Quotes of: Rounded Keyword

I was told that this road would take me to the ocean of death, and turned back halfway. Since then crooked, round-about, godforsaken paths stretch out before me.

Definitely Maybe

What is evil?" asked the younger man. The round web, with its black center, seemed to watch them both. "A web we men weave." Ged answered.

The Farthest Shore

The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.

On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History

Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.

The Birth of Tragedy

I am always baffled by age, but to be honest with you, I feel like I am about 34. I feel better now and I am certainly healthier than I was in my early 30s. I am more rounded, too.

Julia Sawalha

When even the most strictly logical mind looks round and investigates the phenomena attending its own existence, perhaps the first fact to attract attention by its strongly marked prominence is the remarkable loneliness of man. He stands alone.

Richard Jefferies

Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the ...

Lynda Resnick

I got involved in lots of different areas round about 2007, 2008. Just working with lots of different people and stretching myself in different ways. I was working on art projects and working with other writers, just doing bits and pieces, trying to ...

Stevie Jackson

It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own.

Adam Bede

The matter could in fact have been resolved quite simply if all those round the table had been equally intelligent. But in this life that is rarely given.

Journey by Moonlight

Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.

Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of Casablanca--Bogart, Bergman, and World War II

The bird which has no knowledge of pure water, has his beak in salt water all year round.

Sufi Thought and Action

She sighed, she snored, not that she was asleep, only drowsy and heavy, drowsy and heavy, like a field of clover in the sunshine this hot July day, with the bees going round and about and the yellow butterflies.

Mrs. Dalloway

It was an unforgettable painting; it set a dense golden halo of light round the most trivial of moments, so that the moment, and all such moments, could never be completely trivial again.

The Magus

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.

Nineteen Minutes

The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness

To the Lighthouse

Stories of her children when they were small, their round little bodies barely containing their personalities, which bloomed and glittered and melted into her.

The Lost Art of Mixing

Love makes the world go round. Too bad love doesn’t make the world go other shapes, like tetrahedron.

Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat 'round the board guzzling in their greed; and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was postiviely deafening.

Peter Pan

I don't believe in prom,' I reminded her as she rounded a corner. I expertly angled my raisin bran to accomodate the g-forces. I'd done this before.

Paper Towns

Here we find further argument for Gotagga’s supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?

The Thousandfold Thought