Cones Quotes

• Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Clouds, Circles, Mountain

  Michael Frame, Benoit Mandelbrot (2002). “Fractals, Graphics, and Mathematics Education”, p.150, Cambridge University Press

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• I crave a cone of silence every once in while.

  Laura Linney

  Silence, Crave

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• Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Time, Funny Life, Adversity

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• My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that.

  Erik Estrada

  Couple, Hands, Years

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• The majority of human beings live their whole lives unaware that they are only seeing a limited cone of vision at any moment.

  David Eagleman

  Vision, Majority, Moments

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.31, Vintage

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• Good fences make good neighbors.

  Robert Frost

  Alaska, Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder, Mind Your Own Business

  "MendingWall" l. 25 (1914)

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• He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors.

  Robert Frost

  Apples, Tree, Neighbor

  "MendingWall" l. 25 (1914)

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• You really do hate me, don't you? I mean, destroying someone's ice-cream cone? That's vicious." Her cheeks reddened. "I didn't see you there. Honestly." She wiped at his shirt more frantically, as if she could prevent it from staining if she rubbed hard enough. "Oh, now I see your plan, and it's far more devious than I thought." Daniel smirked. "You were looking for an excuse to grope me.

  Amanda Hocking

  Hate, Mean, Ice Cream

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• Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's cone of vision, while standing in the right place at the right time. Like chess, or writing, it is a matter of choosing from among given possibilities, but in the case of photography the number of possibilities is not finite but infinite.

  John Szarkowski

  Photography, Writing, Numbers

  William Eggleston, John Szarkowski (2002). “William Eggleston's Guide”

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• Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.

  Paul Cezanne

  Perspective, Sides, Spheres

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• Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.

  James H. Cone

  His Love, Holy, Rejects

  James H. Cone (1970). “A Black Theology of Liberation”, p.74, Orbis Books

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• I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  My Friends, Drunkenness, Calcifer

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.

  Denise Levertov

  Flower, Night, Doors

  Denise Levertov (1998). “Sands of the Well”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

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• I am the MacGyver of cooking. If you bring me a piece of bread, cabbage, coconut, mustard greens, pigs feet, pine cones...and a woodpecker, I'll make you a good chicken pot pie.

  Si Robertson

  Feet, Pie, Pigs

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• Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions.

  Charles Jencks

  Running, Numbers, Sunflower

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• Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.

  Paul Cezanne

  Spheres, Cylinders, Form

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• Photography is choosing where to point your eye-cone.

  John Szarkowski

  Photography, Eye

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• Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips and cry- Men with tired eyes realize it now, and wait to deform and decay- with maybe they have the power of love yet in their hearts just the same, I just don't know what that word means anymore- All I want is an ice cream cone

  Jack Kerouac

  Eye, Tired, Heart

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• You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Ice Cream, Wings, Want

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• My theory is that if you buy an ice-cream cone and make it hit your mouth, you can learn to play tennis. If you stick it on your forehead, your chances aren't as good.

  Vic Braden

  Ice Cream, Play, Tennis

  "Vic Braden, Tennis’s Pied Piper, Dies at 85" by Douglas Martin, www.nytimes.com. October 7, 2014.

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• Then the sun broke above the crest of the hills and the entire countryside looked soaked in blood, the arroyos deep in shadow, the cones of dead volcanoes stark and biscuit-colored against the sky. I could smell pinion trees, wet sage, woodsmoke, cattle in the pastures, and creek water that had melted from snow. I could smell the way the country probably was when it was only a dream in the mind of God.

  James Lee Burke

  Dream, Country, Volcanoes

  James Lee Burke (2007). “Jesus Out to Sea: Stories”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.

  Paul Cezanne

  Spheres, Cylinders, Term

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• Um, there's a girl meeting her friend,' he went on. 'Her friend is giving her an ice-cream cone. Oh-it's dripping. Huh. It, uh, dripped on her...chest.' Iggy drew in a hissing breath. It's gonna stain for sure,' the Gasman said. 'That's chocolate.' Hmm,' Fang said, watching, the girl dab at her chest with a paper napkin.

  James Patterson

  Girl, Ice Cream, Giving

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• In arriving at the relevant theory about the specifics of our faculty of vision we will presumably use our eyes to gather relevant data. Based on such data we come to know about the optic nerve, the structure of our eyes, the rods and cones, etc., so as to explain how it is that vision gives us reliable access to the shapes and colors of objects around us. In reliably arriving at that theory we thus exercise the very faculty whose reliability is explained by the theory. There is no vice in this sort of circularity.

  Ernest Sosa

  Eye, Exercise, Color

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed with the eye of a magnifying glass seem a Lilliputian frieze of psychedelic silhouettes.

  Duane Michals

  Flower, Eye, Circles

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