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  • Traditional horizontal search engines cannot always identify the target audience, niche or vertical industry of a page or site. Vertical search engines address this issue by the nature of their design. They identify sites according to more specific criteria and sometimes even by human input. -- Marc Ostrofsky
  • Vertical search engines that match your business, service or products with a target market offer you a higher conversion rate than traditional search engines. Because they have already qualified their interest by coming to a search engine with a specific focus, searchers will be more receptive to targeted advertising. -- Marc Ostrofsky
  • Vertical lift-up politics rather than horizontal left-right. -- Mike Huckabee
  • Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars. -- Robert Bly
  • The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored. -- James MacDonald
  • I did my first Broadway play, 'The Vertical Hour,' in 2006, with Julianne Moore, who's always been one of my favorite actresses. My scene was with her, so it was nerve-racking. -- Rutina Wesley
  • Church leaders raised on rationalism lead ministries where the supernatural, the Vertical, is suppressed and where God Himself is at best an observer and certainly seldom, if ever, and obvious participant in church. -- James MacDonald
  • Vertical and horizontal lines are the expression of two opposing forces; they exist everywhere and dominate everything; their reciprocal action constitutes 'life'. I recognized that the equilibrium of any particular aspect of nature rests on the equivalence of its opposites. -- Piet Mondrian
  • Vertical attention is not the same as, and doesn't evolve from nor imply, hierarchy. We could say that hierarchy is associated with power, and vertical attention with longing for the Divine Feminine, for the Divine Masculine, for what the Sufis call 'wine.' -- Robert Bly
  • The Roman Catholic Church early on simply adapted the hierarchical structure of the Roman Empire and confused the whole thing. Vertical attention and hierarchy were so entangled, that when the French killed the king during the Revolution, they lost much of their vertical attention too. -- Robert Bly
  • New York is vertical - all skyscrapers. -- Tony Scott
  • Who owns the NY Post? 20th Century Fox. Talk about vertical integration. -- Joe Pantoliano
  • Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture. -- Leon Krier
  • Someone once told me that being in the closet is like living in a vertical casket. Perfect description. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
  • The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes. -- Tom Robbins
  • Nest is one vertical implementation of a set of smart products for the home. But we will support other people's smart products for the home. -- Sundar Pichai
  • The more you densify a city, the more congestion will increase, however technology changes... cities so packed that they will no longer function... vertical sprawl. -- Leon Krier
  • The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth. -- Ella Maillart
  • New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable - but certainly surmountable. -- Jerry Saltz
  • In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics. -- George Stigler
  • Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary structures have a built-in safety factor for the vertical component; that is, gravity. -- Charles Francis Richter
  • Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical. -- Tullian Tchividjian
  • I vertically center things in tables a lot, and the fact that there is no way to control vertical positioning in divs affects the way we do things across the board. -- Mike Davidson
  • The skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan - a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and crown - has remained remarkably consistent throughout the history of this building type. -- Martin Filler
  • A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject. -- James Wolcott
  • When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see. -- Josef Albers
  • Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement. -- Elon Musk
  • The great seats of power tend to be wide and open, not vertical and soaring. Red Square, Tiananmen Square, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin - all massive but with large open spaces that project an image of might. -- Gary Ross
  • I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one. -- Donald Barthelme
  • As a melody instrument player, it's all about getting from one note to the next, and those intervals and how you navigate your way through these vertical structures of chords. You realize that everything's moving forward, and it's all linear. -- David Sanborn
  • Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the same form. We use different tools, but we get the job done. I'm completely in love with CGI. It's great for conveying a cartoonist's sense of reality. -- Frank Miller
  • But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross. -- Bono
  • I was attracted to the concept of Hollywood and the lifestyle here. But I've grown to mistrust it because it has changed. I didn't bargain for digital access parking in some concrete structure. Real heaven for me was to drive somewhere and park right in front. Now the city is going vertical. -- Edward Ruscha
  • When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world. -- Yves Rossy
  • A suburban mall turned vertical. -- Paul Goldberger
  • Charity, vertical, humiliates. Solidarity, horizontal, helps. -- Eduardo Galeano
