Tom Noddy Quotes

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

My work is always very geometric.

Approach nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, and the cone ...

On good days, I've done bubbles with as many as 38 faces - a row of pentagons, a row of hexagons, and another row of pentagons on bottom.

Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

I spent half my life, roughly speaking, doing the study of nature in many aspects and half of my life studying completely artificial shapes. And the two are extraordinarily close; in one way both are fractal.

She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense.

Scientists say every action initiates an equal and opposite reaction. I say that's just the start. I say every action initiates a most unequal and upredictable chain reaction, that every filament of living becomes part of a larger weave, while remaining identifiable. That every line of latitude requires several stripes of longitude to obtain meaning. That every universe is part of a bigger heaven, a heaven of rhythm and geometry, where a heartbeat is the apex of a triangle.

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.

You become an actor because you don't want to do the same thing all the time.

I never want to repeat the same thing. I always want it to be different from what I've done, and to be not quite sure whether or not I can pull it off, until I hopefully do.

In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth

Every time I get something that's different than the last thing, I get excited. I don't want to play the same thing, every single time.

Every day is different, there's no day that's the same.

World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips and feel The drunkenness of things being various.

Equal partners aren't always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.

I never get bored, because there’s always different puzzles, I’m wearing different clothes, there’s different contestants, there’s different prizes.

I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.

Today we live in a chaos of straight lines, in a jungle of straight lines. If you do not believe this, take the trouble to count the straight lines which surround you. Then you will understand, for you will never finish counting.

Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity.

Self-similarity is a dull subject because you are used to very familiar shapes. But that is not the case. Now many shapes which are self-similar again, the same seen from close by and far away, and which are far from being straight or plane or solid.

Variety is the spice of life. We all want surprises.

There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

Life's too much fun to have it go in just one direction.