Squares Quotes - Page 2

• Hits are for squares.

  Thurston Moore

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• The square is to us what the cross was to the early Christians.

  Theo van Doesburg

  Christian, Crosses

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• To get squares you have to give up squares.

  Bobby Fischer

  Giving Up, Giving

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• The floor of ice cream parlor bothered me. It was black-and-white checkboard tile, bigger than supermarket checkboard. If I looked only at a white square, I would be all right, but it was hard to ignore the black squares that surrounded the white ones. The contrast got under my skin. The floor meant yes, no, this, that, up, down, day, night -all the indecisions and opposites that were bad enough in life without having them spelled out for you on the floor.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Black And White, Night, Ice Cream

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• The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Technology, Insightful

  1999 Business@the Speed of Thought (co-written with Collins Hemingway).

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• No square shall enter in the circle of winners

  Curren$y

  Circles, Winner

  Song: Airborne Aquarium, Album: The Stoned Immaculate, 2012

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• Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you—either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Art, Choices, Rebel

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• In real life a right-angled triangle is very unlikely to have a square on its hypotenuse.

  H. F. Ellis

  Real, Triangles, Unlikely

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• Hey buddy, don't you be no square, if you can't find a partner use a wooden chair.

  Elvis Presley

  Dancing, Use, Hey

  Song: Jailhouse Rock

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• I think that anybody from the 20th century, up to now, has to be aware that if it wasn't for Louis Armstrong, we'd all be wearing powdered wigs. I think that Louis Armstrong loosened the world, helped people to be able to say "Yeah," and to walk with a little dip in their hip. Before Louis Armstrong, the world was definitely square, just like Christopher Columbus thought.

  Hugh Masekela

  Thinking, People, Wigs

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• Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin.

  Willem Dafoe

  Boys, Games, Wisconsin

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

  Ezra Pound

  Beautiful, New York, Stars

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• You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Simple, Reality, People

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• The only way to deal with loss - as a horribly unwelcome guest that you know will show up eventually. And so you deny it and reject it and ignore it and laugh in its face. You toss it out into the street and push it away and fight it off, and only it has landed square in your lap, only then do you deal with it.

  Michael Johnson

  Motivational, Success, Loss

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• The squares of the periodic times are proportional to the cubes of the mean distances from the sun.

  Johannes Kepler

  Distance, Mean, Cubes

  "Johannes Kepler, 1571-1630: exhibit of books, manuscripts and related materials, quadricentennial celebration".

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• We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.

  Michelle Obama

  Honesty, Integrity, Play

  Speeach at the Democratic National Convention, www.npr.org. September 04, 2012.

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• Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Time, Mind, Littles

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2009). “The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion”, p.79, Penguin UK

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• As a young female I think it's important that young people know there's nothing wrong with having fun, nobody is telling us to be square or be boring, but we have to be safe.

  Rihanna

  Fun, Thinking, People

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• He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.

  Plato

  Plato, Math, Men

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• 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

  Everyday, Telling Stories, Levels

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am extremely square and obedient in nature!

  Tina Fey

  Obedient

  "And funny with it". Interview with Christopher Goodwin, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2008.

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• Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

  Ezra Pound

  Stars, Satisfaction, New York City

  Ezra Pound (1992). “A Walking Tour in Southern France: Ezra Pound Among the Troubadours”, p.112, New Directions Publishing

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• Washington, DC is 12 square miles bordered by reality.

  Andrew Johnson

  Reality, Washington Dc, Miles

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• There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square.

  John Waters

  War, Film Critics, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Roots, Understanding, Might

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