#horizontal

Life is a horizontal fall. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#horizontal #life #life is a

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

#always #bending #cord #downwards #fine

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

#dying #earth #horizontal #into #power

Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the same form. We use different tools, but we get the job done. I'm completely in love with CGI. It's great for conveying a cartoonist's sense of reality. ↗

— Frank Miller

#cgi #completely #conveying #different #done

My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that. ↗

— Richard Powers

#bed #been #closest #doing #dream

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#desire #expression #horizontal #perpendicular

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling. ↗

— Tina Brown

#because #business #collaborative #dependent #horizontal

The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material more or less varied, which almost all contain innumerable products of the sea. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

#areas #contain #depths #dig #especially

When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see. ↗

— Josef Albers

#also #came #changes #curved #go

There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above. ↗

— Fay Wray

#clothes #horizontal #kong #never #only