Round Quotes
1869 Round quotes by 1325 unique authors
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Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round about 1894. With…
— Stephen Fry
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Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root.
— Loren Eiseley
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Corporations no longer try to fit square pegs into round holes; they just fit them into square cubicles.
— Robert Breault
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I like to be lean. If I get too bulky I can't move well and I like to move. When I'm not training, I get…
— Channing Tatum
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I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
— Edgar Guest
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In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for…
— Paul Valery
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Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as…
— William Butler Yeats
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Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds…
— James Russell Lowell
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I'm a tad paranoid. I think the person in front of me is following me the long way round.
— Dennis Miller
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Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long faded from the…
— James Joyce
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Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring.
— Robert Burns
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You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life,…
— Elbert Hubbard
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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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If you look at eggs, you will see that each one is almost round but not quite ... Nature's way of distinguishing eggs from large…
— Robert Benchley
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Some people would like me to be round again.
— Karl Lagerfeld
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Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.
— George Crabbe
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Well, well, perhaps I am a bit of a talker. A popular fellow such as I am -- my friends get round me -- we…
— Kenneth Grahame
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten. They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want…
— Alan Bennett
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What we call barbecuing in this country is actually direct grilling. In many countries, it also means cooking in an enclosed box with a heat…
— Jamie Oliver
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As a chamber hung round about with looking-glasses represents the face upon every turn, thus all the world doth the mercy and the bounty of…
— Anthony Burgess
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I take my dog, Fideo, out for a hike in Runyon Canyon three times a week. It's about 45 minutes round-trip with a variation of…
— Ana Ortiz
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I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.
— Gabourey Sidibe
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Now, we don't get rid of it in round one because we don't think that that's politically smart, and we don't think that's the right…
— Newt Gingrich
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There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in…
— Queen Elizabeth II
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There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.
— John Milton
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