Circles Quotes - Page 6

• I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.

  Black Elk

  Native American, Shapes, Sacred

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists.

  Andres Segovia

  Writing, Guitar, Causes

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• Absurd, irreducible; nothing — not even a profound and secret delirium of nature — could explain it. Obviously I did not know everything, I had not seen the seeds sprout, or the tree grow. But faced with this great wrinkled paw, neither ignorance nor knowledge was important: the world of explanations and reasons is not the world of existence. A circle is not absurd, it is clearly explained by the rotation of a straight segment around one of its extremities. But neither does a circle exist. This root, on the other hand, existed in such a way that I could not explain it.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Ignorance, Hands, Roots

  "Nausea". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938.

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• Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Ocean, Sea, Green

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.556, Penguin

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

  Samuel Butler

  Squares, People, Trying

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”

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• Could it be that my circle is largely black and that it is why I am influential in black circles but not in white circles?

  Louis Farrakhan

  White, Black, Influential

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• There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.

  Ken Kesey

  People, Literature, England

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• Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.

  Audre Lorde

  Writing, Racism, Silence

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.85, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.

  Audre Lorde

  New York, Feminist, Literature

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

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Mixing, Television, Want

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• Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.

  Stanley Jordan

  Music, Genius, Jazz

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• Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.

  Beverley Jones

  Love, Running, Dog

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• Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets.

  Judith Light

  Gay, Men, Race

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• I made a circle with a smile for a mouth on yellow paper, because it was sunshiny and bright.

  Harvey Ball

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems.

  Fatos Nano

  Two Sides, Giving, Enemy

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

  Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

  Mexican, United States, Mexico

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• Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.

  Herb Alpert

  Player, Jazz, Trumpets

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• We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on.

  Glenn Danzig

  Snakes, Skulls, Skins

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• I had always wanted to write a song called 'The Vicious Circle'. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.

  Mac Davis

  Song, Growing Up, Writing

  Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. May 9, 2015.

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• Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy that way, but it's a sort of suicide, too.

  Antoinette Perry

  Suicide, Bridges, Dining

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• Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together.

  Jimmy Wales

  Important, Together, Stuff

  "Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Responds". Slashdot Interview, slashdot.org. July 28, 2004.

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• The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I'm doing is breaking into the country club.

  Howard Dean

  Country, Party, Moving

  "Running on Instinct" by Mark Singer, www.newyorker.com. January 12, 2004.

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• I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Moving, Way, Shows

  "Dick Van Dyke Discusses His Career in Entertainment". "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. September 22, 2000.

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• As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Order, Break Through, Alarms

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• That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.

  Hall Caine

  Men, Expression, Soul

  Hall Caine (2016). “The Scapegoat”, p.6, The Floating Press

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