Quotes About Curved

What'd they call it?" "An orchid." "Yeah, that's what it is." He walked over, squatted in the triple beam. "You wear it around your wrist. With the blades sticking out front. Like a bracelet." From an adjustable metal wrist-band, seven blades, from eight to twelve inches, curved sharply forward. There was a chain-and-leather harness inside to hold it steady on the fingers. The blades were sharpened along the outside.

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf.

I'm a Baroque person. More than Baroque, I'm a Rococo person. I don't draw straight lines.

Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.

Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.

The horizon curved upward to both sides. Not good, not right. Horizons do not curve up.

Several sailors, sheltered behind the curved bottoms of their boats, were watching this battle of the sky and the sea.

The hall's door was framed by a pair of vast curved bones that had come from some sea monster.

He was tall, and straight, with a lot of very thick, wild, white hair. In his grim brown face the nose curved fiercely, like a bent bow, and the eyes were deep-set and dark.

The natural world, on the other hand, is one of infinite varieties and complexities, a multidimensional world which contains no straight lines or completely regular shapes, where things do not happen in sequences, but all together; a world where—as modern physics tells us—even empty space is curved.

But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.

crooked finger,

Modern theoretical mathematicians frown at this and make haughty remarks such as But you are making the unwarranted assumption that the line is the same length when it is straight as when it was curved. I imagine the honest workman organizing the construction of the local temple, face with such an objection, would have solved matters by throwing the objector into the River Nile.

Horizontal lines provide a sense of quiet and peace. Vertical lines feel powerful, solid, and permanent. Diagonal lines are more dynamic, conveying movement and change. Straight lines feel formal, deliberate and manmade. Curved lines, especially S-shaped, feel casual and add sophistication, nature and grace. Leading lines draw your eye through the picture.

as round as the moon.

I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.

At the beach, college girls lay in groups on the sand around buckets of drinks, their bums curved up like fruits. Mine didn't do that.

The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God

What's wrong with you?" he demanded. A faint, taunting smile curved her soft mouth. "I'm dying. I think that's plain enough even for you to see.

They fell into the stars in a rush of air and ether. They breathed each other's breath. They had never been this close. It was all velocity and dream physics—no more need to stand or lean or fly, but only fall. They were both already fallen. They would never finish falling. The universe was endless, and love had its own logic. Their bodies curved together, pressed, and found their perfect fit.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.

Haar kuitspieren waren glad en gewelfd.

A maze of softly-lit slightly-curved beige hallways, all alike.