Rounds Quotes - Page 35

• So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books had prepared me for. Fate had to do with blind seers, oracles, choruses announcing death, not with panting next to the refrigerator, fumbling with condoms, waiting in a Honda parked round the corner and surreptitious encounters in a Lisbon hotel. Only the written word exists, everything one must do oneself is without form, subject to contingency without rhyme or reason. It takes too long. And if it ends badly the metre isn't right, and there's no way to cross things out.

  Cees Nooteboom

  Real, Book, Fate

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• Currently, 94 out of 100 of us pay the Social Security tax all year round.

  Nick Clooney

  Years, Pay, Social

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• Suicide is the means of men whose resilience has been eaten away by rust, the rust of the daily round. They were born for action, but they have delayed their action; so action turns back on them with the swing of a pendulum. Suicide is an act, the act of those who have not been able to accomplish others. It is an act of faith, like all acts. Faith in one’s neighbor, in the existence of one’s neighbor, in the reality of the self and the other selves.

  Pierre Drieu La Rochelle

  Suicide, Mean, Reality

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• The earth is round, smoking is linked to lung cancer, gravity makes things fall, and humans are warming the planet. Scientists strongly agree on all of these.

  Scott Mandia

  Cancer, Fall, Smoking

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• The state owned monopolies are among the greatest millstones round the neck of the economy. Liberals must stress at all times the virtues of the market, not only for efficiency but to enable the widest possible choice. Much of what Mrs Thatcher and Sir Keith Joseph say and do is in the mainstream of liberal philosophy.

  Jo Grimond

  Stress, Philosophy, Choices

  "The Future of Liberalism: The Inaugural Eighty Club Lecture". Book by Jo Grimond, 1980.

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• We can set our deeds to the music of a grateful heart, and seek to round our lives into a hymn — the melody of which will be recognized by all who come in contact with us, and the power of which shall not be evanescent, like the voice of the singer, but perennial, like the music of the spheres.

  William Mackergo Taylor

  Grateful, Heart, Hymns

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 290. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• A polka-dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living life, and also the form of the moon, which is calm. Round, soft, colourful, senseless and unknowing. Polka-dots can't stay alone; like the communicative life of people, two or three polka-dots become movement... Polka-dots are a way to infinity.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Live Life, Moon, Two

  "Manhattan suicide addict". Book by Yayoi Kusama, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2005.

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• A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow.

  Steve Lacy

  Athlete, Artist, Dancer

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• The world is truly round and seems to start and end with those we love.

  Nelson Mandela

  World, Ends, Those We Love

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• It (Hinduism) is like the boa constrictor of the Indian forests. When a petty enemy appears to worry it, it winds round its opponent, crushes it in its folds, and finally causes it to disappear in its capaciousinterior....Hinduism has embraced Sikhism in its folds; the still comparatively young religion is making a vigorous struggle for life, but its ultimate destruction is, it is apprehended, inevitable without State support.

  Max Arthur Macauliffe

  Crush, Struggle, Wind

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• If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Hurting Someone, Edgy, Ifs

  Danielle LaPorte (2012). “The Fire Starter Sessions: A Soulful + Practical Guide to Creating Success on Your Own Terms”, p.209, Harmony

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• It is hard for a flat thing to understand a round one.

  Arthur Dove

  Flats, Hard

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• President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner have agreed to play a round of golf together. Imagine the two of them at the end of that golf game? Boehner will be crying over his score and Obama will be giving three explanations as to why his score is actually better than it appears.

  Jay Leno

  Golf, Games, Play

  "Economy Panel". "This Week", abcnews.go.com. June 12, 2011.

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• Since you walked out on me I'm getting lovelier by the hour. I glow like a corpse in the dark. No one sees how round and sharp my eyes have grown how my carcass looks like a glass urn, how I hold up things in the rags of my hands, the way I can stand through crippled by lust. No, there's just your cruelty circling my head like a bright rotting halo.

  Nina Cassian

  Broken Heart, Eye, Dark

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• Remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.

  James J. Corbett

  Determination, Fighting, Men

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• Unconsciously, I fell in love with the small round sphere, with its amusing and capricious rebounds which sometimes play with me.

  Fabien Barthez

  Play, Spheres, Sometimes

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• Well, it seems that one day Dylan was drivin' up to San Francisco from New Orleans or somewhere, when our record [House of the Rising Sun] came over his radio. When it was announced he said to Joan Baez -- who was with him at the time -- 'This'll be the first time I've heard this version', although it was number one in the States. So he listened to it, stopped the car, ran round the car five times, banged his head on the bumper and began leapin' about shouting 'It's great! It's great!'

  Eric Burdon

  New Orleans, San Francisco, Numbers

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• The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round one.

  Douglas Crockford

  Wheels, Good Things, Reinventing

  Response to the feed "Scripting News for 12/20/2006", scripting.wordpress.com. December 20, 2006.

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• To know the laws that govern the winds, and to know that you know them, will give you an easy mind on your voyage round the world; otherwise you may tremble at the appearance of every cloud.

  Joshua Slocum

  Clouds, Wind, Law

  Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.146, Applewood Books

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• He's a complete fighter. He has some flaws, of course, but he has a good stand up game, good takedowns and a good ground game. He's a complete fighter, and that makes him dangerous. He hits hard, but I believe I can stop him. I believe I can finish this fight earlier. I'm not underestimating him, but I've learned a lot in my past fights. I have learned a lot in my fight against (Chris) Weidman, so it's likely that I will finish this fight before the fifth round. Whatever it takes. I'm training hard on my grappling skills and my striking, so I want to finish him with a knockout or a submission.

  Lyoto Machida

  Believe, Fighting, Past

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• I was born on the 5th April 1942. On Good Friday. Round about crucifixion time. Archbishop Ussher, a man for dates, who calculated that the world began on September 27th 4004 BC, says the crucifixion took place at three o'clock in the afternoon on Good Friday in the year 33 AD. I was right on time.

  Peter Greenaway

  Friday, Men, Years

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• You know, when I was nineteen, Grandpa took me on a roller coaster. Up, down, up, down. Oh, what a ride! I always wanted to go again. You know, it was just so interesting to me that a ride could make me so frightened, so scared, so sick, so excited, and so thrilled all together! Some didn't like it. They went on the merry-go-round. That just goes around. Nothing. I like the roller coaster. You get more out of it.

  Lowell Ganz

  Grandpa, Sick, Interesting

  "Fictional character: Grandma". "Parenthood", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• That MAC gun can put a round clean through a Covenant Capital Ship.

  Avery Johnson

  Gun, Covenant, Ships

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• All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity.

  George Washington

  America, Office, Connections

  George Washington, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1931). “The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799”

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• A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Boots, Half

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