Rounds Quotes - Page 32

• If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ignorance, Bridges, Rivers

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.72, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his character.

  Jean-Louis Barrault

  Art, Character, Men

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• In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men. There's no initiation either into such mysteries. He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know. Imagine the growing regrets, the longing to escape, the powerless disgust, the surrender, the hate.

  Joseph Conrad

  Regret, Hate, Heart

  Joseph Conrad (1999). “Heart of Darkness - Second Edition”, p.71, Broadview Press

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• Yes no yes no yes no? Red blue? Yes red, no blue? No red, yes no? In out, up down? Do don't, can can't? Choices sit on the shelf life New shoes in a shoe shop. If the in crowd are squeezing into a must-have shoe And the one pair left are too tiny for you Don't feel compelled into choosing them If you're really a size 9, buy that size. While everyone else Hobbles round with sore feet Your choices should feel comfortable Or they aren't your choices at all. Why limp when you can sprint

  Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

  Blue, Shoes, Feet

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• People who are born round don't die square.

  Cus D'Amato

  Squares, People, Boxing

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• I will knock out Vernon Forrest in two rounds whether I have a cigarette or not. I know a lot of people want to see me fight more rounds. So, if HBO wants, they can pick two sparring partners for me to fight after I knock out Forrest. That way, the audience can see me fight 12 rounds.

  Ricardo Mayorga

  Fighting, Hbo, Sparring Partner

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• Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress." And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without." At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty."

  Khalil Gibran

  Beauty, Pain, Oysters

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• The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Smile, Blessing, Essence

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• Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.

  Peter Tork

  Baseball, Skills, Bats

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• Today, you're 50. Now we can round your age up to 100! Happy 50th birthday!

  Dave Barry

  Birthday, Age, Today

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• King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer.

  Edward Abbey

  Kings, White, Tables

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

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• You never can tell, though, with suicide notes, can you? In the planetary aggregate of all life, there are many more suicide notes than there are suicides. They're like poems in that respect, suicide notes: nearly everyone tries their hand at them some time, with or without the talent. We all write them in our heads. Usually the note is the thing. You complete it, and then resume your time travel. It is the note and not the life that is cancelled out. Or the other way round. Or death. You never can tell, though, can you, with suicide notes.

  Martin Amis

  Suicide, Writing, Hands

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• And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding word like... ow... ound... round... ground! That's it! That's a good name - ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?

  Douglas Adams

  Names, Needs, Hey

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• O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.

  Thomas Paine

  Love, Tyrants, Europe

  Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.32, Penguin

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• Because of my pride in my Scottish heritage, I used to say things like 'I don't mind buying a round of drinks but I don't buy two'. It was something I joked about which has come back to bite me on the ----. I'm shrewd about money, I invest well, and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.

  Rod Stewart

  Pride, Two, People

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• The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge of a town, keeping it on one side, and the green fields, lanes, and woods on the other. Each, in turn, is to me as a magnet to the needle. At times the needle of my nature points towards the country. On that side everything is poetry. I wander over field and forest, and through me runs a glad current of feeling that is like a clear brook across the meadows of May. At others the needle veers round, and I go to town--to the massed haunts of the highest animal and cannibal.

  James Lane Allen

  Country, Running, Animal

  James Lane Allen, William K. Bottorff (1967). “A Kentucky Cardinal, Aftermath, and Other Selected Works”, p.46, Rowman & Littlefield

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• My method to overcome a difficulty is to go round it.

  George Polya

  Overcoming, Method, Difficulty

  George Pólya (1948). “How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method”

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• Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world; when a speck of dust falls to the ground, the entire planet weighs a little more; and when you stamp your foot, the earth moves slightly off its course. Whenever you laugh, gladness spreads like the ripples in the pond; and whenever you're sad, no one anywhere can be really happy. And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.

  Norton Juster

  Fall, Moving, Wings

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• Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.

  Camilla Lackberg

  Country, War, Writing

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• Sometimes the best map will not guide you,
  you can't see what's round the bend.
  Sometimes the road leads through dark places,
  sometimes the darkness is your friend

  Bruce Cockburn

  Dark, Maps, Sometimes

  Song: Pacing the Cage, Album: Slice O Life: Bruce Cockburn Live Solo

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• I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all.

  Dwight Gooden

  Firsts, Chance, Should

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• The notion that Playboy turns women into sex objects is ridiculous. Women are sex objects. If women weren't sex objects, there wouldn't be another generation. It's the attraction between the sexes that makes the world go 'round. That's why women wear lipstick and short skirts.

  Hugh Hefner

  Sex, Generations, World

  "Being Hugh Hefner: The Playboy founder dishes on his love for blonds, Viagra and morality". Interview with Jacob E. Osterhout, www.nydailynews.com. August 1, 2010.

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• Nothing so mystical. Human beings hunger for killing, that is all. It only takes a few politicians to stoke division, or a few demagogues encouraging hatred to set your kind upon one another. And then before you know it, you have a whole nation biting on its own tail, going round and round until there is nothing left but the snapping of teeth.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Hatred, Teeth, Tails

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2012). “The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• I don't remember too many rounds where you get shots given to you. Usually, ones are taken away.

  Stuart Appleby

  Sports, Taken, Remember

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The thing is, I love a celebrity interview. Doesn't matter how big or how small. It could be Hillary Clinton or the guy who made it to the third round of 'Popstars,' I'll read it.

  Sharon Horgan

  Guy, Matter, Interviews

  "I've devised a game for bland celebrity interviews: swap one star's questions with another's answers" by Sharon Horgan, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2008.

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