Famous quotes with Straight lines

• I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones.

  Max Beckmann
• It's kind of like trying to make straight lines from curves, but involving shapes that sort of dictate what the curves are, if you like, and the difference between two separate pieces creates a third transitional piece if you like.

  Sean Booth
• Everything you've learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.

  Richard Buckminster Fuller
• "Am I reading too much into all that innuendo, or did you in fact just connive to assassinate Gregor in one breath, offer to cuckold him in the next, accuse your father of homosexuality, suggest a patricidal plot against him, and league yourself with Cavilo -- what are you going to do for an encore?" "Depends on the straight lines."

  Lois McMaster Bujold
• The trouble is, that's not easy when you have been taught as I was, for example, that things in the past happened in straight-forward lines.None of these guys did anything by themselves; they borrowed from other people's work.This makes you think in straight lines. And if today doesn't happen in straight lines -- think of your own experience -- why should the past have?

  James Burke (science historian)

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