Parallelogram Quotes

• The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides.

  Archimedes

  Lying, Opposites, Joining

  Archimedes, Sir Thomas Little Heath (2002). “The Works of Archimedes”, p.194, Courier Corporation

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• The vision shared by both [French utopian] Charles Fourier and Robert Owen was for an entire town to fit into one structure. Owen's design for what he called a "parallelogram" was essentially to have a whole city in one building, laid out around a huge quadrangle. Fourier's scheme was to build a massive Versailles-like structure that he called a "phalanstery." In both cases they had these architectural dreams that we now recognize as pretty unappealing.

  Christine Jennings

  Dream, Cities, Design

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Sick, Choices, Actors

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• The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything

  Stephen Leacock

  Science, Swag, House

  'Literary Lapses' (1910) 'Boarding-House Geometry'

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• Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.

  John Michael Hayes

  Song, Inspiration, Writing

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• If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.

  Jonathan Swift

  Beauty, Women, Math

  Jonathan Swift (1826). “Gulliver's Travels”

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• My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Husband, Widows, Literature

  Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.21, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.

  Clarence Day

  Friendship, Real, Men

  Clarence Day (2017). “This Simian World”, p.11, Litres

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• We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

  Albert Camus

  Facts, Fame

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• If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Philosophy, Sisterhood

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.

  Isaac Newton

  Aggravation, Accomplishment, Celibacy

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• Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Powerful, Teaching, Tools

  Bill O'Reilly (2002). “The No Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America”, p.7, Three Rivers Press

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• I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

  Laura Kightlinger

  Queens, Dresses, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

  Seth Lloyd

  Simple, Starting Over, Able

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• Who can tell whether the parallelogram, which in our ignorance we have defined and drawn, and the whole of whose properties we profess to know, may not be all the while panting for exterior angles, sympathetic with the interior, or sullenly repining at the fact that it cannot be inscribed in a circle?

  Lewis Carroll

  Ignorance, Circles, May

  The Dynamics of a Parti-cle (1865)

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• One can't help thinking, Daddy, what a colourless life a man is forced to lead, when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian point and hand embroidery and Irish crochet are to him mere empty words. Whereas a woman- whether she is interested in babies or microbes or husbands or poetry or servants or parallelograms or gardens or Plato or bridge- is fundamentally and always interested in clothes.

  Jean Webster

  Baby, Plato, Husband

  Jean Webster (2002). “Daddy-Long-Legs”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and direction and to combine according to the parallelogram law; and many of them are not at all reminiscent of journeys.

  Banesh Hoffmann

  Journey, Law, Statistics

  Banesh Hoffmann (2012). “About Vectors”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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