Squares Quotes - Page 27

• Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; its a privately owned space on the Internet.

  John Scalzi

  Space, Internet, Reddit

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• But every page having an ample marge, And every marge enclosing in the midst A square of text that looks a little blot.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Book, Looks, Littles

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Merlin and Vivien' (1859) l. 667

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• Rather than an excess of firearms there's a shortage of faith and family that has a lot more to do with what happened out in Littleton. Let's face it, our public square is more hostile to religion than it is to Marilyn Manson.

  Kate O'Beirne

  Religion, Excess, Faces

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• Geometry is of much assistance in architecture, and in particular it teaches us the use of the rule and compasses, by which especially we acquire readiness in making plans for buildings in their grounds, and rightly apply the square, the level, and the plummet. By means of optics the light in buildings can be drawn from fixed quarters of the sky. Difficult questions involving symmetry are solved by means of geometrical theories and methods.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Mean, Light, Sky

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 4,

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• Thanks in large measure to the ACLU, the belief that there is a wall of separation between faith and state, not just church and state, is endemic. The exercise of religious faith in the public square is not prohibited; only the federal imposition of a particular faith. Hardly anyone any longer knows the difference.

  F. LaGard Smith

  Christian, Religious, Wall

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• Each summer, for example, nitrogen and phosphate washing from farmlands in the Mississippi Valley enter the Gulf of Mexico, creating a massive algal bloom covering some 16,000 square kilometers. As the blooms die off, this area-roughly the size of New Jersey-is so deprived of oxygen that no fish survive.

  Lester R. Brown

  Summer, Oxygen, Creating

  Lester R. Brown, Michael Renner (2014). “Vital Signs 1999-2000: The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future”, p.25, Routledge

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• Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than two square meals.

  Stephen Leacock

  Food, Two, House

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “Literary Lapses”, p.18, The Floating Press

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• There was this real fear in doing Square Pegs after getting such a fast ride to glory on Saturday Night Live. I was afraid that the word would be peaks early, fails to live up to promise.

  Anne Beatts

  Real, Night, Promise

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• I am not a multimillionaire. I dont own a yacht or a Ferrari. I live in a 60-square- metre flat. My needs are simple.

  Ferran Adria

  Simple, Ferrari, Needs

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• Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe.

  Henry Anatole Grunwald

  Morning, Fear, Home

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• If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts, you must frequent the public square. The people, and not the college, is the writer's home. A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Home, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.666, Modern Library

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• Performance should be made square with promise.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Promise, Made, Should

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• The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the fragrance it once contained.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Beautiful, Men, Broken

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• I want to get to the point where one day I don't have to have anything but a rug and a microphone stand on stage and still be able to sell out places like Madison Square Garden, like Bruce Springsteen does.

  Demi Lovato

  Garden, One Day, Doe

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• You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a good thing, but you can't put a round peg in a square hole.

  Ray Liotta

  Independent, Becoming, Good Things

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• My face seems too square and my eyes too big, like I'm perpetually surprised, but there's nothing wrong with me that I can fix.

  David Levithan

  Eye, Faces, Appearance

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.9, Penguin

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• Is this what it means to go back to square one? Most likely. He had nothing left to lose, other than his life.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mean, Left, Loses

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• The ship's boards were still sticky with new resin. We leaned over the railing to wave our last farewell, the sun-warm wood pressed against our bellies. The sailors heaved up the anchor, square and chalky with barnacles, and loosened the sails. Then they took their seats at the oars that fringed the boat like eyelashes, waiting for the count. The drums began to beat, and the oars lifted and fell, taking us to Troy.

  Madeline Miller

  Farewell, Eyelashes, Anchors

  Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.179, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I was very awkward as a kid. I was a square trying to fit into a circle and it never worked for me. The harder I tried, the harder I fell. For some reason I was a real target and I got beat up and called names.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Real, Kids, Circles

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• There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.

  Eugenio Montale

  Country, Crowds, Regimes

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• There's an easy method for finding someone when you hear them scream. First get a clean sheet of paper and a sharp pencil. Then sketch out nine rows of fourteen squares each. Then throw the piece of paper away and find whoever is screaming so you can help them. It is no time to fiddle with paper.

  Daniel Handler

  Pieces, Paper, Nine

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• Well, why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good square look at the inmates? As weird a gaggle of freaks and sub-humans as was ever collected in one spot.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Taken, Careers, House

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• I hear they feed you in Sing Sing,” Evie muttered. “Three squares a day.” “Evangeline,” Will said with a sigh. “Charity begins at home.” “So does mental illness.

  Libba Bray

  Home, Doe, Three

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• It's a sponge and I'm a sponge and for a second there all our sponge parts are one and I don't just have square pants, everything about me is squarish because I'm part of a wall.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Wall, Pants, Sponges

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.277, Delacorte Press

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• A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it brought a foretaste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity "on a square yard of space.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Years, Space, Feelings

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1999). “Crime and Punishment”, p.588, Modern Library

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