Angle Quotations

Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.

If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason.

The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.

The dull routine of our daily job takes on a new significance, assumes a beauty and importance undreamt of before, if we consider it from the angle of service to God.

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.

If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.

My name, my origins, my background and my experiences are what leveraged my success. The angle of the immigrant, through which I examined the reality in France, distinguished me.

In 2007 and 2008, the first two Danish ships were hijacked. I started to research it. I've had the idea of writing in this arena for a long time, but I could never find the angle of what kind of story.

For my money, if I'm playing anything then it has to have some sharp angles on it. It's got to have some edges that you can cut yourself on, otherwise it's boring.

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

The whole schizophrenia angle interested me. When I first started working on it, I thought I would play up that angle more than I ended up doing. The religious aspect of the story was also a draw.

I worked on 'Sarah Connor' even longer than 'Firefly.' And I always remembered how generous everyone was to me when I didn't know what to do, and I didn't know the rules, and I didn't know camera angles, and I didn't know lighting.

I approach dancing from a different angle than those who begin dancing at 8 or 9. Those who have studied from the beginning never question anything.

There is technique to it-he is just standing there flexing his arm, and I am standing there making faces as if I am being choked. You keep your head in a certain angle for the camera.

I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.

Even if someone is already in your market space, ask yourself whether you can approach it from a different angle and thereby secure your own customer base.

One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.

I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?

The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should realize this.

All you need is a bad angle and suddenly youre 30 pounds overweight.

My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and based on speed, angle of approach and actually blocks of text. It was very - actually, it was a very good study, and got me a job in an ad agency. And they also decided that I had to - to give me a very ugly Plexiglas trophy for it.

A novel, even a social realist one, can't simply be a comprehensive rendering of what is. A novel requires a special angle or approach, whether in structure or language or theme, to justify itself.

I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle.

When Jack Swagger copies my Ankle Lock and Randy Orton does my Angle Slam, it's disrespectful. I didn't come up with the Ankle Lock; Ken Shamrock came up with the Ankle Lock, but I waited until he retired to do the Ankle Lock.

When a man returned from the field and we'd look at the work, we'd criticize each other very genuinely and never offensively. And we would avoid all tricks, angle shots were just horrible to us.

Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.

I think my Latino culture has equipped me with a different point of view than the rest of my counterparts, and seeing things from a different angle has helped me a lot. I feel very proud of my culture, of my Latino heritage.

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.

I love Vince McMahon. He came up with the Kurt Angle character. He ran with it, and then I was able to run with it. I thank him for the opportunity he gave me. Vince McMahon was one of my best friends, period.

Sport-based video games occupy an odd space within the sphere of modern home entertainment. Reliably enjoyed by millions, the sport-based video game stands at what sometimes feels like an oblique angle from the larger medium, and in ways that can be hard to articulate.

I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.

I really admire artists that are willing to take a different approach and a different angle to their shows.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

What's the best angle to cut someone's throat? Well, usually from behind. That's usually how it works.

Know your stuff. Have an angle. Know how to grow business, how to develop products, have patents and an undeveloped market that could be huge.

Whether the general manager believes that he can help me out of my pen, I haven't asked yet. That was impressive to me to watch him come right at the hitters with a nice angle to the ball.

What he does for our team, he does it better than most guys I've been around at this level. He has a knack for playing that outside-linebacker position. He has a knack for knowing who's supposed to block him, at what angle they're supposed to block him, and he has just a knack for defeating those angles.

We're going to do international news and are trying to do a Russian angle on them, trying to show what impact international affairs have on Russia and we will also try to show interesting things about Russia, what is happening here, documentaries, interesting people and places, something that might be new to our audience.

We've got his first NHL point, even though it was in an exhibition game, in HD, from a great angle behind the goal.

I don't host a show and go, 'Have you got my best angle?'

When he gets to the second level, there is no catching him from behind, at least not on this team. If you don't turn those guys and let them catch it in stride, they have a better chance to make big plays. The safety wasn't used to seeing that kind of speed and took the wrong angle on it, and (Ford) was gone.

Every angle that I looked at was somebody who I admired and was better than me. So it made me very afraid.

