Tim Henman

During rallies, it's always crucial to make Nadal cover the whole width of the court. He likes to camp out in his backhand corner, spearing that big off-forehand diagonally across the court. So the backhand down the line is a vital shot, because it moves Nadal out of his most favoured position.

British Tennis Player

Lawrence Hargrave

If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it.

Australian Scientist

Harry Nilsson

It was just a typical London flat, but it was in a great neighborhood. It was across from the Playboy Club, diagonally. From one balcony you could read the time from Big Ben, and from the other balcony you could watch the bunnies go up and down.

American Musician

Frank Deford

I never saw war, so that is still my vision of manhood: Unitas standing courageously in the pocket, his left arm flung out in a diagonal to the upper deck, his right cocked for the business of passing, down amidst the mortals. Lock and load.

American Writer

Raymond Sokolov

The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies.

American Journalist

Dan Flavin

A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance.

American Sculptor

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.

German Composer

Howard Staunton

The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board.

English Celebrity

William R. Alger

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

Trevor Ariza

Imagine drawing a line from one corner of a rectangular paper to the opposite.

Visual Aid

Diagonal lines create a sense of movement or depth in design and art.

Spatial Orientation

Diagonal lines are commonly seen in patterns like herringbone and chevron.

Common Patterns

In geometry, diagonals are used to divide polygons into triangles.

Geometry Usage

Diagonals are straight within shapes, but can appear curved on surfaces like globes.

Not Always Straight

In math, diagonals are precise and have specific properties in different figures.

Mathematic Precision

A diagonal matrix in mathematics has non-zero elements only in a diagonal line.

Matrix Understanding

In computing, diagonal navigation mixes horizontal and vertical movements.

Computing Relevance

 Runes are short, straight, and diagonal lines that make up an alphabet called the “futhark.” All classes of people spoke and wrote this language, in many different dialects. There was no standard spelling, they wrote the individual runic letters by pronouncing the sounds of their regional accents. Some of these inscriptions also bore the influence of other cultures

The secret messages of...

 that a lot of the wildlife has with these salmon. And I had dreamt up this picture of a split-level. Which is half underwater, half above water. Underwater you have the salmon, and above you have a bear with the salmon in its mouth. And the waterfall flowing by with a rainbow running diagonally across the frame.

Photographing Our Seas:...

 Interestingly, they seem to correspond more or less to Jung's four subdivisions of human thought. And they reflect a dichotomy of art and delight on left and the right; tradition and revolution on the top and the bottom. And if you go on the diagonal, you get content and form, and then beauty and truth.

Scott McCloud:...

 This was a patient-centered organization, so they laid on cars for their patients. But what they realized when they started offering chemotherapy is the patients rarely wanted to get in cars. They were too nauseous, so they'd walk back to their hotels. This desire path that you see diagonally, formed.

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 Along the bottom is how tall they said they were in their profile. Along the y-axis, the vertical axis, is how tall they actually were. That diagonal line is the truth line. If their dot's on it, they were telling exactly the truth. Now, as you see, most of the little dots are below the line.

Jeff Hancock: 3 types of...

 and you'll notice that it starts with a rectangle on the outside or the exterior, and all food symbols start with a rectangle. You notice there's a diagonal line going from corner to corner and a dot right in the center. That is the only symbol that will ever look that way.

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 which means that my leg was twisted and snapped diagonally, kind of like a corkscrew. And yes, it's as painful as it sounds. I knew right there on the field that my season was done. What took me a little longer to figure out was that my life was about to change forever.

Alex Smith: An NFL...

 chronic illness was actually a severe under allergy to penicillin as well as some other allergies to gluten to titanium dioxide to food dyes and a mild intolerance to glucose these diagonals was truly empowering and life-saving but

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 plus neither side completely surrounds the other, peace will prevail. Anyone can move to a horizontally or vertically adjacent camp, but never diagonally. The problem is, they’re currently arranged like this.

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 which hung from smaller vertical cables. But Roebling’s model also drew from cable-stayed bridges. These shorter structures held up their decks with diagonal cables that ran directly to support towers.