“ To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
“ A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it — it keeps him upright. ”
- Robert Anson Heinlein- Copy
“ There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
“ For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune. ”
- Aeschylus- Copy
“ There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright. ”
- Dylan Thomas- Copy
“ Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
“ I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life — about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them. ”
- Parker J. Palmer- Copy
“ One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
“ We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation. ”
- Lily Tomlin- Copy
“ Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: earthquake. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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