Diagonal Quotes

When he got here they said he might not ever recover, that he may be a vegetable for the rest of his life. The entire middle third of his face was shattered -- his main injury was shrapnel that went through his skull base diagonally, entering right in front his left ear and exiting out of a hole under his right eye next to his nose. - Stephen Poole

We are a small city from a small country but we have a big heart. We knew Porto's wingers attacked a lot so our strategy was to take advantage of it, working the diagonals. Our first goal picked up the team's spirit and got them to believe in coming back. When we scored two more we weren't going to let the win get away. - Vladimir Weiss

They're big, fast and quick. They like to play diagonal ball to the weak side flanks, and they're pretty strong in the air. - Rob Bledsoe

There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature. - Barbara Kingsolver

The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. - Howard Staunton

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire. - William R. Alger