Horizontal Quotes - Page 3

• Dancing is a vertical interpretation of a horizontal intention.

  Fred Astaire

  Dancing, Intention, Interpretation

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• True. There is
  a beautiful Jesus.
  He is frozen to his bones like a chunk of beef.
  How desperately he wanted to pull his arms in!
  How desperately I touch his vertical and horizontal axes!
  But I can't. Need is not quite belief.

  Anne Sexton

  Beautiful, God, Jesus

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Horizontal hostility may be expressed in sibling rivalry or in competitive dueling which wrecks not only office tranquility or suburban domesticity but also some radical political groups and, it must be sadly said, some women's liberation groups. ... [it is] misdirected anger that rightly should be focused on the external causes of oppression.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Sibling, Office, Political

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• Here lies, in a "horizontal" position The "outside" case of Peter Pendulum, watch-maker. He departed this life "wound up" In hopes of being "taken in hand" by his Maker, And of being thoroughly "cleaned, repaired" and "set a-going" In the world to come.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Lying, Taken, Hands

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• All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down. A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.

  Adolf Loos

  Art, Lying, Erotic

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• This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.

  Charles Gounod

  Music, Ocean, Serenity

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• What was up with class today? It was watered-down porn. He practically had you and Patch on top of your lab table, horizontal, minus your clothes, doing the Big Deed.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Class, Clothes, Deeds

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• If you want to know what it will be like when we are more deeply into the horizontal, simply go to one of the Indian casinos. The Native Americans, who stand for vertical thinking more than anyone else in our culture, have been setting up totally flat casinos for honkies.

  Robert Bly

  Native American, Thinking, Culture

  Source: www.utne.com

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• You use the vertical edge as the point of reference, instead of the horizontal edge. I have a picture of a beggar, where there's an arm coming into the frame from the side. And the arm is parallel to the horizontal edge and it makes it work. It's all games, you know. But it keeps it interesting to do, to play.

  Garry Winogrand

  Games, Play, Interesting

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Top Down, Challenges, Charity

  "Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking Glass World". Book by Eduardo Galeano, 2000.

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• The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that a universal principle is involved.

  Adrian Bejan

  Running, Swimming, Impact

  "Everybody's Doing the Locomotion". www.foxnews.com. December 30, 2005.

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• Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Kings, New York, Earthquakes

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• The outer purpose belongs to the horizontal dimension of space and time; the inner purpose concerns a deepening of your Being in the vertical dimension of the timeless Now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Space, Purpose, Dimensions

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.88, New World Library

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• In years to come cities will stretch out horizontally and will be non-urban (Los Angeles). After that, they will bury themselves in the ground and will no longer have names. Everything will become infrastructure bathed in artificial light and energy. The brilliant superstructure, the crazy verticality will have disappeared. New York is the final fling of this baroque verticality, this centrifugal excentricity, before the horizontal dismantling arrives, and the subterranean implosion that will follow.

  Jean Baudrillard

  New York, Crazy, Light

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• I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.

  Truman Capote

  Lying, Writing, Thinking

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.28, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.

  Hans Arp

  Men, Touching, Symbols

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• Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one

  W. H. Auden

  Men, Honor, Ifs

  'To Christopher Isherwood' (1930)

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• Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Integrating, Planes

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.48, Beacon Press

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• When the elements are arranged in vertical columns according to increasing atomic weight, so that the horizontal lines contain analogous elements again according to increasing atomic weight, an arrangement results from which several general conclusions may be drawn.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Science, Elements, Weight

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• The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material more or less varied, which almost all contain innumerable products of the sea.

  Georges Cuvier

  Sea, Land, Depth

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• I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.

  Donald Barthelme

  Art, Thinking, Progress

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• If our worship is just great youth meetings, nice songs, lots of jumping around and a few CDs, then we're missing it. Our vertical expression must have a horizontal effect. So, we'll continue to worship, praise and honour God with heart, soul, mind and strength the best we know how, but the fruit of that must be a generation who are totally committed to reaching the lost and helping those who need help, locally and globally.

  Joel Houston

  Song, Nice, Heart

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• I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.

  Robert Bly

  Mother, Father, Sibling

  Source: www.utne.com

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• Charity, vertical, humiliates. Solidarity, horizontal, helps.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Charity, Helping, Solidarity

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• Vertical lift-up politics rather than horizontal left-right.

  Mike Huckabee

  Lifts, Left, Vertical

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