Parallelogram Quotes

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  • I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.

  • The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides.

    Archimedes, Sir Thomas Little Heath (2002). “The Works of Archimedes”, p.194, Courier Corporation
  • The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything

    Science   Swag   House  
    'Literary Lapses' (1910) 'Boarding-House Geometry'
  • Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.

    Sick   Choices   Actors  
  • My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.

    Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.21, BoD – Books on Demand
  • We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

    Love   Life   Truth  
    Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

    Queens   Dresses   Want  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.

    Friendship   Real   Men  
    Clarence Day (2017). “This Simian World”, p.11, Litres
  • Who can tell whether the parallelogram, which in our ignorance we have defined and drawn, and the whole of whose properties we profess to know, may not be all the while panting for exterior angles, sympathetic with the interior, or sullenly repining at the fact that it cannot be inscribed in a circle?

    Ignorance   Circles   May  
    The Dynamics of a Parti-cle (1865)
  • Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.

    Bill O'Reilly (2002). “The No Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America”, p.7, Three Rivers Press
  • If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.

    Beauty   Women   Math  
    Jonathan Swift (1826). “Gulliver's Travels”
  • But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and direction and to combine according to the parallelogram law; and many of them are not at all reminiscent of journeys.

    Banesh Hoffmann (2012). “About Vectors”, p.8, Courier Corporation
  • One can't help thinking, Daddy, what a colourless life a man is forced to lead, when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian point and hand embroidery and Irish crochet are to him mere empty words. Whereas a woman- whether she is interested in babies or microbes or husbands or poetry or servants or parallelograms or gardens or Plato or bridge- is fundamentally and always interested in clothes.

    Baby   Plato   Husband  
    Jean Webster (2002). “Daddy-Long-Legs”, p.97, Courier Corporation
  • Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

  • The vision shared by both [French utopian] Charles Fourier and Robert Owen was for an entire town to fit into one structure. Owen's design for what he called a "parallelogram" was essentially to have a whole city in one building, laid out around a huge quadrangle. Fourier's scheme was to build a massive Versailles-like structure that he called a "phalanstery." In both cases they had these architectural dreams that we now recognize as pretty unappealing.

    Dream   Cities   Design  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.

  • If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.

    Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.3, Simon and Schuster
  • To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

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