Round Quotes - page 50

One only leaf upon the top of a tree - the sole remaining leaf - danced round and round like a rag blown by the wind. (Dorothy Wordsworth)
A serious mistake in a nightie, A grave disappointment all round Is all that you'll get from th'Almighty, Is all that you'll get underground. Oh he said: "If you lay off the crumpet I'll see you alright in the end. Just hang on until the last trumpet. Have faith in me, chum – I'm your friend." View quote
James Fenton
Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born that drops into its place And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake. View quote
James Russell Lowell
I am egg and always will be, and we are eggs and always will be. Fried eggs. Or rotten eggs. Boiled eggs. Or scrambled eggs. Poached eggs. Or round eggs. Eggs. Eggs. Eggs. View quote
Giannina Braschi
The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. View quote
William Wordsworth
Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly this touches me and I say ''One must not hide that'' Then someone tells you ''The shoulder is on the back.'' I've never seen women with shoulders on their backs. View quote
Coco Chanel
In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may lose in the first round itself. View quote
Viswanathan Anand
A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on. View quote
Terry Pratchett
I love digging out old records ... Fashion goes round in circles. View quote
Siobhan Fahey
My religious belief is my own. It belongs to me, not to the State of Illinois. I would not smother one sentiment of my heart to be the Emperor of the round world. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
Besides we feel that mind to being comes Along with body, with body grows and ages. For just as children totter round about With frames infirm and tender, so there follows A weakling wisdom in their minds; and then, Where years have ripened into robust powers, Counsel is also greater, more increased The power of mind; thereafter, where already The body's shattered by master-powers of eld, And fallen the frame with its enfeebled powers, Thought hobbles, tongue wanders, and the mind gives way; All fails, all's lacking at the selfsame time. Therefore it suits that even the soul's dissolved, Like smoke, into the lofty winds of air; Since we behold the same to being come Along with body and grow, and, as I've taught, Crumble and crack, therewith outworn by eld. (Lucretius)
The towers themselves must be either round or polygonal. Square towers are sooner shattered by military engines. View quote
Vitruvius
Of course we all know that Morris was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking round him has always tired me. View quote
Max Beerbohm
... my mother will settle on the rug and unclip the bellows, pulling and pushing them with a mild aquatic motion with her left hand, the fingers of the right hand flowering upon the keys, the wedding-bangle suspended around her wrist. Each time the bellows are pushed, the round holes on the back open and close like eyes. Without the body music is not possible; it provides the hollow space for resonance as does the curved wooden box of the violin or the round urn of the sitar. At the moment of singing, breath tips in the swelling diaphragm as water does in a pitcher. The voice-box itself is a microscopic harp, its cords tautening and relaxing with each inflection. View quote
Amit Chaudhuri
‘This second time round, she'd discovered that to be happy was not so much a self-sufficient, spontaneous emotion, such as you might feel in relation to a dream or a secret, but a way of reacting to the rest of the world; that to be happy this time, she must curb the natural human instinct to look up at the sky, with its all-encompassing definition, and gaze towards the immediate ground and horizon, with its lack of shape, or abode, or clear ending.' View quote
Amit Chaudhuri
I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh. View quote
Erich Maria Remarque
The waves round the horn will toss us to and fro, to and fro like a rubber duckie in the bathtub of an angry God. View quote
Arthur M. Jolly
Even with a round table, some people always seem able to sit at the head of it. View quote
Ashleigh Brilliant
The important thing for me was that the World Cup should travel round the world. View quote
Sepp Blatter
I like Monty, I'd like to sit with my arm round him on the sofa all night watching documentaries on BBC Four. View quote
Ben Dirs
Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin. (Kurt Vonnegut)
Even when the floods rush round to drown me I just hold my breath and pray Let me live my dreams Every single one of my I ain't quitting none of my dreams. View quote
Aloe Blacc
All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim. View quote
Bryan Procter
Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly. View quote
Herman Melville
But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy. View quote
Herman Melville