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Quotes About Square

there were no individual beds at all, but great square piers stacked three high, and wedged side by side, and end to end with only an occasional narrow aisle slicing through.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire.
~ W.H. Auden
In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square.
~ Philip Yancey
I have already crossed the café a couple of times and have looked out the front door onto the invisible square, and each time the wall of darkness has driven back inside this sort of illuminated limbo suspended between the two darknesses, the bundle of tracks and the foggy city.
~ Italo Calvino
A little later, Raimbaut reins his horse in the town square. "Have you seen a knight pass?" "Which? Two have passed and you're the third." "One rushing after the other." "Is it true one isn't a man?" "The second is a woman." "And the first?" "Nothing." "What about you?" "Me? I'm . . . I'm a man." "Thanks be to God!
~ Italo Calvino
The virtual world is a 'public square' much more vast than Tiananmen Square. And you can't send in the tanks to crush the netizens.
~ Jared Cohen
Fox News is a virtual public square for conservatives.
~ Brian Stelter
The two men emerged from the narrow street into the open square in front of Notre-Dame Basilica, weaving around tourists taking photographs of themselves in front of the cathedral. When looked at years from now, they'd see the magnificent structure, and a whole lot of sweaty people in shorts and sundresses wilting in the scorching heat as the sun throbbed down on the cobblestones.
~ Louise Penny
Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire.
~ W. H. Auden
Zip! Back to the mansion. Zip! to Market Square. Zip! and there was the castle yet again. She was getting the hang of it. Zip! Here was Upper Folding—but how did you stop? Zip! "Oh, confound it!" Sophie cried, almost in Marsh Folding again.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
What was merely an uncomfortable experience was deemed torture by many in the public square. Spend some time in the company of ISIS or the Taliban if you want a lesson in real torture.
~ Unknown
Another thing I said to Caliban the other day-we were listening to Jazz- I said, don't you just dig this? And he says, in the garden. I said he was so square he was hardly credible. Oh, that, he said. Like rain, endless dreary rain. Color-killing.
~ John Fowles
A round house keeps snakes away because it makes no shadows where snakes can hide," Tjikuu says. "Herero who build square houses like white people are foolish. Round houses bring good luck. They're like nature.
~ Mari Serebrov
Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.
~ Richard Benner
one of the most strenuous centres of human industry and activity and the cradle of our great liberties. Such as it was yesterday—alas, that I cannot say, such as it is to-day!—this square, with the enormous but unspeakably harmonious mass of those market-buildings, at once powerful and graceful, wild, gloomy, proud, yet genial, was one of the most wonderful and perfect spectacles that could be seen in any town on this old earth of ours.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
I ever loved to see everything upon the square.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
A square tower with four big guns would be very costly,
~ Unknown
It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
~ Pete Rose
Wisdom calls out in the street, she lifts her voice in the square;
~ Proverbs 1:20