#square

Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls. ↗

— Jules Verne

#base #called #eighty #embraces #everybody

The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky. ↗

— Shana Alexander

#graceful #series #sky #squares #steel

So here we have pi squared, which an engineer would call 10. ↗

— Frank King

#engineer #here #squared #which #would

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#city #many #markets #other #places

So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#american #bush #control #crowd #day

Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#few #in the past #music #past #square

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

And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#back #benches #blue #coming #i

I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#certain #certain way #drape #fabric #feel

At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#acting #done #fifties #getting #homework