Squares Quotes

A square egg in a dish of lentils won't make a marrow bend with the wind, nor will it make rhubarb grow up the milkmaid's leg.

The square is to us what the cross was to the early Christians.

Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.

Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.

Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square?

The integrity of China was more important than [the people] in Tiananmen Square.

Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the . that squares with the facts, and with the historical record

I take square aim at an unbiblical churchianity that has resulted in a church-centric religion that fails to reflect the heart of God for people.

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.

You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.

We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting.

I feel New York is too crazy for me, especially when you go to Times Square.

Corporations no longer try to fit square pegs into round holes; they just fit them into square cubicles.

You're so square, baby, I don't care.

LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.

If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be.

I'm proud to be an Oakie from Muskogee, a place where even squares can have a ball. We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse and white lightning's still the biggest thrill of all.

I've always been into taking my photos, cropping them square, putting them through a filter in Photoshop.

Bobby just drops the pieces and they fall on the right squares

There's a famous saying: "If you pass the square ball in your own defensive third it must not be intercepted."

I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless.

Washington D.C. is about 300 square miles surrounded by realty.

We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.

What happens if you start drawing squares? Well, I'd say the answer to that is, don't get famous for drawing circles.

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

Better a square foot of New York than all the rest of the world in a lump - better a lamppost on Broadway than the brightest star in the sky.

Death isn't enough. It doesn't remove the stain. But a slap, a whiplash, square on the face, does. Because a man's face is as sacred as his mother or his wife.

When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.

But then I have always been somewhat of a square peg in a round hole.

Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin.

The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more than three feet square, we have the strongest craving

Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.

We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.

To get squares you have to give up squares.

The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn.

I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.

The labor unions shall have a square deal, and the corporations shall have a square deal, and in addition, all private citizens shall have a square deal.

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

In a rook and pawn ending, the rook must be used aggressively. It must either attack enemy pawns, or give active support to the advance of one of its own pawns to the queening square.

Performance should be made square with promise.

Try square dancing-at least long enough to no longer feel silly and begin to have fun.

The perfect square lacks corners.

In the Far East, we look at life in terms of circles. In the West, they look at life more in terms of squares and rectangles.

The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.

We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.

When I first went to America in 1928, there were spittoons everywhere. I remember avoiding spit as it flew past me in Times Square. Very unattractive.