#square

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#beautiful #beautiful city #city #cut #down

I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings. ↗

— Chuck Close

#bigger #color #colors #could #did

How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it. ↗

— Henry George

#how #inch #man #right #said

The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present. ↗

— Lane Kirkland

#number #people #present #rises #square

The real intimidating stuff is the scene where you show up for the first day. You kind of square off, and that is where you look each other in the eye. ↗

— Ron Livingston

#each #eye #first #intimidating #kind

The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful. ↗

— Carson McCullers

#freedom from #humiliation #love #opposed #root

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue. ↗

— Woody Allen

#comedy #confronts #dessert #drama #just

No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square. ↗

— Louise Bogan

#hidden #lousy #more #pronouncements #square

I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances. ↗

— Roy Rogers

#did #finished #good #guy #high

A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#adverse #between #directly #ending #front