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Imaginary time is a new dimension, at right angles to ordinary, real time. -- Stephen Hawking
The older lives like not to be stood in rows or at right angles. -- W. H. Auden
Who says I like right angles? These are not my laws, these are not my rules. -- Ani DiFranco
Almost everything looks the same at art fairs - very hygienic, very white, lots of right angles. -- Casey Neistat
I was made at right angles to the world and I see it so. I can only see it so. -- Elizabeth Bishop
Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth. -- Bill Nye
The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible. -- Galen Rowell
I should almost therefore put forward the proposal that the third hypothsis (angle sum of a triangle less than two right angles) holds on the surface of an imaginary sphere. -- Johann Heinrich Lambert
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
All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial. -- Martin Filler
Balance of light is the problem, not the amount. Balance between shadows and highlights determines where the emphasis goes in the picture...make sure the major light in a picture falls at right angles to the camera. -- Elliott Erwitt
That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines makes the interior angles on the same side less than two right angles, the two straight lines, if produced indefinitely, meet on that side on which the angles are less than two right angles. -- Euclid
If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it. -- Lawrence Hargrave
I don't believe in right-angled turning points. -- Timothy West
Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man. -- Oscar Niemeyer
I keep both of my Tonys on my mantle. They're in front of a mirror so if you look at just the right angle, it looks like I have four! -- Swoosie Kurtz
For us tall people, the whole key is that your hips and your knees should form a right angle when you sit down. That's where backs and hips get to be problems for big guys. -- Phil Jackson
I'm quite lucky in that at certain angles I look all right, and at others I don't look so good, which enables me to play some leading roles and some stranger, more 'character'-type parts. I wouldn't say I'm the conventional handsome Hollywood leading man. -- Tom Riley
Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green. -- Jack Nicklaus
I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful. -- David Chipperfield
Amateur wrestling, you can go by instinct. Pro wrestling, you have to memorize, and you have to go by what moves you said you were going to do. Sometimes you have to feel the crowd and do the moves at the right time and know the timing and tell a good story. -- Kurt Angle
I have a scar on my left thigh, kind of almost near my knee. I essentially fell in the 2002 Olympics and when I hit the wall - because of the impact - my right leg kind of came in at like a knife-type angle and stabbed my leg with my own skate blade. -- Apolo Ohno
I feel that the Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenry. This not for someone who's in the military. This is not for law enforcement. This is for us. And, in fact, when you read that Constitution and the Founding Fathers, they intended this to stop tyranny. -- Sharron Angle
I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave. -- Laura Haddock

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