just fit them into square cubicles.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Squares
Image of Russ Feingold
We must let this town square, which has added a significant dimension to our political process, continue to flourish.
- Russ Feingold
Collection: Squares
Image of Emily Carr
The foolish square calves pretend to be frightened of our train. Bluffers! Haven't they seen it every day since they were born? It's just an excuse to shake the joy out of their heels.
- Emily Carr
Collection: Squares
Image of Benjamin Carson
Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA.
- Benjamin Carson
Collection: Squares
Image of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Collection: Squares
Image of Buzz Aldrin
The energy varies with the square of the velocity, so if you need five times the velocity, that's 25 times the energy.
- Buzz Aldrin
Collection: Squares
Image of Gary North
The Revelation speaks powerfully today, and its message to us is the same as it was to the early Church: that "there is not a square inch of ground in heaven or on earth or under the earth in which there is peace between Christ and Satan.".
- Gary North
Collection: Squares
Image of Tony Abbott
I don't bring religion into the square.
- Tony Abbott
Collection: Squares
Image of Billy Childish
We had the same kind of unemployment here as they had in the worst hit places in the North and you're meant to be on a cushy wicket in the South. If you go up to Newcastle, you can tell that the town's really had money, or Liverpool, you know, the northern towns have got grandeur, whereas Medway, being just a sort of garrison town and dockyard town, you don't have anything like Earl Grey Square or anything like that.
- Billy Childish
Collection: Squares
Image of Confucius
I do not enlighten those who are not eager to learn, nor arouse those who are not anxious to give an explanation themselves. If I have presented one corner of the square and they cannot come back to me with the other three, I should not go over the points again.
- Confucius
Collection: Squares
Image of Sheryl Crow
I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting.
- Sheryl Crow
Collection: Squares
Image of Debbie Reynolds
I have over five thousand costumes and props and cars, and I have a twenty-five thousand square foot warehouse full of memorabilia.
- Debbie Reynolds
Collection: Squares
Image of Barbara Corcoran
The wheels of justice - they're square wheels.
- Barbara Corcoran
Collection: Squares
Image of Siegbert Tarrasch
In a rook and pawn ending, the rook must be used aggressively. It must either attack enemy pawns, or give active support to the advance of one of its own pawns to the queening square.
- Siegbert Tarrasch
Collection: Squares
Image of Albert Einstein
It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing - a somewhat unfamiliar conception for the average mind. Furthermore, the equation E = mc², in which energy is put equal to mass, multiplied by the square of the velocity of light, showed that very small amounts of mass may be converted into a very large amount of energy and vice versa.
- Albert Einstein
Collection: Squares
Image of Lawrence Durrell
Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.
- Lawrence Durrell
Collection: Squares
Image of Fyodor Dostoevsky
A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it brought a foretaste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity "on a square yard of space.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Collection: Squares
Image of Agnes Varda
When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don't make it. So I tried to make it more refined. I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn't want to say or didn't want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
- Agnes Varda
Collection: Squares
Image of Carl Friedrich Gauss
That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity, is to be attributed largely to an ill-adapted notation. If, for example, +1, -1, and the square root of -1 had been called direct, inverse and lateral units, instead of positive, negative and imaginary (or even impossible), such an obscurity would have been out of the question.
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
Collection: Squares
Image of Daniel Handler
There's an easy method for finding someone when you hear them scream. First get a clean sheet of paper and a sharp pencil. Then sketch out nine rows of fourteen squares each. Then throw the piece of paper away and find whoever is screaming so you can help them. It is no time to fiddle with paper.
- Daniel Handler
Collection: Squares
Image of Fede Alvarez
In my everyday life, I can be as square as I want. But when it comes to movies and telling stories, I can't. I've got to be radical, and on some level, that's what I like to do.
- Fede Alvarez
Collection: Squares
Image of Elbert Hubbard
You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.
- Elbert Hubbard
Collection: Squares
Image of Jake M. Johnson
We didn't make money but we never lost money. We'd sit around Times Square with fliers, walk around the Village and try and get people to come. Now you'd just tweet it, but that was the beginning of emails, or the beginning of me doing emails - I'm sure there were people in 1986 who were doing emails.
- Jake M. Johnson
Collection: Squares
Image of Gary Hamel
The value of your network is the square of the number of people in it.
- Gary Hamel
Collection: Squares
Image of Khaled Hosseini
Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile.
- Khaled Hosseini
Collection: Squares
Image of Tod Machover
The barn where I work, it's only 15 minutes or so from Harvard square, so It's very close to the center of Boston, but it happens to be a total oasis. It's completely quiet in there.
- Tod Machover
Collection: Squares
Image of Merle Haggard
I'm proud to be an Oakie from Muskogee, a place where even squares can have a ball. We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse and white lightning's still the biggest thrill of all.
- Merle Haggard
Collection: Squares
Image of Aldous Huxley
Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
- Aldous Huxley
Collection: Squares
Image of James Joyce
And the first till last alshemist wrote over every square inch of the only foolscap available, his own body, till by its corrosive sublimation one continuous present tense integument slowly unfolded all marryvoising moodmoulded cyclewheeling history.
- James Joyce
Collection: Squares
Image of Jane Jacobs
Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.
- Jane Jacobs
Collection: Squares
Image of Samuel Johnson
Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Squares
Image of Anatoly Karpov
Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares is named after me.
- Anatoly Karpov
Collection: Squares
Image of Jhumpa Lahiri
On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in bowl.
- Jhumpa Lahiri
Collection: Squares
Image of C. S. Lewis
There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.
- C. S. Lewis
Collection: Squares
Image of David Letterman
Hookers in Times Square, God bless 'em, are offering a Mitt Romney Special. For an extra $20 they'll change positions.
- David Letterman
Collection: Squares
Image of C. S. Lewis
In God's dimension, so to speak, you find a being who is three Persons while remaining one Being, just as a cube is six squares while remaining one cube.
- C. S. Lewis
Collection: Squares