I think good filmmaking is when you really hold the mirror up truthfully, and you don't angle it and you don't hide things with smoke and mirrors.

The production angle of having it in Vermont is intriguing.

I was made at right angles to the world and I see it so. I can only see it so.

Several defenders had an angle on Larry, but he simply outran them all.

She won the tournament, so whatever works works. I know she was very (slow) today. I'm not really like that. I'm a more feel kind of person. Give me the numbers and the wind and we don't need to talk about every little angle out there.

Silver, which got butchered because the slope of the daily chart began resembling the angle of a shuttle launch, seems to have found support as it approached the April lows.

minor issues which make no sense from the angle of disarmament.

Perkins' book covers one angle that people don't think about. We have military weapons that we use around the world to force governments to go our way, but one thing they don't realize is that we use debt as a weapon as well. This book shows how, over the course of time, we've used international aid as a way of indebting nations.

One thing that happens on the 'Newsroom' is that every time a real story does get incorporated into the show, there's always an angle that's provided that hasn't really been dealt with yet.

I'm a little sore, but I'm fine. I can still punt the ball. I can still hold the ball (for Adam Vinatieri). I had an angle on him, but you had the worst athlete on the team, trying to tackle the best athlete on the team.

I lost the ball in the sun. That was the thing. It was going to be a bang-bang play, and I was going to get there at the same time as the ball. I tried to create an angle by sliding, and it still didn't come out for me. Two runs scored and we lose.

I love being out at all times of the year because I get to think about things and angle for some fish too.

From my angle I had no chance to see if it was the correct call. It was frustrating because we were battling and battling for every opportunity to get back in the game.

From every angle that you look at it, it was important. You want to separate from ninth place as much as possible. It seems like everyone is winning, so we need points.

From Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe, we see the same patterns of under-representation and stereotyped portrayal of women in the news. The reason for these patterns is complicated. From the story angle and the choice of interview questions to the use of language and the choice of images; all these have a bearing on the messages that emerge in the news. These patterns are deeply rooted not only in professional practice, but in wider social assumptions about female and male attributes, roles and competencies.

If a planet is setting in the West at the time of our birth, its angle strikes us in such a manner as to draw us to a certain type of marriage partner, and the planets under the earth, in the North, have an effect upon our condition in the latter part of life.

If a piece of furniture is top-heavy or unstable, fasten it to a wall using angle braces or anchors. Keep heavier items on lower shelves or in lower drawers.

From the rough, I'd use a 6-iron, play the ball back an inch or two and swing down on a steeper angle to catch the ball first. It also helps to aim slightly left and open the clubface at address. You'll get more height on the shot, and the club will cut through the grass more easily.

He had a pretty angle to all his pitches, although his command within the strike zone wasn't very good,

He has excellent control. The ball spirals off his foot. His golf bag is full of clubs, too. He can go right and left equally well. He can hit that Aussie-style end-over-end in close. He can angle it out of bounds. He can do a lot of things.

He had an angle and I saw him with his head down, running, and I thought, 'He's not even looking at me,' so I went ahead and cut back,

We told the kids that Roberts and Holscher can run. But that's something that we can't duplicate in practice because we don't have that kind of speed. You can see it on tape, but until you see it on the field it's hard to teach the kids that they have to take a different angle on defense.

He's a goal scorer. He hardly ever takes a bad shot -- when he has a bad angle he can go over his back and get the better shot. It may look a little showy but it's the right play to make.

His pass blocking has a chance to really be good. Fundamentally for a young kid, he's pretty natural. But when you're thinking about your assignments all the time, you go the wrong way or you don't recognize it as quickly or you take a poor angle and you get beat because you're just in a bad position.

He's given up two hits with two walks and 25 strikeouts in two games. That's pretty impressive from any angle you look at it. He is really throwing the ball well and with a lot of confidence right now.

He could put together a pile of cement and steel beams, knowing you would look at it at a certain angle and you would think it was twice as big as it really was.

(Hamilton) tipped it, but like I said, the ref was kind of behind the call and didn't really get a good angle at it.

