Centre Quotes
435 quotes by 366 authors
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Since, then, there is no objection to the mobility of the Earth, I think it must now be considered whether several motions are appropriate for…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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The two revolutions, I mean the annual revolutions of the declination and of the centre of the Earth, are not completely equal; that is the…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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The determination of the average man is not merely a matter of speculative curiosity; it may be of the most important service to the science…
— Adolphe Quetelet
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The anarchist conclusion is that every kind of human activity should begin from what from what is local and immediate, should link in a network…
— Colin Ward
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I knew Mohamed Atta had something to do in this operation. I knew definitely that the White House and World Trade Centre would be hit.…
— Zacarias Moussaoui
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The heart is that which lies at the centre of things, and is also formless. It is simple awareness devoid of movement to and fro,…
— Ajahn Thate
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I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.
— Rachel Weisz
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I was never the girl who walked down the centre of the hallway snapping people out of her way.
— Piper Perabo
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I am no saviour. I’m absolutely the last person on the planet who can practically help. I don’t know how to make the different types…
— Tom Hiddleston
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The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what…
— Emily Blunt
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Instead of shooting arrows at someone elses target, which Ive never been very good at, I make my own target around wherever my arrow happens…
— Brian Eno
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It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a…
— Mel Smith
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When I am asked about influences, I always say I bow down to Fred Astaire, because when you look at him dancing you never look…
— Alan Rickman
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This is the United spirit: you can play everywhere. If you want to win, you have to accept it. You can see Antonio Valencia playing…
— Patrice Evra
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That means I can drive a flock of sheep through the town centre, drink for free in no less than 64 pubs and get a…
— Andrew Flintoff
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
— Barbara Hepworth
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is…
— Hippocrates
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Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the seesaw has neither…
— Terry Pratchett
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We do not live in centred space anymore, but have to create our own centres.
— Northrop Frye
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The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes…
— William James
Who Wrote These Centre Quotes
366 authors contributed a total of 435 Centre Quotes, led by these top contributors: