Squares Quotes - Page 22

• People have passed through a very dark tunnel at the end of which there was a light of freedom. Unexpectedly they passed through the prison gates and found themselves in a square. They are now free and they don't know where to go.

  Vaclav Havel

  Dark, Tunnels, Light

  "Address at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London". The Independent, March 22, 1990.

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• The idea of beauty which man creates for himself imprints itself on his whole attire, crumples or stiffens his dress, rounds off or squares his gesture, and in the long run even ends by subtly penetrating the very features of his face. Man ends by looking like his ideal self. These engravings can be translated either into beauty or ugliness; in one direction, they become caricatures, in the other, antique statues.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Running, Men, One Direction

  Charles Baudelaire (1986). “The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays”

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• We must let this town square, which has added a significant dimension to our political process, continue to flourish.

  Russ Feingold

  Political, Towns, Dimensions

  "Judy Woodruff's Inside Politics", transcripts.cnn.com. March 10, 2005.

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• English stupidity is an organism so primitive that it is apparently impossible to kill off. It reminds me of Physarum Polycephalum, the gigantic slime mould recently bred by scientists at Bonn. Bright yellow and about two millimetres thick, this monocellular creature--neither plant nor animal--grew to a size of 10 square yards before the scientists took fright and froze it. It can smell its favourite food, and move towards it at a speed of up to two centimetres an hour. This favourite food is porridge.

  Neal Ascherson

  Moving, Animal, Two

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• You must on no account attempt to use the squares given in the Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage until you have succeeded in the Operation. More, unless you mean to perform it, and are prepared to go to any length to do so, you are a fool to have the book in your possession at all. Those squares are liable to get loose and do things on their own initiative; and you won't like it.

  Aleister Crowley

  Book, Mean, Magic

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• A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Book, Roots

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• The integrity of China was more important than [the people] in Tiananmen Square.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Integrity, People, Important

  "Gaddafi urges violent showdown and tells Libya 'I'll die a martyr'" by Ian Black, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2011.

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• Jerry Falwell knows who caused the terrorist attack on America: the ACLU. "The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this," he declared on the 700 Club, because, he explained, the ACLU, abetted by the federal courts is responsible for "throwing God out of the public square (and) the public schools." This is a familiar charge and a false one. God is still present in the public schools, where students are free to pray, alone or in groups, so long as their prayers aren't officially sponsored and don't infringe on anyone's freedom not to pray.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Prayer, School, America

  "Our Very Own Taliban". prospect.org. December 19, 2001.

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• I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Sacrifice, Tree

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• The most remarkable thing about Hollywood is that it does not exist. ... Hollywood, in a word, has no center, never had one, no city hall, court house, church, square, or rather it probably has some of those but they're so aimlessly thrown in with the general jumble ... that I, for one, never found them.

  Vicki Baum

  Cities, House, Church

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• The walking tour guides one through the city's various landmarks, reciting bits of information the listener might find enlightening. I learned, for example, that in the late 1500s my little neighborhood square was a popular spot for burning people alive. Now lined with a row of small shops, the tradition continues, though in a figurative rather than literal sense.

  David Sedaris

  Cities, People, Example

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Peace, War, Panama Canal

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• I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received, and heard him muse incredulously: "An old-fashioned naval battle. A war between two civilized nations, perhaps with even a declaration of war, and later a peace conference. Wow." No hostages, no nukes, no ideologies, no religious fanaticism; just a fair-and-square war over national interests - hard to believe, in this day and age.

  William Safire

  Religious, Peace, War

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• I am grateful that I have rights in the proverbial public square - but, as a practical matter, my most cherished rights are those that I possess in my bedroom and hospital room and death chamber.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Grateful, Rights, Matter

  "A Culture of Liberty". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2009.

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• To speak technically photography is the art of writing with light. But if I want to think about it more philosophically, I can say that photography is the art of writing with time. When you capture an image you capture not only a piece of space, you also capture a piece of time. So you have this piece of specific time in your square or rectangle. In that sense I find that photography has more to do with time than with light.

  Gerardo Suter

  Photography, Art, Writing

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• Too much knowledge could be a bad thing. I was lead to the Szemerédi theorem by proving a result, about squares, that Euler had already proven, and I relied on an "obvious" fact, about arithmetical progressions, that was unproved at the time. But that lead me to try and prove that formerly unproved statement- about arithmetical progressions-and that ultimately lead to the Szemerédi Theorem.

  Endre Szemeredi

  Science, Trying, Facts

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• People in the church should not accept the notion that the public square is off limits to religious values.

  Lloyd Billingsley

  Christian, Religious, People

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• We got email today from an LGF reader who was browsing the Lexis research system and discovered that anti-American, anti-capitalist icon Noam Chomsky has embarrassingly capitalist tastes; among other expensive property he owns a 36,155 square foot home near Cambridge, a 13,503 square foot vacation home, and four boats. And we won't even mention the cars. Teaching kids to hate their own country seems to pay quite well.

  Charles Foster Johnson

  Country, Hate, Teaching

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• If, occasionally, historical evidence does not square with formulated laws, it should be remembered that a law is but a deduction from experience and experiment, and therefore laws must conform with historical facts, not facts with laws.

  Immanuel Velikovsky

  Law, Historical, Doe

  Immanuel Velikovsky (1966). “Worlds in Collision”, p.19, Paradigma Ltd

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• The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Respect, Justice, Demand

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• Newton supposed that all matter attracted other matter inversely according to the square of the distance; and the hypothesis was found to account for the whole movements of the heavenly bodies; which all became verifications of what Newton supposed to be the law of the solar system. Adopt the hypothesis that Jesus was what He is represented, and the whole of the books and the history becomes a verification.

  James McCosh

  Jesus, Distance, Book

  James McCosh (1875). “Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics”, p.307

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• The labor unions shall have a square deal, and the corporations shall have a square deal, and in addition, all private citizens shall have a square deal.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Government, Citizens, Unions

  Theodore Roosevelt “Letters: The Square Deal, 1901-1905”

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• There's nothing but what's bearable as long as a man can work.... The square o' four is sixteen, and you must lengthen your lever in proportion to your weight, is as true when a man's miserable as when he's happy; and the best o' working is, it gives you a grip hold o' things outside your own lot.

  George Eliot

  Work, Men, Long

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.60

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• 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

  Blue, Color, Yellow

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• I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening once one person starts digging up Parliament Square, then someone else is going to join in and you have a spiral.

  Mike Todd, Jr.

  Digging, Spirals, Parliament

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