Squares Quotes

• Being a square keeps you from going around in circles.

  J. Vernon McGee

  Circles, Going Around In Circles

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• Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

  Aldous Huxley

  Social, Holes, Dangerous

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• The square is not a subconscious form. It is the creation of intuitive reason. The face of the new art. The square is a living, regal infant. The first step of pure creation in art.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Art, Faces, Firsts

  "From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: The New Realism in Painting". Essay by Kazimir Malevich, November 1915.

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• Success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

  Michelle Obama

  Honesty, Shortcuts, Honest And Integrity

  Democratic National Convention Speech, www.npr.org. September 04, 2012.

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• A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Men, Blood

  Speech, Springfield, Ill., 4 July 1903 See Theodore Roosevelt 12

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• You're so square, baby, I don't care.

  Elvis Presley

  Baby, Quality, Care

  Song: (Your're So Square) Baby I Don't Care, 1957

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• The perfect square lacks corners.

  Laozi

  Perfect, Taoism, Corners

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• Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

  Walter Isaacson

  Change, Success, Meaningful

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

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• The whole quilt is much more important than any single square.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Quilts, Important, Whole

  FaceBook post by Rohinton Mistry from Mar 25, 2012

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• Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he's a human calculator. He says it's a skill he learned as a kid. Now he's a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.

  Bill Nye

  Art, Kids, Math

  "Bill Nye: Cell phones aren't making us dumb". Interview with Wilson Rothman, www.nbcnews.com. March 23, 2010.

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• Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.

  Walt Whitman

  Thinking Of You, Sunshine, Thinking About You

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• My goals were small. My goal was to become a big enough stand-up that I wouldn't have to do radio. I could sell out a club, which is like 300 seats. If I got big enough, I could sell before I got there, and I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning to do radio. That was pretty much the dream. I had no idea I'd be playing Madison Square Garden or anything.

  Chris Rock

  Dream, Morning, Garden

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• He’s not your typical prince, more like a square peg in a round hole, kind of like me. He’s the sort of guy who wouldn’t mind reading side by side on a date.

  Jodi Picoult

  Reading, Guy, Mind

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• You can say anything with a Post-It. I’m not entirely sure why that is. Maybe the friendliness of the squares makes it easier. A square is nicely compact and less intimidating than a full page. And they come in cheerful colors. Non-white paper is kind of inherently festive. Or maybe paper that sticks feels more important than paper that can blow away. (Though you can move them, if you need to put them somewhere else.) They might not be as lasting as words carved in stone, but Post-It thoughts will stay. For awhile, at least.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Moving, Blow, Color

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• Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is being moved to a new square on the board of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Chess Pieces

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• A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

  Mark Twain

  Leadership, Time, Inspiration

  Mark Twain (2014). “Following The Equator”, p.638, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The amount of quaint, authentic, rustic charm varies inversely with the pounds per square inch of water pressure in the shower.

  Frank Mankiewicz

  Water, Pounds, Modern Life

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• I always loved twilight: it was the only time of day I had the feeling that something important could happen. All things were more beautiful bathed in twilight, all streets, all squares, and all the people walking through them; I even had the feeling that I was a handsome young man, and I liked looking at myself in the mirror, watching myself in the shop windows as I strode along, and even when I touched my face, I felt no wrinkles at my mouth or forehead.

  Bohumil Hrabal

  Beautiful, Twilight, Men

  Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently - they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• When, in the year 1913, in my desperate attempt to free art from the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the square form and exhibited a picture which consisted of nothing more than a black square on a white field, the critics and, along with them, the public sighed: 'Everything which we loved is lost. We are in a desert .... Before us is nothing but a black square on a white background!'

  Kazimir Malevich

  White, Black, Desert

  "The Non-Objective World: The Manifesto of Suprematism". Book by Kasimir Malevich, Courier Corporation, p. 68, 2003.

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• You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war. Some say that we were brought to the verge of war. Of course we were brought to the verge of war. The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art... If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. We've had to look it square in the face... We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face. We took strong action.

  John Foster Dulles

  Running, Art, Strong

  In Life 16 Jan. 1956

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• The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling.

  Laozi

  Wise, Men, Honest

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• We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

  Galileo Galilei

  Education, Numbers, Statistics

  Galileo Galilei (2010). “Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences”, p.32, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I'm beat to the square, and square to the beat, and that's my vocation.

  William Everson

  Hipster, Beats, Vocation

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• In right-angled triangles the square on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares on the sides containing the right angle.

  Euclid

  Science, Triangles, Sides

  Euclid, Phillips (1826). “Elements of Geometry, Containing the First Six Books of Euclid”, p.41

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