Quotes about diagonal (12 Quotes)


    I hadn't, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my cheeks. They seemed touching, and rather spectacular, and I thought I would carry them around with me, like the relic of a dead lover, till they wore off of their own accord.



    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.

    You assemble a very large site, then you put all the box stores on the outside and in the middle you create this main street lifestyle village with parallel or diagonal parking. One of the tricks is to make it look like it was built over time so it's part of an organic market rather than just building it in one fell swoop with everything looking the same.


    Arnie is going to be that link player who can play the long diagonal ball from midfield or play quick possession passes to set up the front runners. Arnie has a deep package of skills and experience, and she is a player who is ready to explode onto the college scene. A few injuries have kept her under the radar, but I expect her to be a key ingredient in the Hoosiers' future success.

    If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it.

    He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.


    I must express increasing concern over the continuing deterioration of the Schoharie Dam. Increasingly serious diagonal cracking in the valve chamber tower, and sagging of the concrete ceiling of the access gallery may indicate settling of that structure.

    There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.




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