Horizontals And Verticals Quotes & Sayings

Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by the vastness of Nature, I was trying to express its expansion, rest and unity. — Piet Mondrian

Whatever effects one directly, effects all indirectly. — Martin Luther King Jr.

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students. — Bill Cosby

For your loss, never regret.
But forgive and forget. — Debasish Mridha

Your potential, the absolute best you're capable of - that's the metric to measure yourself against. Your standards are. Winning is not enough. People can get lucky and win. People can be assholes and win. Anyone can win. But not everyone is the best possible version of themselves. — Ryan Holiday

The purity of man is the absence of something, the purity of Jesus is the presence of something. — Ravi Zacharias

She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, a tiny, bloody angel in the snow, and they were going to destroy her. — Maggie Stiefvater

All I want to do is sing on other people's records. — Neko Case

Visually Agincourt is a pre-Raphaelite, perhaps better a Medici Gallery print battle - a composition of strong verticals and horizontals and a conflict of rich dark reds and Lincoln greens against fishscale greys and arctic blues. — John Keegan

This hand shake is a threshold moment. With this strangely beautiful man in my life, I have a feeling it will never be the same again. — L. H. Cosway

Think, for a moment, of the countless happy childhood hours you spent with this amazing device: Drawing perfect horizontals, drawing perfect verticals, drawing really spastic diagonals, trying to scrape away the silver powder from the window so you could look inside. — Dave Barry

The thankful heart sees the best part of every situation. It sees problems and weaknesses as opportunities, struggles as refining tools, and sinners as saints in progress. — Francis Frangipane

To me, if you're lucky enough to make stuff that people will pay money for, do a good job. Really do a good job. Especially if you're talking about real stuff, like terror atrocities and human rights abuses and pencil-sharpening techniques. — David Rees

A random crack in the old plaster in the corner behind her seemed to grow, until it curled its way across the ceiling, circled the frosted chandelier, and swirled its way back down. It looked like a heart. A giant, looping, girly heart had just appeared in the cracking plaster of her bedroom ceiling.
"Lena."
"Yeah?"
"Is your ceiling about to fall in on our heads?"
She turned and looked at the crack. When she saw it, she bit her lip, and her cheeks turned pink. "I don't think so. It's just a crack in the plaster."
"Were you trying to do that?"
"No." A creeping pink spread across her nose and cheeks. She looked away. — Kami Garcia

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before. — Theodore Bikel