High Aspect Ratio

Famous quotes containing the words high, aspect and/or ratio:

“People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least the secret desires, of all enlightened Europeans are deflected to the west, like our magnetic needles.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)

“Cleopatra’s nose: had it been shorter, the whole aspect of the world would have been altered.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

“People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)