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Quotes About Round

So, in the first round, we have an expandable duck versus a useless metal cylinder. Our contestants are running very close indeed. ... Judging has been difficult. We have weighed the merits of Junior's boiling sludge, slag heap and useless metal cylinder against the chain-mail waistcoat, bulletproof tie and Expando-Duck. It was a close call.
~ Rick Riordan
If he turned round suddenly and caught her—like a game of statues—she could say she was going to Harrods.
~ Kate Atkinson
The reason she had taken the long way round was on the unlikely chance that she might engineer an accidental meeting with Benjamin Cole.
~ Kate Atkinson
The game goes round and round, to the rattle of dice and the shuffle of play money.
~ Ken Kesey
He'd traveled in a straight line and completed a circle.
~ Ken Kesey
Maybe the Europeans once thought the earth was flat, but the Eskimos always knew it was round. One only needed to look at the earth's relatives, the sun and the moon, to know that.
~ Jean Craighead George
Her somewhat overly round head was wedged deep within her shoulders on a short body; it sat right upon it, as though there had never been such a thing as a neck, what a superfluous contraption.
~ Elias Canetti
The cookie tray goes round and round. Outside, the moon rises. The wind is still. All over town, leaves hang on trees like open hands.
~ Elizabeth Berg
The people round about are persuaded that I am, to put it as kindly as possible, exceedingly eccentric, for the news has traveled that I spend the day out of doors with a book...
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
her hull was altogether too rounded for most of those on board her.
~ Alfred Lansing
I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon.
~ Henry Rollins
He should have burped," Charlie said. "Of course he should have burped," said Mr. Wonka. "I stood there shouting, 'Burp, you silly ass, burp, or you'll never come down again! But he didn't or couldn't or wouldn't, I don't know which. Maybe he was too polite. He must be on the moon by now." On the next door, it said, SQUARE CANDIES THAT LOOK ROUND.
~ Roald Dahl
He was smiling now, and a sort of golden glow of pleasure was spreading over his round pink face. I saw his tongue come out to lick the white moustache, as though searching for one last drop of that precious whisky.
~ Roald Dahl
He was staring over the bulge of the Earth at a curved horizon; he vas seeing the Earth as round.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
He was staring over the bulge of the Earth at a curved horizon; he was seeing the Earth as round.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Pike chambered a round into his shotgun. "No," he said. "They're trapped with us.
~ Robert Crais
God built the world, but he did not know it was round.
~ Jim Jefferies
All women are lips, nothing but lips. Some pink, firmly round---a ring, a tender protection against the whole world. But these: a second ago they did not exist, and now--a knife slit--and the sweet blood will drip down.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
After the last swallow, the glass walls, deprived of humidity, decompose rather quickly, obliging drinkers to order another round immediately.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Her face is rounder than the moon
~ Emily Dickinson
Orion:Oh, how I pray that dragon will turn 'round so that I may smite it. Foaly: Smite it with what? Your secret birthmark? Orion: Don't you mock my birthmark, which I may or may not have.
~ Eoin Colfer
Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
~ Edmund Waller
My mother asks me what round I'd like to win in, and she prays for that.
~ Naseem Hamed
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.
~ Robert Brault