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Quotes About Round

there was alienation in the standing consciousness that his squareness would not fit the round hole that had been prepared for him.
~ Thomas Hardy
No language meant no chance of co-opting them in to what their round and flaxen invaders were calling Salvation.
~ Thomas Pynchon
He held up a hand as we rounded a corner onto a busy street. "Red dragons?" I whispered. "No. Mimes.
~ Katie MacAlister
I don't know what kind of life we'll have together, with me always flying off in one direction and you in the other." I smiled. "It's a good thing the world's round
~ Kenneth Oppel
And the more details I added in order to round out the figure of the "actor," the more of a "character" he became.
~ César Aira
As round as appil was his face.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
The old blood is bold blood, the wide world round.
~ Byron Webber
When that bastard calls back, you tell him he's won this round. I'll marry him. But I don't take well to being blackmailed, and tell him I intend to spend the rest of my life making him miserable, got that?
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
It's love that makes the world go round - otherwise it would be flat.
~ Jay Woodman
he argued, was not perfectly round but "in the shape of a pear
~ Charles C. Mann
Existence can be rearranged. A man can be many things. I am special and free. And the world is round round round.
~ Tom Robbins
Beer does not satisfy magic, however. So the magic ordered a round of Harvey Wallbangers. But it takes more than vodka to fuel magic. It takes risks. It takes EXTREMES.
~ Tom Robbins
Her hair was as straight and red as ironed ketchup. Her astonishingly round breast jiggled ever so slightly, like balls balanced on the noses of Valium eating seals.
~ Tom Robbins
A fact is immovable. That there are those who believe the world is square does not make the world less round.
~ Tom Wescott
Then my abuelita booms out words, loud and clear. She always says the words should be round as dimes and as wild as blossoms blooming.
~ Tony Johnston
Sunflowers and seashells and logarithmic spirals (said Kerewin); sweep of galaxies and the singing curve of the universe (said Kerewin); the oscilating wave thrumming in the nothingness of every atom's heart (said Kerewin); did you think I could build a square house? So the round shell house holds them all in its spiralling embrace. Noise and riot, peace and quiet, all is music in this sphere.
~ Keri Hulme
His small features huddled in the center of his round face like the holes in a bowling ball.
~ Carolyn McSparren
old men have a name for them, but I do not remember exactly. It is something like corns." The young man paused, as if to be told the right word, but when he had no reply, he went on again, being obviously eager to show off his knowledge about arrowheads. "We find these little round things in the old buildings. Often there are many—many—of them in the boxes and drawers.
~ George R. Stewart
as round as the moon.
~ Gerald Durrell
It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
~ Pete Rose
Hello? You tracking at all? Or were you planning on sleeping through this round. The lids on that red stare lifted. I'm not sleeping. Meditating. Whatever. I wasn't meditating. Fine. Psychically manipulating energy fields—— You make me dizzy when you pace. It's vertigo diversion.
~ J.R. Ward
Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.
~ Dean Rusk
We really just didn't realize the diversity of planetary types in our solar system. Pluto looked like a misfit because it was the only one we saw. And just as a Chihuahua is still a dog, these ice dwarfs are still planetary bodies. They're large enough to make themselves round by self gravity, and they surely pass the test of planethood.
~ Alan Stern
every pirate and privateer has lurking within him the soul of an accountant. Though some would say 'tis the other way round.
~ Neal Stephenson