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Quotes About Center

Against the Word the unstilled world still whirledAbout the center of the silent Word.
~ T. S. Eliot
Thanks in large part to reduced transportation costs, San Francisco matured from a dust-blown, mud-lined tent camp with gambling saloons into a brick-walled, warehouse-filled commercial center with gambling saloons.
~ T.J. Stiles
In the center of the kitchen hung a wrought iron pot hanger
~ Tanya Anne Crosby
The Bible ascribes reasoning and thinking to the heart because the heart is the center of one's being. The heart is where we think, grieve, rejoice, love, hate, desire, fear, pray, and so forth. "The heart is the wellspring of life" (Prov. 4:23).
~ Tedd Tripp
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.
~ Yann Martel
The value of a Bismack Biyombo is the speed and agility that he has at the center position.
~ Frank Vogel
The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.
~ Charles Spurgeon
I guess the biggest thing is that I committed to a spiritual center before I do anything else. And I put some daily things in my life into practice and I maintain that, to make sure that I don't drop the ball.
~ Kathy Mattea
Los Angeles has been known as the center of creativity but has often been equally known for the absence of spirituality.
~ Erwin McManus
We're both accustomed to being the center of attention. We're both accustomed to being spoiled by the people around us. And we don't expect to have to compete with somebody for all of that.
~ Jim Lampley
Barack Obama II is born in the Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu. His birth is recorded in two local newspapers.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
I was at Harvard Medical School and there were not a lot of, kind of, community health options, and I wound up at - sort of in Harvard Community Health Center for various reasons.
~ Jill Stein
Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.
~ Mary McCarthy
Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.
~ Christian Bale
You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs like tug boats and morals that would surprise a zoo animal.
~ Jeremy Clarkson
The solar system is off center and consequently man is too.
~ Harlow Shapley
If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the board, rooks will dominate the seventh rank, and pawns turn into queens.
~ Irving Chernev
the pole's center was a gleaming lump about the size of a person's head, which any Spacer would recognize as a small nickel-iron asteroid, as common in space as dead leaves were on the reforested surface. But rare down here, even after the Hard Rain.
~ Neal Stephenson
The color of the land fades gradually from dark jungle green to pale green and then a sere reddish-brown as the tail extends from the fat center of the island out to the end, and the soil becomes dryer.
~ Neal Stephenson
If we assume that the arms grew outwards from the center, then there must be something in that center that imbues each of the six arms with the same organizing principle
~ Neal Stephenson
The collapse of the lighthouse must have been astonishing, like watching the World Trade Center fall over.
~ Neal Stephenson
cool stars are red. Tepid stars are white. Hot stars are blue. Very hot stars are still blue. How about the very, very hot places, like the 15-million-degree center of the Sun? Blue. To an astrophysicist, red-hot foods and red-hot lovers both leave room for improvement.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
If you feed a black hole, its event horizon (that boundary beyond which light cannot escape) grows in direct proportion to its mass, which means that as a black hole's mass increases, the average density within its event horizon actually decreases. Meanwhile, as far as we can tell from our equations, the material content of a black hole has collapsed to a single point of near-infinite density at its center.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson