Circling Quotes

80 Circling quotes by 71 unique authors

It was only when we were in that bed, high above the world - then I thought the birds could have been circling around our… — Kathy Acker
The Russians will never be able to get their missiles thought the dense protective layer of delayed flights circling over the United States in complex,… — Dave Barry
At the end of the archana, prostrate, then get up and, remaining on the same spot, turn around clockwise 3 times just as if circling… — Mata Amritanandamayi
I've been circling the wagons down at Times Square, trying to fill up this hole in my soul but nothing fits in there. — John Hiatt
I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write… — Amy Hempel
In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
The Holy Spirit, out of compassion for our weakness, comes to us even when we are impure. And if He finds our intellect truly praying… — Evagrius Ponticus
With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling. — Heinrich Heine
Do I really believe that my work is crucial to the planet's survival? Of course not. But it's as important to me as catching that… — Steven Pressfield
My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders.… — Buffalo Bill
Religionists are clinging to little, positive, verbal, formal versions of the moral law... while the laws of the Law, the great circling truths whose only… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A lot of times, you're circling around a lot of things, and then you find that one person, or that little piece of dialogue, and… — Nick Kroll
The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body, animal,… — Nicole Brossard
The imagination ... that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know… — Paul Stanley
Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm. — William Gibson
He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless… — Cormac McCarthy
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing at… — Sara Teasdale
I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of… — John Steinbeck
I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the earth, gravity their only tie to the planet. Lonely… — Haruki Murakami
The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North American tourists, bound… — Che Guevara
Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards. — Rick Riordan
There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme — Jacqueline Carey

Who Wrote These Circling Quotes

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