Top 190 Vertical Quotes & Sayings

Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.

Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.

New York is vertical - all skyscrapers.

I was 270 lbs with a 48-inch vertical, benching 500 pounds, running a 4.5, 4.6.

I won't consider getting horizontal with someone I can barely tolerate when we're vertical.

As we begin to have landings on the moon, we can alternate those with vertical launch of similar crew modules on similar launch vehicles for vertical-launch tourism in space, if you want to call it that... adventure travel.

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

A suburban mall turned vertical.

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.

We believe in a best-in-class vertical strategy, with PR at the center as its operating ethos of earned at the core, social by design.

The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.

When there is no thought. no desire, no ambition, in that state of no-mind truth descends in you - or ascends in you. As far as the dimension of truth is concerned both are the same, because in the world of the innermost subjectivity height and depth mean the same. It is one dimension: the vertical dimension. Mind moves horizontally, no-mind exists vertically. The moment the mind ceases to function - that's what meditation is all about: cessation of the mind, total cessation of the mind - your consciousness becomes vertical; depth and height are yours.

Someone once told me that being in the closet is like living in a vertical casket. Perfect description.

There are very few adults in our culture able to imagine any genuine life coming from the vertical plane - tradition, religion, or devotion.

I found New York too... 'vertical,' closed off, I didn't feel the muse like I did in L.A. Maybe it's the weather?

Charity, vertical, humiliates. Solidarity, horizontal, helps.

In the spiritual life, you must take one step forward each day in a vertical line, from the bottom up.

The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film.

The message growth rate in Brazil - it's not like a hockey stick: it's like a vertical line.

There is no I in Team, unless you count the vertical part of the T.

Who owns the NY Post? 20th Century Fox. Talk about vertical integration.

'Vert' is, like, straight to the top, like a vertical leap.

Just why is Yosemite climbing so different ? Why does it have techniques, ethics and equipment all of its own ? The basic reason lies in the rock itself. Nowhere else in the world is the rock so exfoliated, so glacier-polished and so devoid of handholds. All of the climbing lines follow vertical crack systems. Every piton crack, every handhold is a vertical one. Special techniques and equipment have evolved through absolute necessity.

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.

With vertical thinking one may look for different approaches until one finds a promising one. With lateral thinking one goes on generating as many approaches as one can even after one has found a promising one. With vertical thinking one is trying to select the best approach but with lateral thinking one is generating different approaches for the sake of generating them.

As we begin to have landings on the moon, we can alternate those with vertical launch of similar crew modules on similar launch vehicles for vertical-launch tourism in space, if you want to call it that adventure travel.

Black is slimming. And so are layers and nice, long vertical stripes. They're obvious tips, but they work!

Prague is like a vertical Venice steps everywhere.

Dancing is a vertical interpretation of a horizontal intention.

A vertical line is dignity. The horizontal line is peaceful. The obtuse angle is action. That's universal, it is primary.

Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.

There's a real opportunity to have a vertical takeoff and landing electric supersonic jet.

I love to read about the exploits of technical mountain climbers, but I've never done any vertical climbing.

Vertical lift-up politics rather than horizontal left-right.

Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars.

At my age, any day above ground and vertical is a good day.

The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.

From my vertical, people, especially men, don't realize what clothes can do for their self-esteem, the way they see themselves, their confidence.

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.

I've gotten better at calling out coverages, communication, and being vertical when they're attacking me in the paint.

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.

Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.

Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy.

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.

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.'

You must develop a sense of what you can contribute that goes beyond 1 company or organization. A career path today will likely involve moving from organization to organization, creating a picture of rising circles, rather than a vertical ladder. In fact, a vertical rise within one organization will very likely move you away from your strongest areas of competence.

It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.

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.

Square Roots creates campuses of climate-controlled, indoor, hydroponic vertical farms, right in the hearts of our biggest cities.

The human comedy begins with a vertical smile.

The suit is the polite taming, the socialising, the neutering, of riding and military kit. Those pointless buttons on the cuff were moved from lateral to vertical.

The acceptance of vertical differentiation with the built-in principle of self-determination must apply on as many levels as possible.

The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes.

Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one

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.

The reason we chose vertical landing as our recovery architecture is that vertical landing scales really well.

The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.

Dallas Mavericks want me as a bald-headed 5' 8" guard with a 95" vertical. Vince Carter respect my legs, ask Shawn Kemp.

Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.

The top-down, vertical power relationships of the past are being replaced by a more evenly distributed, bottom-up variety.