Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Einstein

An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere.

Albert Pike

Justice to others and to ourselves is the same; that we cannot define our duties by mathematical lines ruled by the square, but must fill with them the great circle traced by the compasses

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States.

Bob Newhart

I wasn't the class clown. I wasn't that obvious. There would be a circle of guys, and they're watching the class clown. And I'm standing in the back, and I turn to the guy next to me and I say something funny to him, and he starts to laugh. And the guy next to him says, 'What did he say?'

Each one of us is bound to make the little circle in which he or she lives better and happier. Bound to see that out of that small circle the widest good may flow.

Anish Kapoor

There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.

Anish Kapoor

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.

Amy Ray

Your actions will follow you full circle round,the higher the leap, I said, the harder the ground!

Ann Brashares

The bottom had arrived. She crashed against it, but it brought no sense of closure or understanding. She just lay there at the bottom looking up. She knew there must be a very tiny circle of light up there somewhere, but just now she couldn’t see it.

A. R. Ammons

The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.

A. S. Byatt

Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.

We've been working with the preferred shareholders, trying to circle a number that would secure a vote.

Samuel Butler

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.

Jonathan Coe

Someone emailed me and said The Closed Circle reminded them of reading Trollope.

Howie Mandel

My whole life is a practical joke, ... Every evening and every show has really become about entertaining me. I was always like that. And now I've come full circle because that's what the TV show is too.

Jon Evans

It is a truth universally acknowledged, in the enlightened liberal semi-socialist California circles in which I often move, that Uber is evil.

I think there will be more collaboration. The phrase circle the wagons comes to mind. People get a sense about how big the risk is. It's tough to do it on your own.

Jerry Pate

I think it's probably as significant as any win I've ever had for me personally. Maybe not for the golfing world, because it's not a U.S. Open or a Players Championship, but for me it's a huge win ... to be out of the winner's circle for 24 years. I mean that's a long time. And I'm just humbled that I could come back and do it.

Paul Molitor

I went 0 for 4, it was a 0-0 game, and I ended the game in the on-deck circle when one of our guys drove in a run to win it. But, hey, I got four cracks at him.

David Rittenhouse

I will have no circles except the zodiac, on which I will have the true latitude and longitude of each planet pointed out by its proper index.

I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'

Pitching is going to be a huge key for us. We have a lot of experience in the pitching circle which is a good thing to have with a young team, because at least we are going to have the pitchers to keep us in the game.

I think you have to focus on the inner circle of the decision-makers.

Alice Hoffman

Only her death could prove her innocence; a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When we start at the center of ourselves, we discover something worthwhile extending toward the periphery of the circle. We find again some of the joy in the now, some of the peace in the here, some of the love in me and thee which go to make up the kingdom of heaven on earth.

Czeslaw Milosz

On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.

Dorothy Thompson

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle.

Donald Sutherland

But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I was truly peripheral.

Dorothy Day

What we would like to do is change the world...by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world.

Anais Nin

Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.

Anna Freud

Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.

Alexandra Fuller

This is not a full circle. It's life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we make to get on with it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Friends, you and me... you brought another friend... and then there were three... we started our group... our circle of friends... and like that circle... there is no beginning or end.