Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Franken

There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. - you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong, tend to be people who didn't take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.

Arthur Conan Doyle

What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.

Ben Marcus

To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood.

Juvenal

Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.

Charles Fort

In measuring a circle, one begins anywhere.

Ben Bernanke

It's true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Everything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.

Anthony Trollope

For themost of us, if we donot talkof ourselves, orat any rate of the individual circles of which we are the centres, we can talk of nothing. I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.

Demetri Martin

Fire truck with back end on fire drives really fast in circles.

Dennis Miller

Hey, what if those crop circles are just ads for Target?

Ed Sheeran

Pizza is a circle. Pizza is my life. Pizza is the circle of life,

Elizabeth May

When Dante described the circles of Hell, he clearly forgot the one where a hungry pixie sits on one's shoulder for eternity.

Edwin Land

Famous in our circles is the story of the visiting English banker who in 1948 upon seeing our model 95 camera commented, 'Very interesting, but why would one want a picture in a minute?'

Edmund Waller

Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

Carl von Clausewitz

Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.

Daniel Handler

Certain people have said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is as if a stone has dropped into the pond, spreading circles of ripples further and further out, until the entire world has been changed by one tiny action.

Elia Kazan

Some directors, like Stevens [George Stevens], shoot full circle, 360 degrees, and that's what's right for them. I generally shoot at about a seven to one ratio. But part of that is because I've worked on every screenplay, so I'm further along in the visual concept.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.

Aleister Crowley

The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.

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.

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.

Samuel Butler

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

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.

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.

Alice Hoffman

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