Quotes About Square

Tex Rickard started his career staging boxing matches for Nome's miners, then moved on to New York and built Madison Square Garden, becoming one

It was so full of light. The huge public square had what must be the Basilica at one end, topped with bulbous domes and covered with marble and mosaics. It was imposing and glorious and, yes, utterly beautiful.

Kai! There's been a palace revolution and the peasants are attacking!" Kai gave a deep shuddering sigh and finally opened his eyes properly. "Execute them all in the public square," he mumbled, clearly still half-asleep.

Canada is so square even the female impersonators are women.

There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square.

In other words, the diagonal of that square is irrational—and nowadays we recognize that number as the square root of two.

Birmingham City Council was playing third time lucky with the design of the city's celebrated Victoria Square . . .

A fact is immovable. That there are those who believe the world is square does not make the world less round.

they ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square of four locked trees which promised cooling; they flung themselves into the shade to taste their lip sweat and contemplate the wildness that had come upon them so suddenly

Give my regards to Broadway,Remember me to Herald Square,Tell all the gang at Forty-second StreetThat I will soon be there.

It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.

Harvard Square could feel like a party on a warm night, full of energy and privilege and promise. Or it could seem like one of the bleakest places on earth--an icy, windswept rat maze where kids wasted their youth clawing over one another in a fatuous contest for credentials.

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

So you're the reason Qhuinn was in such a bad mood tonight. It's got nothing to do with me. Qhuinn is usually in a bad mood. People going in the wrong direction will get like that. Round pegs just dont fit in square holes.

I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.

Where I've come from and my background, to fight at Madison Square Garden against the biggest name in boxing is unbelievable.

If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become wisdom just because you gussy it up with the Gospels.

Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you—either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.

There's an office?" I said. "I assumed your shadowy government entity had you working out of your car." "It's near Central Square. Carlton Street, about fifteen minutes' walk from the Apostolic Café. How's Chinese sound?" "Depends on the dialect." "Ha," he said without smiling. "Linguist humor. Pretty lame, Stokes.

From Boston to Bordeaux, revolution was in large measure the achievement of networks of wordsmiths, the best of whom were also orators whose shouted words could rally the crowd in the square and incite them to storm the towers of the old regime.

The pigeons are shitting on George M. Cohan. I shoo them off. They fly up and perch on his hat. Cohan would've never given his regards to Broadway if he saw how dirty they kept his statue in Duffy Square. New Yorkers walk right by. Nobody cares.

I love round tables. They suit me so much better than a square." Magnus, pg. 137

You want a round table meeting, we can have a round table meeting." "I love round tables," said Magnus brightly. "They suit me so much better than square.

Biffi said it was more American on an air force base in Crete than it was in Times Square.