  • The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being. -- e. e. cummings
  • The human comedy begins with a vertical smile. -- Richard Condon
  • Prague is like a vertical Venice steps everywhere. -- Penelope Gilliatt
  • Dancing is a vertical interpretation of a horizontal intention. -- Fred Astaire
  • Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds. -- Le Corbusier
  • Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy. -- Andy Hargreaves
  • At my age, any day above ground and vertical is a good day. -- Anthony Hopkins
  • I won't consider getting horizontal with someone I can barely tolerate when we're vertical. -- Nora Roberts
  • There's a real opportunity to have a vertical takeoff and landing electric supersonic jet. -- Elon Musk
  • There is no I in Team, unless you count the vertical part of the T. -- Demetri Martin
  • Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical. -- Georges Braque
  • Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one -- W. H. Auden
  • It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon. -- Ernst Mayr
  • Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat. -- Patti Smith
  • I love to read about the exploits of technical mountain climbers, but I've never done any vertical climbing. -- Will Hobbs
  • Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing. -- Robert Bly
  • The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness. -- Hans Arp
  • The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
  • Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences. -- Aaron Levie
  • There's a quality we could call vertical attention, which is an attention upward toward ancestors, spiritual states, angels, gods. -- Robert Bly
  • The acceptance of vertical differentiation with the built-in principle of self-determination must apply on as many levels as possible. -- P. W. Botha
  • In the spiritual life, you must take one step forward each day in a vertical line, from the bottom up. -- Pio of Pietrelcina
  • A vertical line is dignity. The horizontal line is peaceful. The obtuse angle is action. That's universal, it is primary. -- Janet Collins
  • Dallas Mavericks want me as a bald-headed 5' 8" guard with a 95" vertical. Vince Carter respect my legs, ask Shawn Kemp. -- Kool Keith
  • I sometimes think about the tower at Pisa as the first particle accelerator, a (nearly) vertical linear accelerator that Galileo used in his studies. -- Leon M. Lederman
  • Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that gratitude desperately. -- Robert Bly
  • There are very few adults in our culture able to imagine any genuine life coming from the vertical plane - tradition, religion, or devotion. -- Robert Bly
  • Nest is one vertical implementation of a set of smart products for the home. But we will support other peoples smart products for the home. -- Sundar Pichai
  • A horizontal or vertical line lacks energy, compared with one that deviates from either. The difference between these graphic expressions is the difference between movement and repose. -- Walter J. Phillips
  • In Christian terms, evangelization and humanization are not alternatives. Nor are the 'vertical dimension' of faith and the 'horizontal dimension' of love for one's neighbor and political change. -- Jurgen Moltmann
  • But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty of the eye can be enjoyed. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • In Christian terms, evangelization and humanization are not alternatives. Nor are the vertical dimension of faith and the horizontal dimension of love for ones neighbor and political change. -- Jürgen Moltmann
  • It is really important for us that people understand what the strategy is and that the real approach is to make everything social, not to build a vertical approach. -- Mark Zuckerberg
  • The outer purpose belongs to the horizontal dimension of space and time; the inner purpose concerns a deepening of your Being in the vertical dimension of the timeless Now. -- Eckhart Tolle
  • Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only through the portal of the present moment. -- Eckhart Tolle
  • A lot of the players I'm with, thank God, we're all still vertical. We've lost so many great players through the years, and we're still standing, as Elton John says. -- Ringo Starr
  • I think that this performance with the Thingamajigs is going to be an exploration of the acoustic space and particularly the vertical space, which we don't think about so much. -- Pauline Oliveros
  • Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God. -- Ann Voskamp
  • I think if you look at the commonalities between eBay, PayPal and OpenTable, all three are businesses that built a network in a vertical. Network effect businesses are very attractive businesses. -- Jeff Jordan
  • With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed up to those who were decision-makers. -- Richard Ben-Veniste
  • The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft. -- Abe Ajay
  • Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • The vertical thinker says: 'I know what I am looking for.' The lateral thinker says: 'I am looking but I won't know what I am looking for until I have found it.' -- Edward de Bono
  • Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional? -- Prince Charles
  • Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all. -- Margaret Atwood
  • I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the mountains, and there's a vertical sense and a desert light that you can see forever. -- Dan Gilroy
  • We cannot take a single step toward heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up. -- Simone Weil
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