Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chino Moreno

I used to second guess myself all the time. I can sit there and work in circles when I'm nervous about what I'm doing.

The pole of the earth moves in a circle around the pole of the ecliptic; its axis inclines more or less on the plane of this same ecliptic.

David Hewson

In London, the home of the quick deal is that outer ring of the seven circles of hell, Tottenham Court Road, where, as a rule, finding something with an advertised price is as likely as spotting a mermaid under Vauxhall Bridge.

Alice Walker

I advocate that every woman be a part of a circle, and a circle that meets at least once a month, or if you can't do that, once every two months or every four months.

C. S. Lewis

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii if a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork you must make a decision.

Cecelia Ahern

I suppose it’s easier to see the way out of anything when you’ve found your way out of that maze. When you’re stuck in the middle, in a series of dead-ends making circles, it’s difficult to make any sense of anything.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated.

Craig Thompson

Most of my Muslim friends are politically liberal in a lot of senses. They are far more open-minded than the Christian circles I grew up in, which are, you know, actually scarier. That said, too, I still identify with the teachings of Jesus. I don't think they resemble or relate to modern-day Christianity.

You can draw an 80-mile circle around and we would be in the hub.

I thought he was putting out a grass fire, ... There was a circle of fire around him on the grass.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Just 15 years ago it was farms and trees. Now we have the Family Circle Cup tennis match there with Venus and Serena Williams playing.

Chauncey Billups

I'm so excited that our team is finally getting the credit we deserve. We've been dominating the league for a few years and not gotten the proper notoriety and attention. We've kind of come full circle with that.

William Shakespeare

Glory is like a circle in the water

Edie Falco

I was very happy living a normal existence in New York, having my circle of friends. I lived very anonymously for 12 years prior to The Sopranos.

Edwin Markham

We drew a circle that took him in.

James Moran

I happened to be in Dupont Circle already, so it was easier for me to stop by their office. Security is difficult these days in the Hill,

His name just popped up ... it wasn't his voice, it was his name, ... close circle of friends.

His name in football circles in Hampton Roads is well-respected.

It actually creates a circle of protection around your farm.

There is a family tragedy here, and I don't want to compound that, ... I have three issues, and they all circle back to the potential misuse of public resources.

David Amram

The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in.

David Ansen

You'll see why, in animation circles, Miyazaki himself is considered one of the gods.

David LaChapelle

I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.

Buddy Hackett

A comedian sees the world bent. I'm tangent to the circle.

Agnes Smedley

I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.

Charles Dickens

We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts of so much omitted, and so little done- of so many things forgotten, and so many more which might have been repaired! There is no remorse so deep as that which is unavailing; if we would be spared its tortures, let us remember this, in time.

Charles Caleb Colton

As we ascend in society, like those who climb a mountain, we shall find that the line of perpetual congelation commences with the higher circles; and the nearer we approach to the grand luminary the court, the more frigidity and apathy shall we experience.

Alan Watts

Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on.

Eddie Irvine

NASCAR is a bunch of farmers driving around in circles.

Antonio Tabucchi

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.

Michael Connelly

When you surf, the ultimate goal is to get into a pipeline where the water circles around you and that's all there is. In writing, it's the same thing. You want to get into this pipeline where the story is circling around you and that's all there is. That is writing nirvana to me.

William Shakespeare

Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.

Natasha Trethewey

I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that.