Centre Quotes
435 quotes by 357 authors
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I was sitting in my office when someone called to tell me two light planes had collided with the World Trade Centre. I turned on…
— Tom Wolfe
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Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's Centre Georges Pompidou of 1971-1977 - the true prototype of the modern museum as popular architectural spectacle - wound up…
— Martin Filler
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Bangalore has become a centre for healthcare.
— Geoff Mulgan
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon…
— William Butler Yeats
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If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice…
— Banksy
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The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.
— William Butler Yeats
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And when the universe has finished exploding all the stars will slow down, like a ball that has been thrown into the air, and they…
— Mark Haddon
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life is not a race, but a shot on target: what counts is not the saving of time, but the ability to find a centre
— Susanna Tamaro
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...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.
— Laurie R. King
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The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
— Roland Barthes
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I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound…
— Charlotte Bronte
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The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her…
— Edith Wharton
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How we are almost nothing. We think, in our youth, we are the centre of the universe, but we simply respond, go this way or…
— Michael Ondaatje
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Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.
— Unknown Author
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All unwillingly I opened my eyes - then I opened them wider, and lifted my head. The heat, my weariness, were quite forgotten. Piercing the…
— Sarah Waters
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The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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For in some ways the world was like a shopping centre, and he himself was a doubtful customer, often ineffectual, being talked into buying things…
— Margaret Mahy
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[...] We have to realize that this wound [of loneliness] is inherent in the human condition and that what we have to do is walk…
— Jean Vanier
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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Boredom forces you to ring people you haven’t seen for eighteen years and halfway through the conversation you remember why you left it so long.…
— Jeremy Clarkson
Who Wrote These Centre Quotes
357 authors contributed a total of 435 Centre Quotes, led by these top contributors: