Horizontal Quotes:

Vivre est une chute horizontale. Life is a horizontal fall.

- Jean Cocteau

source: 'Opium' (1930) p. 37

topic: Fall, Life Is, Horizontal

There's an arbitrary idea that the horizontal edge in a frame has to be the point of reference.

- Garry Winogrand

source: Source: www.americansuburbx.com

topic: Ideas, Arbitrary, Horizontal

I'm old and my knowledge is strictly horizontal.

- Greg Proops

topic: Knowledge, Horizontal

Vertical lift-up politics rather than horizontal left-right.

- Mike Huckabee

topic: Horizontal, Lifts, Left, Vertical

I won't consider getting horizontal with someone I can barely tolerate when we're vertical.

- Nora Roberts

source: Nora Roberts (2013). “Nora Roberts' MacGregors Collection:”, p.699, Penguin

topic: Tolerate, Horizontal, Vertical

The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.

- Shana Alexander

topic: Men, Medicine, Doctors, Horizontal

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

topic: Lines, Bending, Force, Horizontal Lines, Cords

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Dance, Sexy, Expression, Wordplay, Inspirational Dance

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

- Patti Smith

topic: World, Lines, Horizontal Lines, Vertical, Interiors

Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only through the portal of the present moment.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Reality, Depth, Layers, Vertical, Horizontal

The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.

- James MacDonald

topic: Humanity, Problem, Sin, Vertical, Horizontal

A vertical line is dignity. The horizontal line is peaceful. The obtuse angle is action. That's universal, it is primary.

- Janet Collins

topic: Peaceful, Lines, Action, Horizontal Lines, Vertical

Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.

- Georges Braque

topic: Oval, Thanks, Vertical, Horizontal

The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.

- Glenn Gould

topic: Past, Notes, Planes, Horizontal

It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony and rhythm, these basic forms of beauty, supplemented if necessary by other direct lines or curves, can become a work of art, as strong as it is true.

- Piet Mondrian

topic: Strong, Art, Curves, Horizontal Lines, Vertical

I don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying down.

- Truman Capote

topic: Lying, Writing, Thinking, Lying Down, Horizontal

Vertical and horizontal lines are the expression of two opposing forces; they exist everywhere and dominate everything; their reciprocal action constitutes 'life'. I recognized that the equilibrium of any particular aspect of nature rests on the equivalence of its opposites.

- Piet Mondrian

source: Piet Mondrian, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Washington Gallery of Modern Art (Washington, D.C.) (1965). “Piet Mondrian, 1872-1944: exhibition Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Washington Gallery of Modern Art”

topic: Expression, Opposites, Two, Horizontal Lines, Vertical

Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller, v. His yellow-grey eyes were horizontal. The V motif was picked up again by thickish brows rising outward from twin creases above a hooked nose, and his pale brown hair grew down--from high flat temples--in a point on his forehead. He looked rather pleasantly like a blond Satan.

- Dashiell Hammett

topic: Eye, Yellow, Hair, Chins, Grey Eyes

Since the background is as important as the subject, you mustn't let it default by chance. You must control not only vertical and horizontal, you must be aware of the depth of field (or lack of it) that you want in the background.

- Jay Maisel

topic: Important, Depth, Want, Depth Of Field, Horizontal

He did not feel the ground under his feet - he thrust himself into the capriole, rose high in the air-forelegs and hind legs horizontal. He soared above the ground, he head in jubilation. Conquering!

- Felix Salten

topic: Air, Feet, Rose, Jubilation, Thrust

The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth.

- Ella Maillart

topic: Running, Dying, Woven, Warp, Timelessness

My own movement of thought is not meant to be a straight point-to-point, linear line of march, but horizontal exploration from one area of interest to another. There is no ultimate destination - no finish line to cross, no final conclusion to be reached. It's the way I feel about dancing - you move around a lot, not to get somewhere, but to be somewhere in time.

- Robert Fulghum

topic: Moving, Dancing, Finals, Somewhere In Time, Horizontal

We live in an age where quantity is seen as preferable to quality, and many people tend to work in a horizontal line: next, next, next. But if you do that, you never investigate the vertical line - the depth of the piece.

- Simon McBurney

topic: People, Age, Quality, Horizontal Lines, Vertical

Tell them we'll be dancing, dancing 'til we drop, it's time to get down and do the Horizontal Bop.

- Bob Seger

topic: Dancing, Down And, Bops, Horizontal

Traditional horizontal search engines cannot always identify the target audience, niche or vertical industry of a page or site. Vertical search engines address this issue by the nature of their design. They identify sites according to more specific criteria and sometimes even by human input.

- Marc Ostrofsky

source: Marc Ostrofsky (2013). “Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

topic: Issues, Design, Target, Vertical, Search Engine

Our strategy is very horizontal. We're trying to build a social layer for everything. Basically we're trying to make it so that every app everywhere can be social whether it's on the web, or mobile, or other devices.

- Mark Zuckerberg

source: "Mark Zuckerberg On The "Facebook Phone"". Interview with Michael Arrington, techcrunch.com. September 22, 2010.

topic: Communication, Trying, Layers, Horizontal

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.

- Agnes Martin

topic: Art, Thinking, Hints, Horizontal Lines, Horizontal

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.

- Bono

topic: Jesus, Hands, Looks, Vertical, Horizontal

I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people.

- Eduardo Galeano

source: "Louder Than Bombs: Interviews from the Progressive Magazine" by David Barsamian, (p. 146), 2004.

topic: Believe, People, Charity, Horizontal

I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth and sky, matter and spirit. Vast open spaces speak best to this craving, the spaces I myself first found in the desert and then in the western grasslands.

- Rebecca Solnit

topic: Sky, Space, Desert, Social Relations, Open Spaces

Living is a horizontal fall.

- Jean Cocteau

source: Jean Cocteau (1990). “Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure”, Peter Owen Publishers

topic: Fall, Horizontal

In this world, time has three dimensions, like space. Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal, so an object may participate in three perpendicular futures. Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real. At every point of decision, the world splits into three worlds, each with the same people, but different fates for those people. In time, there are an infinity of worlds.

- Alan Lightman

source: Alan Lightman (2012). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.13, Hachette UK

topic: Real, Moving, Fate, Corresponding, Vertical

The essential thing is to etch movements in the sky, movements so still they leave no trace. The essential thing is simplicity. / That is why the long path to perfection is horizontal.

- Philippe Petit

topic: Sky, Perfection, Long, Horizontal

Do you play football?' Brandon asks. 'No.' 'Baseball?' 'Nope.' Brandon is on a roll and won't stop until he's found the answer he's looking for. 'Tennis?' 'That would be a nada' 'Then what sport do you play?' Carlos puts down his food. Oh, no. He's got a rebellious gleam in his eye as he says, 'The horizontal tango.' ...Alex stands and says through chlenched teeth, 'Carlos let's talk. In private. Ahora.' ....Brandon turns to my dad with big, innocent eyes. 'Daddy, do you know how to do the horizontal tango?

- Simone Elkeles

topic: Sports, Baseball, Football, Innocent Eyes, Horizontal

He is only happy when he can maintain himself - mentally and spiritually - at the intersection between a vertical line and horizontal one, in a state of perfect balance. For this, he needs to know where he is located every moment, both in his relationship to the divine and to his family here on earth. If he loses that balance, he loses his power.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.238, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Perfect, Balance, Needs, Perfect Balance, Horizontal

Daddy, What's the horizontal tango?

- Simone Elkeles

topic: Daddy, Tango, Horizontal

There are times when we suffer innocently at other people’s hands. When that occurs, we are victims of injustice. But that injustice happens on a horizontal plane. No one ever suffers injustice on the vertical plane. That is, no one ever suffers unjustly in terms of his or her relationship with God. As long as we bear the guilt of sin, we cannot protest that God is unjust in allowing us to suffer.

- R. C. Sproul

topic: Hands, Long, People, Horizontal

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

source: Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.79, New York Review of Books

topic: Inspirational, College, Thinking, College Life, Horizontal

Jack was mid-jump when I burst into my room. I snatched his ankle,flipping him horizontal.He crashed down hard to my bed and rolled off onto the floor. And laughed. "Let's do that again! But this time I'll jump even higher." "No! No,you won't! What are you going here?" He sat up on the floor and shrugged. "I was bored." "I don't care! I'm not your babysitter!" His blue eyes twinkled.Honestly, whose eyes actually twinkle? Then his face crumpled,his lower lip jutting out.He blinked his ridiculously long eyelashes at me. "I thought we were friends." "Oh,knock it off.