I was always amazed that he had this uncanny knack for being able to pluck a Canadian angle out of almost any overseas story. He was a very gentle man, but had a bulldog's tenacity when it came to chasing down the Canadian angle.

Just trying to stay tall and work downhill, instead of side-to-side. Sometimes I have the tendency to go side-to-side. I need to work downhill, that's the arm angle I have to have.

Joe is an analytical guy. He is very bright kid. Joe will study the angle he has to take to get to a linebacker. He tries to do all the little things.

I think it's actually easier for me to simulate Vick than Peyton Manning, but you can't mimic him to the full extent. You can't stand there flat-footed and fling the thing 65 or 70 yards off your back foot (like Vick can). I've got a little bit of a burst, but I can't run a 4.2, that's for darn sure. You see guys on film take the wrong angle on him all the time because he's so fast. You know he's fast, but you don't know how fast until you watch him in person.

I think as the week goes on, I start to progress from the second and third reads to my flat check. I mean, if I'm in doubt, I just hit the running back on an angle route or flat rout. It's not that hard. Playing quarterback is a lot easier than playing receiver.

I think that's the way you have to do it. Basketball is a team sport. If you convince guys to play together, you can play with anyone at that higher level. I really think it's a great angle for coaches to look at." ()

I saw it coming and got the right angle on it. The opening was there and I got it in.

Rod got stuck in the same problem that I had. He's got a lot of experience, a lot of passion for what he does. He doesn't try to remake the wheel where things are going well. Due to his experience he brings an interesting angle to each thing that comes up. We've been able to do a lot collaboratively in the department.

It felt a little awkward. But it was good to get up there and to start working to try to get down there on a nice angle and see a guy with a catcher's mitt and get after it.

I think people hire me for the slightly weird angle that I bring. Part of the trick is keeping it sort of simple; you have to give the impression of not that much music playing when there's really a lot.

It creates a place for fish to hide and it reduces the angle of repose to reduce erosion.

It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before.

Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.

We examined the evidence from every angle before accusing smith of murdering his wife.

We're really working every angle of this issue. The most important issue for us is getting the residents' homes cleaned and getting their homes restored.

We were shooting video, and they are using footage that I and my crew actually shot. It was really exciting, worrying about the camera angle you are getting, and you were truly being your character and fully concerned about shooting the footage. It was like shooting a movie within a movie.

We practice our trench rescue, confined space rescue and angle rescue on a regular basis, a couple of times a month ... for four to eight hours a day ... (to be prepared) for incidents like this.

We were about six inches from being up 14-7 on a fade route. We were one camera angle away from having the ball on the half-yard line. We could have easily scored 28-21 points in that game.

I don't like reverse-angle shots - I find them very fake and very untruthful to the viewer.

Who says I like right angles? These are not my laws, these are not my rules.

The right angle is one of the world's basic shapes.

I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye.

An oblique angle,” Jack said, and his bout of jealousy was quickly replaced with glee. “Ha! I told you I would work that in!

What's your angle?" I asked, trying to sound more playful than demanding. "Isosceles," Jack quipped.

There has never been a major accident there, but because of the angle of the tracks, it's certainly a candidate for one.

Try to have a unique angle so that you can stand out from everyone else. Your writing needs to be both unusual and on a very high level.

This was a more challenging project than we first anticipated. We knew we had to deal with launch, ball spin, ball spin rate, pureness of impact and player angle of attack. It took quite a bit of testing, but we believe we have something that golfers will really appreciate.

Without getting too technical, what I try to do is swing on the angle of the club shaft at address, ... For me, that's a consistent swing plane that matches my arms and body. It takes timing out of the equation.

There is some level on which this life must occasionally become repugnant and unappetizing to you and you must step back from it. And then you have a new relationship with it, and then you step back into it from a different angle - with a new appetite - and then you find the next leg of your journey.

Um, well, it varies, doesn't it? I think it's a mix. I think you've got to have research. I would like you to come up with some original material that no one has written about or known before. And a personal angle that kind of brings it to life for the reader. It's a mix of four or five different things, and I think it's interesting how some writers do 10 percent of this and 90 percent of the other. And some people do 20 percent of everything.