Quotes by category:Squares

Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.

David Wilkerson

squares heart years

The walking tour guides one through the city's various landmarks, reciting bits of information the listener might find enlightening. I learned, for example, that in the late 1500s my little neighborhood square was a popular spot for burning people alive. Now lined with a row of small shops, the tradition continues, though in a figurative rather than literal sense.

David Sedaris

squares cities people

I have over five thousand costumes and props and cars, and I have a twenty-five thousand square foot warehouse full of memorabilia.

Debbie Reynolds

car squares feet

My face seems too square and my eyes too big, like I'm perpetually surprised, but there's nothing wrong with me that I can fix.

David Levithan

squares eye faces

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.

Dee Dee Myers

squares leader attitude

The influence of the Gang of Four should not be underrated, but it should be noted that 97 or 98 per cent of the population hate them intensely for their crimes. This was shown by the mass movement against the Gang of Four which erupted at Tiananmen Square on April 5, 1976, when the Gang were still riding high, Chairman Mao was critically ill and Premier Zhou had passed away.

Deng Xiaoping

riding hate squares

I want to get to the point where one day I don't have to have anything but a rug and a microphone stand on stage and still be able to sell out places like Madison Square Garden, like Bruce Springsteen does.

Demi Lovato

one-day garden squares

It's more about subtracting every single buck from the tourists that still flock there. Gentrification and the need for developers to maximize their profits from every square inch of the place means that there just aren't any scruffy little basement clubs left. Those scruffy little basement clubs were the areas lifeblood. Now, it's all penthouse flats and global brands. They destroyed the very thing that drew people there in the first place - it's superficial sleaziness.

Derek Ridgers

squares mean people

I love walking along Leiths waterfront and wandering around some of New Towns beautiful streets and squares, with their gorgeous Georgian architecture.

Dexter Fletcher

wandering-around squares beautiful

By this time, half the people in High Norland were gathered in Royal Square to stare at the castle. They all watched with disbelief as the castle rose slightly into the air and glided toward the road that led southward. It was hardly more than an alley, really. "It'll never fit!" people said. But the castle somehow squeezed itself narrow enough to drift away along it and out of sight. The citizens of High Norland gave it a cheer as it went.

Diana Wynne Jones

squares cheer sight

Twitter is a global town square.

Dick Costolo

towns squares

I sit in the sink (while applying makeup). I do. I've broken more sinks...I sit in the sink, on top of a big square sink in my bathroom with my feet in the basin so I'm very close to the mirror with the good light, and I'm very comfortable. I also manage to put my two phones in the sink so that nothing, but nothing, could get me out of there.

Diane von Furstenberg

makeup squares mirrors

I was born and I live in a small village, where the centre of life is the square, and the small bar/cafe.

Diego Della Valle

small-villages bars squares

The square is your friend. Behind every missed lay-up is a tale of the square neglected.

Digger Phelps

neglected tales squares

My sons are coming out with music. Square Off, they're called.

Doug E. Fresh

my-son squares son

Irrationality is the square root of all evil.

Douglas Hofstadter

squares roots evil

Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A. and see maybe ten thousand square miles of shopping malls, and you don't have maybe just the weentsiest inkling that something, somewhere has gone very very cuckoo?

Douglas Coupland

squares mean thinking

The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more than three feet square, we have the strongest craving

D.T. Suzuki

passion squares feet

The square root of 69 is 8(ate) som'

Drake

squares humble sex

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven.

E. M. Forster

squares heaven thinking