Quotes of Horizontal - somelinesforyou

“ We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes. ”

- Konstantin Stanislavisky

“ I liked New York when it was an up-and-down city for me, low streets and high buildings. But then, for me, it grew horizontal — monotonous. ”

- Jasper Johns

“ A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Life is a horizontal fall. ”

- Jean Cocteau

“ Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards. ”

- William Whewell

“ My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere. ”

- Linda McCartney

“ The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. ”

- Sydney Smiles

“ The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once. ”

- Samuel Smiles

“ Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: earthquake. ”

- Jean Baudrillard

“ I learned three important things in college — to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule. ”

- Agnes de Mille
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