Rounds Quotes - Page 2

• You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a good thing, but you can't put a round peg in a square hole.

  Ray Liotta

  Independent, Squares, Becoming

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• The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

  Christopher Lasch

  Addiction, Ownership, Mass Consumption

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• My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.

  Anne Lamott

  Land, Doubt, Lily Pads

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.7, Anchor

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• I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Book, Reading

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.289, Cambridge University Press

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• My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round.

  Cindy Margolis

  Thanksgiving, Kids, Years

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• Why waltz with a guy for 10 rounds if you can knock him out in one?

  Rocky Marciano

  Boxing, Guy, Waltz

  "Remembering the Brockton Blockbuster" by Thomas Hauser, www.nysun.com. September 14, 2005.

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• I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house.

  Eli Roth

  Years, House, Haunted Houses

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• I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.

  Alan Rickman

  Girlfriend, Morning, Block

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• A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.

  Camille Paglia

  Fashion, Children, Hair

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• I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.

  Elvis Presley

  Training, Lines, Way

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• I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.

  Philip Larkin

  Writing, Sleep, Organization

  "Philip Larkin's Everyday Poetry" by Henry Allen, www.washingtonpost.com. June 3, 1989.

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• I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.

  Harold MacMillan

  Son, Way

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• For ages, in my lunch hours, I would just go round and choreograph fight scenes. For fun. So now I'm very good at being thrown around. I bounce, in the words of my friends.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Fun, Fighting, Lunch

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• A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Wise, Men, Honor

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.403

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• It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

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• I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

  Ben Okri

  Writing, Past, Circles

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• Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

  Jean Paul

  Beauty, Party, Literature

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• There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Soccer, Football, Opportunity

  "In his own words: Ronaldo reveals all about Ferguson, his football dreams and his future". Interview with Bruno Prata, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2008.

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• In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.

  Erwin Rommel

  Military, Fighting, Men

  "'Infanterie Greift An' ('Infantry Attacks')". Book by Erwin Rommel, p. 62, 1937.

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• As a kid, I think I wanted to be the on-set dresser for 'Charlie's Angels'. My goals weren't lofty. No. I just wanted to someday quit my paper round and that was about it.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Kids, Angel, Thinking

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• I just moved into the world of Xbox Live. And I've discovered that everyone on the Internet is a lot better than me. I spent half an hour the other day designing a boxer, and I got knocked out twice in the first round.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Xbox, Design, Half

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• I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Party, Mean, Thinking

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• Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.

  Terry Pratchett

  Home, Pages, Starting

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• Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.

  Steven Pinker

  Perspective, Suffering, Inability

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• Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

  John Boyd Orr

  Country, Communication, Years

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