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I did a TV show called 'Unit 1.' It wasn't a bad experience, but yes, the first season I didn't have a good time because I was coming from Nicolas Winding Refn films where the corners were sharp and radical, but now we had round corners.
~ Mads Mikkelsen
When I heard the idea of a Slayer wine, I tasted the wines they suggested for us. To be honest, I was a bit skeptical at first before I tasted it, but once I tried it, I thought, 'You know what? This is actually really good. A really fruity and round type of flavor for a red wine.' It's very flavorful and tasted awesome!
~ Tom Araya
Brackets come in various shapes, types and names: 1 round brackets (which we call brackets, and the Americans call parentheses) 2 square brackets [which we call square brackets, and the Americans call brackets]
~ Lynne Truss
When Odysseus speaks of the measureless sea and the boundless earth, it is all so true and human, so inwardly and closely felt, and so mysterious. What use is it if I, like any schoolboy, can now parrot that the earth is round? Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dear Wilhelm, I have thought a great deal about Man's desire to go out into the world, make new discoveries and go a-wandering, and, on the other hand, about that deep-seated impulse to be contented with limits that are imposed, and gladly to proceed as custom dictates, with no interest in what goes beyond the daily round.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Listen to Professor Compton, would you? He's a professor and he has a neck beard. You don't so he wins this round.
~ John Birmingham
She was a round, curvy woman who, for Parker, brought to mind a figure assembled from a selection of soft fruits. Aside
~ John Connolly
It may be that no life is found, Which only to one engine bound Falls off, but cycles always round.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Why crown your own rack of pork when a butcher could do it for you? To start, it's way easier to brine two individual racks than a giant round crown (and yes, you definitely want to brine the meat).
~ Claire Saffitz
Often, entrepreneurs don't build a board until they are forced to by their VCs when they raise their first financing round. This is dumb, as you are missing the opportunity to add at least one person to the team who - as a board member - can help you navigate the early process of building your company and raising that first round.
~ Brad Feld
The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the wraith of his imagination, revealed his discovery to them: 'The world is round, like an orange.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If you keep pettin' me, I'm likely to take it as a sign yer up for another round.
~ Mandy M. Roth
THE GUYS IN THE OLD DAYS WHO BELIEVED THE EARTH WAS ROUND MUST HAVE HAD A VERY ROUGH TIME WITH ACADEMIA
~ Jacque Fresco
I knew that things human would lose all love of this place, as they had lost their love of so many ruins in the country round.
~ Anne Rice
Life is a nonstop circle; learn to live it from the first round.
~ Lucero Isaac
An old trailer flashed by, the round sort that had always looked to her like a thermos bottle, as if the people inside needed protection against rot.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
The evidence of the senses further corroborates the fact that the earth is round. How else would eclipses of the moon show segments shaped as we see them? In eclipses the outline is always curved; and since it is the interposition of the earth that makes the eclipse, the form of this line will be caused by the form of the earth's surface, which is therefore spherical.… The text was in Arabic, but the author was a Greek.2 The man's name, Gerard noted, was Aristotle.
~ Arthur Herman
The sun was out, dappling the nettles round the tree, though it was a green underwaterish kind of light which seemed rather curious.
~ B.B.
And for a dreamer of words, what calm there is in the word round. How peacefully it makes one's mouth, lips, and the being of breath become round. Because this too should be spoken by a philosopher who believes in the poetic substance of speech.
~ Gaston Bachelard
When uncultured minds, confined to a narrow range of personal experience, are under the pressure of continued misfortune, their inward life is apt to become a perpetually repeated round of sad and bitter thoughts: the same words, the same scenes are revolved over and over again, the same mood accompanies them—the end of the year finds them as much what they were at the beginning as if they were machines set to a recurrent series of movements.
~ George Eliot
The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither.
~ Kenneth Grahame
I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.
~ Johannes Kepler
Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; And 'tis joy that moves the pinion When the wheel of time goes round.
~ Friedrich Schiller