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Digital lights in the center of the round door began
~ Bill O'Reilly
At her feet was a largish basket woven of twigs. He didn't look into it; he couldn't. Every now and then her shoeless foot would nip out from beneath the dark hem of her skirt and give the basket a little push, and because of its rounded bottom, the basket rocked for a time. Then the green foot would appear again, and start the rocking over.
~ Gregory Maguire
This notary was a little man, completely round, round in every part. His head looked like a ball nailed onto another ball, supported by two legs that were so tiny and so short that they also closely resembled balls.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Love is all there is, it makes the world go 'round Love and only love, it can't be denied No matter what you think about it You just won't be able to do without it Take a tip from one who's tried
~ Bob Dylan
The castle was round and about them, widespread and as unchartable as a dark day.
~ Mervyn Peake
I come now to Berkeley's empirical arguments. To begin with, it is a sign of weakness to combine empirical and logical arguments, for the latter, if valid, make the former superfluous.1 If I am contending that a square cannot be round, I shall not appeal to the fact that no Square in any known city is round. But as we have rejected the logical arguments, it becomes necessary to consider the empirical arguments on their merits.
~ Bertrand Russell
Now it's 1967. Nasser and the Arabs are saying to themselves: The Jews have beaten us in Round One and Round Two, but we will wipe them out for good in Round Three.
~ Steven Pressfield
The moon was round and white, sitting small at the top of the sky. It seemed the right size to sit in the bowl on the bullet mold. That was what I wished. I wished for the moon instead of lead.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
John shrugged. "It always seemed silly to me to desire a woman who cannot converse any better than a sheep." Belle leaned forward, her eyes glittering mischievously. "Really? I would have thought you'd prefer such a woman,considering your difficulty with polite conversation." "Touche, my lady. I cede this round to you.
~ Julia Quinn
showcase magnificent eyes: big and round and pale whiskey in color, set under arched black eyebrows and topped with an awning of long, dark lashes.
~ Faye Kellerman
The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.
~ Ferdinand Magellan
La noche se tendía a descansar sobre la tierra, y era una noche de estancias negras, transparentes y redondas: más negras, más anchas y menos transparentes mientras más lejanas; estancias como las ondas del agua de un pozo donde hubiera caído el mundo.
~ Fernando Del Paso
He walked around the blast barrier to the entrance to the decontamination facility. "Wait!" the Acme called out. "You need to go through Protocol and wear a protective suit!" Mac ignored him. "Moms, if that thing is contagious with something, I breached containment with my forty-mike-mike round that blew its arm off." "Roger that," Moms said.
~ Bob Mayer
GOLDBERG. Of course, now. Time's getting on. Round the corner, remember? Mention my name.
~ Harold Pinter
Misconceptions are unavoidable now that we've eaten of the Tree of Knowledge. But Paradise is locked and bolted, and the cherubim stands behind us. We have to go on and make the journey round the world to see if it is perhaps open somewhere at the back.
~ Heinrich von Kleist
The traditional family table is round. No corners. No sides. No head. No tail. Everything is smooth. The food is in the center, and each family member reaches over the same distance. Someone you love is next to you on each side, and no one is last or at the end. The person farthest away from you is also the person facing you.
~ Deng Ming-Dao
the realm we are in—samsara—is an ocean of unbearable suffering. There is one way, and one way only, out of samsara's ceaseless round of birth and death, which is the path to liberation.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can't] save a single person.
~ Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.
~ Honore de Balzac
I love the short story for being round, suggestive, insinuating, microcosmic. The story has both the inconvenience and the fascination of new beginnings.
~ Luisa Valenzuela
I know we're not the first to discover this,' Gene Cernan radioed back from about 29,000 kilometres, 'but we'd like to confirm, from the crew of America, that the world is round.
~ Bill Bryson
He had a broad face and a little round belly, that shook, when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly.
~ Clement Clarke Moore
Notre tête est ronde pour permettre à la pensée de changer de direction.
~ Francis Picabia
Pursue, keep up with, circle round and round your life, as a dog does his master's chaise. Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
~ Henry David Thoreau