Rounds Quotes - Page 29

• A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.

  Rex Stout

  Writing, Character, Born

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• I knew I had him in the first round. Almighty God was with me. I want everyone to bear witness, I am the greatest! I'm the greatest thing that ever lived. I don't have a mark on my face, and I upset Sonny Liston, and I just turned twenty-two years old. I must be the greatest. I showed the world. I talk to God everyday. I know the real God. I shook up the world, I'm the king of the world. You must listen to me. I am the greatest! I can't be beat!

  Muhammad Ali

  Kings, Real, Years

  "Sound and Fury : Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship". Book by Dave Kindred, 2007.

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• Frazier soaked it all up like a sponge. When they arrived in Manila it was the same story. Ali poured scorn on his opponent. Humiliated him. Joe had the heart of a lion but verbally he was out of his depth when Ali got going. One time, as fight day approached, Ali spotted Frazier on a hotel balcony, grabbed a security guard's gun and fired some rounds at him. Everybody knew it wasn't live ammo but it still startled the hell out of Joe.] Go back in your hole, Gorilla, You gonna scare the people! Come out again and I'm gonna kill ya before time!”

  Muhammad Ali

  Heart, Fighting, Gun

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• I’m young, I’m handsome, I’m fast, I’m pretty, and can’t possibly be beat. They must fall in the round I call.

  Muhammad Ali

  Fall, Handsome, Beats

  Twitter post from Jan 26, 2011

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• Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

  Walter Pater

  Wall, Real, Voice

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.153, Courier Corporation

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• The biggest failures come round and spring ultimate surprises of survival.

  Jack White

  Spring, Survival, Surprise

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• I love the Arctic Monkeys . Who doesn't? I'd love to see them live, but haven't got round to it yet. I never get to see bands because I'm never in the same town for more than two seconds.

  Jack White

  Two, Band, Monkeys

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• Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way 'round.

  Walter Annenberg

  Mistake, Way, Rich

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• Institutions work this way. A son is murdered by the police, and nothing is done. The institutions send the victim's family on a merry-go-round, going from one agency to another, until they wear out and give up. this is a very effective way to beat down poor and oppressed people, who do not have the time to prosecute their cases. Time is money to poor people. To go to Sacramento means loss of a day's pay - often a loss of job. If this is a democracy, obviously it is a bourgeois democracy limited to the middle and upper classes. Only they can afford to participate in it.

  Huey Newton

  Jobs, Giving Up, Mean

  Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.128, Penguin

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• Thousands of people are being buried and no one attends the funerals,' said one of the soldiers. 'In peacetime it's the other way round: one coffin and a hundred people carrying flowers.

  Vasily Grossman

  Flower, People, Funeral

  Vasily Grossman (2011). “Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.135, Random House

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• I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Moving, Eyebrows, Bird

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• Do I walk? Have I feet still? I raise my eyes, I let them move round, and turn myself with them, one circle, one circle, and I stand in the midst. All is as usual. Only the Militiaman Stanislaus Katczinsky has died. Then I know nothing more.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Moving, Eye, Circles

  Erich Maria Remarque (1997). “All Quiet on the Western Front”

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• Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places like that. It doesn't mean a damn thing. After they've eaten that meal, then what? It lasts for only a day. After the $200,000,000 is gone, then what? It goes round and round in circles. You can pour money in forever. After Peru, then Harlem, then Britain. There is no one concert. We would have to dedicate the rest of our lives to one world concert tour, and I'm not ready for it. Not in this lifetime, anyway.

  John Lennon

  Music, Mean, Circles

  Playboy Interview, January 1981.

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• The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  World, Wheels, Cycles

  Benjamin Disraeli (1881). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales by the Right Honorable B. Disraeli: Endymion”

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• I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.

  Vera Brittain

  Easter, Wind, Oxford

  Vera Brittain (2009). “Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study Of The Years 1900-1925”, p.62, Hachette UK

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• I'm like Muhammed Ali. When he said he would knock someone out in the fourth round, he did it.

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic

  Said, Fourth

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• I’ve never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should be discovered. It’s more interesting to discover the sex in a woman than it is to have it thrown at you, like a Marilyn Monroe or those types. To me they are rather vulgar and obvious.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Sex, Thinking, Interesting

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• Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of view and both be right. The difference of our positions will show stars in your window I cannot even imagine. Your sky may burn with light, while mine, at the same moment, spreads beautiful to darkness. Still we must choose how we separately corner the circling universe of our experience. Once chosen, our cornering will determine the message of any star and darkness we encounter.

  June Jordan

  Beautiful, Stars, Mean

  June Jordan (2004). “Soulscript: a collection of African American poetry”, Broadway

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• Above all, TRIBES is fun, and even kind of sexy... in that every round features an Opportunity for Reproduction, which is the main aim of the game, as it is in most of Nature

  David Brin

  Sexy, Fun, Opportunity

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• To sing a simple round is truly an enlightening experience.

  Phil Lesh

  Simple, Enlightening

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• The euro Titanic has now hit the iceberg - and there simply aren't enough lifeboats to go round.

  Nigel Farage

  Enough, Iceberg, Lifeboats

  YouTube Chanel "europarl"/ "The Genius of Mutual Indebtedness - Nigel Farage", www.youtube.com. June 13, 2012.

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• You know that a plan was dreamed up by politicians and pollsters - and not by, oh, anyone who knows what they are talking about - when the numbers are nice and round with a catchy ring to them.

  Jerry Taylor

  Nice, Talking, Numbers

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• It art can only succeed through the cooperating imagination and intelligence of its consumers, who fill out, for themselves, the artist's world and make it round, and whose own special genius partly determine the ultimate glory of it.

  William H. Gass

  Art, Imagination, Empathy

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• It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.

  Alfred Douglas

  Insulting, Pay, England

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• The ball is round, make sure you pass it around

  John Wright

  Balls, Coaches

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