Triangles Quotes - Page 2

• Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions. If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite.

  Ezra Pound

  Squares, Giving, Mind

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• Pumpkins are the only living organisms with triangle eyes.

  Harland Williams

  Eye, Pumpkin, Living Organisms

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

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• Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.

  Galileo Galilei

  Philosophy, Book, Mean

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• Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

  Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

  Uprising, Arithmetic, Trinity

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• I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular; and thus would every one ascribe his own attributes to God.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Believe, Circles, Atheism

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• Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will point to him or her and that person will play "ting." That might seem so insignificant, but in the conception of the composer something irreplaceable would be lost to the total beauty of the symphony if that "ting" did not happen.

  Desmond Tutu

  Play, Symphony, Community

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• Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.

  Ray Bradbury

  Country, Eye, Knives

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• For me, typography is a triangular relationship between design idea, typographic elements, and printing technique.

  Wolfgang Weingart

  Relationship, Ideas, Design

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• There's a pizza place near where I live that sells only slices. In the back, you can see a guy tossing a triangle in the air.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Air

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• The life of the spirit may be fairly represented in diagram as a large acute-angled triangle divided horizontally into unequal parts with the narrowest segment uppermost. The lower the segment the greater it is in breadth, depth, and area.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Depth, May, Spirit

  Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Kandinsky”, p.23, Parkstone International

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• If our highly pointed triangles of the soldier class are formidable, it may be readily inferred that far more formidable are our women. For if a soldier is a wedge, a women is a needle; being, so to speak, all point, at least at the two extremities. Add to this the power of making herself practically invisible at will, and you will perceive that a female, in Flatland, is a creature by no means to be trifled with.

  Edwin A. Abbott

  Mean, Class, Two

  Edwin A. Abbott (2017). “Flatland”, p.17, BookRix

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• Every wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace is fluidly built at the bottom of the lake, in the triangle of earth, fire and water.

  Emile Zola

  Fire, Lakes, Snakes

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• There were two now where they had been three. David's death had dismantled the triangle, and an enclosed space was now open. Two points are unreliable; with nothing to anchor them, there is nothing to stop them drifting in opposite directions. If it is string that binds, it will eventually snap and the points will separate; if elastic, they will continue to part, further and further, until the strain reaches its limit and they are pulled back with such speed that they cannot help but collide with devastating force.

  Kate Morton

  Anchors, Opposites, Two

  Kate Morton (2009). “The House at Riverton: A Novel”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• There, carried high on a bank of clouds, hovers a shape, a triangle in the sky. This is the Holy Mountain Athos, station of a faith where all the years have stopped.

  Robert Byron

  Clouds, Years, Sky

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• A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance.

  Dan Flavin

  Wall, Light, Pieces

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• Alex, Add it up. No matter how much you want her in your life, she doesn’t belong. A triangle can’t fit into a square. Just pointing out the facts” "“Gracias” I don’t point out that if it’s a big enough square, a small triangle can fit inside perfectly. All you have to do is make a few adjustments.

  Simone Elkeles

  Squares, Add, Alex

  Simone Elkeles (2010). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.121, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• You could probably prove, by judicious use of logarithms and congruent triangles, that real life is a lot more like soap opera than most people will admit.

  Molly Ivins

  Real, People, Use

  Molly Ivins (1992). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, Vintage

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• Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.

  Germaine Greer

  Two, Guilt, Sides

  "Guilt poisons women" by Germaine Greer, www.cnn.com. March 12, 2013.

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• Placing your stick at the end of the shadow of the pyramid, you made by the sun's rays two triangles, and so proved that the pyramid [height] was to the stick [height] as the shadow of the pyramid to the shadow of the stick.

  Thales

  Two, Pyramids, Shadow

  "A Short Account of the History of Mathematics". Book by W. W. Rouse Ball, 1893.

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• The triangle pointing downward is a female symbol corresponding to the yoni and the upward pointing triangle is the male, the lingam ... When the two triangles are interlaced, it represents the union of the active and passive forces in nature; it represents the male and female elements.

  Albert Mackey

  Two, Males, Female

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• If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  God, Three, Sides

  'Lettres Persanes' (1721) no. 59

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• I've never been in a love triangle. I would not want to be in that situation.

  Taylor Lautner

  Want, Love Triangle, Situation

  "Taylor Lautner Video Interview THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE; Also Talks BREAKING DAWN, ABDUCTION, and STRETCH ARMSTRONG". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 12, 2010.

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• I suppose everybody has a mental picture of the days of the week, some seeing them as a circle, some as an endless line, and others again, for all I know, as triangles and cubes. Mine is a wavy line proceeding to infinity, dipping to Wednesday which is the colour of old silver dark with polishing and rising again to a pale gold Sunday. This day has a feeling in my picture of warmth and light breezes and sunshine and afternoons that stretch to infinity and mornings full of far-off bells.

  Angela Thirkell

  Morning, Sunshine, Sunday

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• I got a random tattoo the other day. It's a red triangle, which makes everyone think I'm arty, which I'm not. I used to draw red triangles all the time. It must mean something - maybe I don't know it yet. But I'll figure it out.

  Ellie Goulding

  Tattoo, Mean, Thinking

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

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• I feel dominant - I feel the triangle offense utilizes all my skills.

  Amar'e Stoudemire

  Skills, Feels, Offense

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