Top 45 Vertical Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Vertical Quotes from famous people such as Kirk Franklin, Lauren Groff, Richard Edelman, Jan Koum, Brian Grazer, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Most gospel music is very vertical. And there's nothing

Most gospel music is very vertical. And there’s nothing wrong with that – there’s nothing wrong with, you know, ‘God, we praise you,’ and ‘hallelujah.’ Those songs are very important. But I also like to do songs that are very horizontal, that kind of fit within the fabric of people’s everyday life.
Kirk Franklin
We think of stories a lot of the time as being horizontal texts, beginning to end. But I love the idea of having little vertical spikes in the story, too.
Lauren Groff
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.
Richard Edelman
The message growth rate in Brazil – it’s not like a hockey stick: it’s like a vertical line.
Jan Koum
The hair is part of my image, part of my persona. And the hair is no accident: I have to gel it vertical every single morning.
Brian Grazer
The top-down, vertical power relationships of the past are being replaced by a more evenly distributed, bottom-up variety.
Clive Lewis
Nest is one vertical implementation of a set of smart products for the home. But we will support other people’s smart products for the home.
Sundar Pichai
As a melody instrument player, it’s all about getting from one note to the next, and those intervals and how you navigate your way through these vertical structures of chords. You realize that everything’s moving forward, and it’s all linear.
David Sanborn
Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.
Sam Kean
The reason we chose vertical landing as our recovery architecture is that vertical landing scales really well.
Jeff Bezos
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.
Jerry Saltz
I think I might not be the best vertical athlete, but I think I’m quicker than people give me credit for. That was the biggest knock on me coming out of college.
Klay Thompson
The more you densify a city, the more congestion will increase, however technology changes… cities so packed that they will no longer function… vertical sprawl.
Leon Krier
I did my first Broadway play, ‘The Vertical Hour,’ in 2006, with Julianne Moore, who’s always been one of my favorite actresses. My scene was with her, so it was nerve-racking.
Rutina Wesley
‘Vert’ is, like, straight to the top, like a vertical leap.
Lil Uzi Vert
When you’re in a fighter jet and there’s a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it’s light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.
Yves Rossy
I think if you look at the commonalities between eBay, PayPal and OpenTable, all three are businesses that built a network in a vertical. Network effect businesses are very attractive businesses.
Jeff Jordan
A typical ‘Larry King Live’ is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he’s strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject.
James Wolcott
Companies can’t offer every employee a vertical rise through the ranks, and some employees’ careers will level off. Without the prospects of further advancement, how do you keep these people satisfied throughout what might now be a longer working life? By providing them with an increased level of autonomy.
Alexander De Croo
I was 270 lbs with a 48-inch vertical, benching 500 pounds, running a 4.5, 4.6.
LaVar Ball
Black is slimming. And so are layers and nice, long vertical stripes. They’re obvious tips, but they work!
Perez Hilton
To fix India’s healthcare scenario, what is most needed is ‘systems thinking.’ For far too long, India has followed a vertical approach in its health sector, which translated into disease-specific national programmes being set up.
Kapil Sibal
Horizontal and vertical sprawl… are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.
Leon Krier
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.
George Stigler
At the crux of Half Dome, at the very top of the wall, imagine, like, a smooth wall of rock – a nearly vertical granite slap with tiny ripples for your hands and feet. And so you’re really trusting the rubber on your shoes to stick to these ripples.
Alex Honnold
It’s exciting and refreshing to listen to new rock. And I like a lot of it – Filter, Vertical Horizon, Stabbing Westward… I even enjoy some Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock.
Rickey Medlocke
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.
Buzz Aldrin
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.
Marc Ostrofsky
Someone once told me that being in the closet is like living in a vertical casket. Perfect description.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
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.
A. A. Gill
I’ve gotten better at calling out coverages, communication, and being vertical when they’re attacking me in the paint.
Ivica Zubac
The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the

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.
Ella Maillart
I have improved both feet for my passing game as well as in the vertical play into attack, whether that be low balls or longer balls.
Jerome Boateng
Square Roots creates campuses of climate-controlled, indoor, hydroponic vertical farms, right in the hearts of our biggest cities.
Kimbal Musk
In my case, vertical food was less about standing things up than layering things: more an attempt to gain texture by weaving things together.
Charlie Trotter
Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.
Tullian Tchividjian
Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary structures have a built-in safety factor for the vertical component; that is, gravity.
Charles Francis Richter
It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.
Ernst Mayr
The thing you can’t measure is someone’s heart, someone’s desire. You can measure a 40, his vertical, his bench press, and that might let you know things like, yeah, he can jump high. But desire, his dedication, his determination, that’s something you can’t measure. That’s something you can’t measure about Rod Smith.
Shannon Sharpe
We get so enamored by speed, size, vertical jumps, and all these other measurables and tangibles. But what makes a great football player isn’t size or speed. Great football players know how to play the game, and they push harder than guys twice their size.
Mark Schlereth
Every camera shoots horizontal, right? So we’re all super used to framing things with lots of horizontal room. We’ve seen this new wave of Snapchat stories and Instagram stories where people are actually framing for and recording in vertical. Whether it’s better or not is debatable.
Marques Brownlee
We work in vertical and horizontal planes. We avoid depth characteristics as much as possible. This reduces the number of pictures in a five minute segment from 12,000 to 1,200. And the public likes the technique better.
William Hanna
The great seats of power tend to be wide and open, not vertical and soaring. Red Square, Tiananmen Square, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin – all massive but with large open spaces that project an image of might.
Gary Ross
I love to read about the exploits of technical mountain climbers, but I’ve never done any vertical climbing.
Will Hobbs
The whole idea behind virtual integration is that it lets you meet customers’ needs faster and more efficiently than any other model. With vertical integration, you can be an efficient producer – as long as the world isn’t changing very much.
Michael Dell