- Kiersten White

topic: Eye, Blue, Bored, Horizontal

But I am I now; and so many other millions are so irretrievably their own special variety of 'I' that I can hardly bear to think of it. I: how firm a letter; how reassuring the three strokes: one vertical, proud and assertive, and then the two short horizontal lines in quick, smug succession. The pen scratching on the paper…I…I…I…I…I…I.

- Sylvia Plath

source: Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.34, Anchor

topic: Thinking, Two, Special, Horizontal Lines, Vertical

The developing world can just do things that are extensive or horizontal, that basically copy. The developed world needs to do things that are intensive or vertical, where we take our civilization to the next level.

- Peter Thiel

topic: Civilization, World, Levels, Horizontal

In Christian terms, evangelization and humanization are not alternatives. Nor are the vertical dimension of faith and the horizontal dimension of love for ones neighbor and political change.

- Jürgen Moltmann

topic: Christian, Political, Alternatives, Political Change, Horizontal

And this is a table ma'am. What in essence it consists of is a horizontal rectilinear plane surface maintained by four vertical columnar supports, which we call legs. The tables in this laboratory, ma'am, are as advanced in design as one will find anywhere in the world.

- Michael Frayn

topic: Humorous, Essence, Support, Horizontal

The print is devised so that I can cut the dresses on the bias, so they work around the body. It's not like a regular print that you buy and ends up being a vertical and a horizontal placement. It works around the body.

- John Galliano

topic: Cutting, Dresses, Body, Horizontal

Essentially, the scripts are not that different. Let's say, in literary terms, it's the difference between writing horizontally and writing vertically. In live television, you wrote much more vertically. You had to probe people because you didn't have money or sets or any of the physical dimensions that film will allow you. So you generally probed people a little bit more. Film writing is much more horizontal. You can insert anything you want: meadows, battlefields, the Taj Mahal, a cast of thousands. But essentially, writing a story is writing a story.

- Rod Serling

source: Source: www.rodserling.com

topic: Writing, Differences, People, Literary Terms, Live Television

A horizontal or vertical line lacks energy, compared with one that deviates from either. The difference between these graphic expressions is the difference between movement and repose.

- Walter J. Phillips

topic: Differences, Expression, Movement, Horizontal

Whenever I got a new studio I made the largest possible painting, and since the ceiling was low, the painting became horizontal. As I changed studios and got larger spaces, I made bigger paintings.

- James Rosenquist

topic: Space, Ceilings, Painting, Horizontal

It's what I like to call the horizontal Jesus. Vertical Jesus are the songs that say 'Lord I love you, Lord I praise you, Lord I thank you' and horizontal is 'I'm in a situation. This is the problem. How can I apply that now horizontally?' There are more problems in the world because he's not being applied horizontally.

- Kirk Franklin

topic: Song, Jesus, Love You, Horizontal

If there is a reason for keeping the wall very quiet, choose a pattern that works all over without pronounced lines...Put very succinctly, architectural effect depends upon a nice balance of horizontal, vertical and oblique. No rules can say how much of each; so nothing can really take the place of feeling and good judgement.

- William Morris

topic: Wall, Nice, Judgement, Good Judgement, Horizontal

For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few people had experienced before – the succession and superimposition of views, the unfolding of landscape in flickering surfaces as one was carried swiftly past it, and an exaggerated feeling of relative motion (the poplars nearby seeming to move faster than the church spire across the field) due to parallax. The view from the train was not the view from the horse. It compressed more motifs into the same time. Conversely, it left less time in which to dwell on any one thing.

- Robert Hughes

topic: Horse, Moving, Past, Motifs, Horizontal

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things....but, there are times when we must stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or in its memory. We listen, and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

- James Carroll

topic: Spiritual, Memories, Moving, Horizontal

As we went through mach one, the nose started dropping, so we just cranked that horizontal stabilizer down to keep the nose up. We got it above mach one, and once we got it above the speed of sound, then you have supersonic flow over the whole airplane, so you have no more shock waves on it that are causing buffeting...You really don't think about the outcome of any kind of a flight, whether it's combat, or any other kinds of flights, because you really have no control over it.

- Chuck Yeager

source: "Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 1, 1991.

topic: Horizontal