Horizontal Quotes

• The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.

  Shana Alexander

  Men, Doctors, Medicine

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• Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.

  William Whewell

  Bending, Lines, Force

  Elementary Treatise on Mechanics ch. 4 (1819). This is an instance of unintentional rhyme and meter. After the passage's poetical qualities were pointed out to him,Whewell altered it in subsequent editions of the book.

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• Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dance, Sexy, Funny Sex

  In New Statesman 23 Mar. 1962

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• There's an arbitrary idea that the horizontal edge in a frame has to be the point of reference.

  Garry Winogrand

  Ideas, Arbitrary, Edges

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

  Patti Smith

  World, Lines, Neat

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• Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only through the portal of the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Reality, Depth, Layers

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.157, Penguin

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• The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.

  James MacDonald

  Humanity, Problem, Sin

  Twitter post from Aug 04, 2016

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• A vertical line is dignity. The horizontal line is peaceful. The obtuse angle is action. That's universal, it is primary.

  Janet Collins

  Peaceful, Lines, Action

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• The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.

  Glenn Gould

  Past, Notes, Planes

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• Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.

  Georges Braque

  Oval, Thanks, Vertical

  "Abstract Painting". Book by Michel Seuphor, Dell Publishing Co, p. 39, 1964.

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• It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony and rhythm, these basic forms of beauty, supplemented if necessary by other direct lines or curves, can become a work of art, as strong as it is true.

  Piet Mondrian

  Art, Strong, Curves

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• I don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying down.

  Truman Capote

  Lying, Writing, Thinking

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• The more opportunities people have to experience television on different platforms, the more television they consume overall. So there actually has been a benefit, but the ratings have gone down. But we've seen kind of the horizontal benefit of this. And it remains a great, great promotion engine.

  Anne Sweeney

  Opportunity, People, Different

  "Neil Smit and Anne Sweeney on TV's future". Interview with Stephanie Mehta, fortune.com. July 17, 2012.

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• I am persuaded ... that both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I know, pleasure too) best in a horizontal position.

  Laurence Sterne

  Pain, Men, Sorrow

  Laurence Sterne, Thomas Stothard (1867). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. And A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy ... With Life of the Author by Sir Walter Scott, Portrait, and Outline Wood Engravings After Thomas Stothard”, p.140

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• There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above.

  Fay Wray

  Clothes, Shots, Pulling

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• TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling

  Tina Brown

  Anchors, Hustle, Logistics

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• Too many of us live on the horizontal, vain level of life: We want to acquire more and more things; we want the material blessings of life and we are neglecting the elevated state of existence! And that's why God said of Abraham he was neither a Christian nor a Jew, he was a Muslim: he was an upright man.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Christian, Blessing, Men

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• More and more, I am pulled reluctantly towards a strong horizontal current, which is a place where time is moving at such high velocity, that even our breath is forced to accelerate just in order for us humans to survive. And I have always believed, that it is in our slow exhalation, where the sense of this deep spiritual energy resides. In a world moving so fast, with the growth of technology and information, I am somehow inclined to move against this current, in search of what it might mean to be connected not just spiritually, but also vertically.

  Akram Khan

  Dance, Spiritual, Time

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• My affection for CinemaScope initially was my affection for the horizontal line as I learned it from having been apprenticed to an architect who was someone named Frank Lloyd Wright.

  Nicholas Ray

  Lines, Affection, Architect

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• Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Doe, Needs, Neighbor

  Tullian Tchividjian (2013). “One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World”, p.200, David C Cook

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• New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable - but certainly surmountable.

  Jerry Saltz

  New York, Block, Mean

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• The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes.

  Tom Robbins

  Movement, Sometimes, Trouble

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• Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the same form. We use different tools, but we get the job done. I'm completely in love with CGI. It's great for conveying a cartoonist's sense of reality.

  Frank Miller

  Jobs, Book, Reality

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• My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.

  Richard Powers

  Dream, Lying, Writing

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• Personally, I am a great believer in bed, in constantly keeping horizontal...the heart and everything else go slower, and the whole system is refreshed.

  Henry Campbell-Bannerman

  Heart, Bed, Appearance

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