Angle Quotes - Page 9

• I'm not a writer who's preaching some particular philosophy or something but the big questions do concern me and I like to make my readers think and debate and argue with each other and look at some aspect of the world or some act of governance or war or power and have an angle they haven't considered before, and that's something I strive for and hopefully have accomplished.

  George R. R. Martin

  Philosophy, War, Thinking

  "EIBF 2014: George R.R. Martin on Game Of Thrones, writing". www.denofgeek.com. August 15, 2014.

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• A basketball diameter is 10 inches and a rim is 18 inches so I made a 14-inch rim I put in to practice on. Few people could do that because it was so frustrating that it drove everyone but me nuts. That led to me shooting very high, which basic physics tells you is the best angle - the hole is bigger from above than from the side.

  Dolph Schayes

  Basketball, Nuts, Practice

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• I am very determined when it comes to my music, and I grew up just loving those singers who had that urban sort of feeling. So when it came down to making my record, I wanted to have that as well. ForeFront was really good about letting me go in that direction and then of course adding the more pop sounds. I feel very fortunate that I got to explore some unique and creative angles musically.

  Stacie Orrico

  Unique, Creative, Feelings

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All golfers fear the one-iron. It has no angle, no loft. The one-iron is a confidence-crusher, a fear trip, an almost guarantee of shame, failure, dumbness and humiliation if you ever use it in public.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Golf, Iron, Guarantees

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• I worked out a book which I thought was just straight science fiction -- with everything pretty much explained, and suddenly I got an idea which I thought was kind of neat for working in a mythological angle. I'm really struggling with myself. It would probably be a better book if I include it, but on the other hand I don't always like to keep reverting to it. I think what I'm going to do is vary my output, do some straight science fiction and some straight fantasy that doesn't involve mythology, and composites.

  Roger Zelazny

  Struggle, Book, Thinking

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• Once I'd worked out that I couldn't possibly expect people to enjoy a monstrous, 3000-page book, I realised I could in fact create a labyrinth of a story with four different points of entry. But what interested me was creating something that would rearrange itself every time you read one of the other books. So depending on which order you read them, the implications and angles would change. To get that right, each one of the books had to have its own personality and texture -- even though they are connected, they are very different creatures.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Book, Order, Creating

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• London always reminds me of a brain. It is similarly convoluted and circuitous. A lot of cities, especially American ones like New York and Chicago, are laid out in straight lines. Like the circuits on computer chips, there are a lot of right angles in cities like this. But London is a glorious mess. It evolved from a score or so of distinct villages, that merged and meshed as their boundaries enlarged. As a result, London is a labyrinth, full of turnings and twistings just like a brain.

  James Geary

  New York, Cities, Brain

  "On London". jamesgeary.com. July 16, 2006.

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• London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness.

  China Mieville

  London, Emptiness, Endless

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• You must always be prepared. Make sure to look at things from all angles. If you are not prepared you will fail.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Looks, Failing, Be Prepared

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• I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.

  Izaak Walton

  Brother, Lakes, Sea

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 1

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• I ski very aggressively, and the angles that I create with my body are similar to some of the male racers.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Males, Body, Skis

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• I look at Woody Allen's prolific career of 30 or 40 films, and I'm watching the clock. I'd love to work at a clip of a film a year. We don't get the benefit of the doubt, particularly black women. We're presumed incompetent, whereas a white male is assumed competent until proven otherwise. They just think the guy in the ball hat and the T-shirt over the thermal has got it, whether he's got it or not. For buzzy first films by a white male, the trajectory is a 90-degree angle. For us, it's a 30-degree angle.

  Dee Rees

  Thinking, Years, Careers

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• Farmers are philosophical; they have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts. But there is another angle to their attitude. Things happen rapidly in the country; something new always comes along to divert them and it isn't necessarily another calamity.

  Ruth Stout

  Country, Attitude, Philosophical

  Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside

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• I want stuff to play as wide as possible. I want to be able to see... if I could play the whole thing in a master and it could be compelling enough, that'd be great. Then it simplifies my day, it simplifies life for the actors when you could just focus on that. But by the same token I don't want to be forced into coverage. So I want it to be as good from every angle and I need to get as many of the kind of shadings that I want from every angle.

  David Fincher

  Play, Focus, Want

  "Exclusive: David Fincher Talks ‘Social Network’, ‘Zodiac’, His Filmmaking Process, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 30, 2010.

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• Digital also had this evolution that came out of post-production. And George Lucas did it because he wanted to make a big movie with special effects. Sort of the opposite of what you'd think is an indie film. So it's coming from both these angles.

  Christopher Kenneally

  Thinking, Opposites, Special

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I just thought that a naked pregnant woman checking herself out would be so funny. I actually wish there was more of it. An actually, it was my idea to put it in, because I just remember being pregnant and just marveling at the hugeness of my body, like looking in the mirror from all angles. But that's something you do privately.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Mirrors, Ideas, Wish

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• I'm not a scientist, I was not a good science student, I felt effectively alienated from science throughout my young life, and it was only when I became an adult that I began to really appreciate from a completely different angle the power of science.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Appreciate, Adults, Different

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I think, though, that perspective-awareness may follow from a kind of speaking that also came into my work more recently - the "assay" poems (some labeled that, some not) that engage an abstraction or object from multiple angles.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Thinking, Perspective, May

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in each curve of an airfoil, in each angle between strut and wire, in the gap of a spark plug or the color of the exhaust flame. There was freedom in the unlimited horizon, on the open fields where one landed. A pilot was surrounded by beauty of earth and sky. He brushed treetops with the birds, leapt valleys and rivers, explored the cloud canyons he had gazed at as a child. Adventure lay in each puff of wind.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Children, Adventure, Flames

  Charles Lindbergh, “Untitled”

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• It follows at once from the last proposition that the centre of gravity of any triangle is at the intersection of the lines drawn from any two angles to the middle points of the opposite
  sides respectively.

  Archimedes

  Opposites, Two, Triangles

  Archimedes (2007). “The Works of Archimedes”, p.201, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from objective to subjective--and to any number of subjective points of view--and in so doing seem to pull the audience directly inside the frame of his picture, giving the spectator the sense of experiencing an action from the viewpoint of a participant. Identification of the viewer with the film character, then, can be much more intimate than the analogous situation in the theater.

  Ed Murray

  Character, Views, Numbers

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• Though we cannot SEE angles, we can INFER them, and this with great precision. Our sense of touch, stimulated by necessity, and developed by long training, enables us to distinguish angles far more accurately than your sense of sight, when unaided by a rule or measure of angles.

  Edwin A. Abbott

  Sight, Long, Training

  Edwin A. Abbott (2015). “Flatland”, p.21, Xist Publishing

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• Constructions of a-rhythmical forms, the clash between concrete and abstract forms... ...The acute angle is passionate and dynamic, expressing will and a penetrating force.

  Carlo Carra

  Passionate, Construction, Abstract

  "Piani plastici come espanzione sferica nello spazio" (March 1913), as quoted in "Futurism," Didier Ottinger (ed.), p. 146, 2008.

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• Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional?

  Prince Charles

  Curves, Design, Feelings

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• Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Men, Sticks, Bundles

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