Centre Quotes - Page 17

• In the centre of the cyclone one is off the wheel of Karma, of life, rising to join the Creators of the Universe, the Creators of us. Here we find that we have created Them who are Us.

  John C. Lilly

  Karma, Cyclones, Rising

  John C. Lilly, Antonietta Lilly (1976). “The Dyadic Cyclone: The Autobiography of a Couple”

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• You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs like tug boats and morals that would surprise a zoo animal.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Girl, Zoos, Animal

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• I'm in love with the person in the sandwich centre. If she didn't exist I'd have to invent her.

  Ian Dury

  Greatest Love, Sandwiches, Persons

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• Four circles to the kissing come, The smaller are the benter. The bend is just the inverse of The distance from the centre. Though their intrigue left Euclid dumb There's now no need for rule of thumb. Since zero bend's a dead straight line And concave bends have minus sign, The sum of squares of all four bends Is half the square of their sum.

  Frederick Soddy

  Zero, Distance, Math

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• No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own: and were some one from another world to descend and ask of the earth the most perfect creation of the logic of life, we should needs have to offer the humble comb of honey.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Humble, Men, Perfect

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Life of the Bee: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.127, 谷月社

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• A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas. As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave, with dozens of whirlwinds swirling in one’s mind, one thinks of a way out, or a way in: out of the scorching bosom of a volcano, and in – into the centre of a raging hurricane. And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease, the odds and ends of your mental surplus you carelessly throw at the world, one wants to be at a loss, in a maze; amazed, and amazingly unabashed.

  Adam Zagajewski

  Rain, Loss, Thinking

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• If the weather is too cold or rainy, I take shelter in the Regence Cafe, where I entertain myself by watching chess being played. Paris is the world center, and this cafe is the Paris centre for the finest skill at this game.

  Denis Diderot

  Learning, Games, Skills

  Denis Diderot, Jacques Barzun, Ralph Henry Bowen (2001). “Rameau's Nephew and Other Works”, p.8, Hackett Publishing

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• My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.

  Tony Blair

  Strong, Winning, Views

  "Meet the new Labour adviser: Tony Blair" by Juliette Jowit, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2012.

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• One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Midnight, Muslim Family

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• If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.

  Alexei Sayle

  Cities, Cobblers, Charity

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• So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Possibility Of Change, Miracle, Way

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “The Illustrated Walden: Thoreau Bicentennial Edition”, p.9, Penguin

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• New York is not the centre for American culture and art that it once was because of the forces of conservatism. Giuliani, capitalism - and then there was 9/11. I really believe that if I leave, it will suffer! Maybe that's why I love it here, because I feel wanted.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Art, New York, Believe

  "Nowt as queer as folk" by Kitty Empire, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2003.

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• Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Hymns, Community, Church

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• Bangalore has become a centre for healthcare.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Healthcare, Bangalore

  "Our creative minds need to be harnessed" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2008.

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• And when the universe has finished exploding all the stars will slow down, like a ball that has been thrown into the air, and they will come to a halt and they will all begin to fall towards the centre of the universe again. And then there will be nothing to stop us seeing all the stars in the world because they will all be moving towards us, gradually faster and faster, and we will know that the world is going to end soon because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.

  Mark Haddon

  Stars, Moving, Fall

  FaceBook post by Mark Haddon from Jul 26, 2012

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• life is not a race, but a shot on target: what counts is not the saving of time, but the ability to find a centre

  Susanna Tamaro

  Race, Target, Saving

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• I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Strong, Powerful, Spring

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

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• The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Graduation, Education, Teacher

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2016). “The Souls of Black Folk”, p.71, First Avenue Editions

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• For in some ways the world was like a shopping centre, and he himself was a doubtful customer, often ineffectual, being talked into buying things he didn't want, things indeed which nobody in their right mind would want to buy.

  Margaret Mahy

  Buying Things, Shopping, Mind

  Margaret Mahy (2002). “The Catalogue of the Universe”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• New York is perhaps the only place in America where you feel at the centre and not at the margins, in the provinces, so for that reason I prefer its horror to this privileged beauty, its enslavement to the freedoms which remain local and privileged and very particularized, and which do not represent a genuine antithesis.

  Italo Calvino

  New York, America, Horror

  Italo Calvino (2014). “Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre.

  Lucy Powell

  Team, Cycling, Example

  "Manchester's sporting success led to Team GB's Olympic glory" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2008.

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• In Britain, they have a lot of laws to protect you, and we enforce them very strongly so that our children can stay private figures, and the British press leave us alone, which is great. It means we can go on the Tube into the centre of London because it's quicker and more fun for the kids. We can do normal things.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Children, Fun, Mean

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• Like most citizens of popular and international urban centres, I don't take advantage of the cultural opportunities. Perhaps this comes from growing up in suburbia. Home is where you eat, sleep, read, watch television and ignore your parents. It is not where you go to the ballet and then attend a heated panel discussion about it afterwards.

  Sloane Crosley

  Growing Up, Home, Sleep

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• Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.

  Rachel Cusk

  Children, Writing, Creativity

  "Rachel Cusk: in praise of the creative writing course" by Rachel Cusk, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2013.

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• Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Men, Hemisphere

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.344, GENERAL PRESS

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