Quote by Noah Gordon

“Oh vanity! You are the lever with which Archimedes wanted to raise the earthly globe!”

— Mikhail Lermontov

Archimedes said that with a long enough lever and a solid enough place to stand, he could move the world. He could have stood…

— Neil Gaiman

“Give me a place to stand, a lever long enough and a fulcrum. and I can move the Earth”

— Archimedes

“She was secure in the miniature world she had built; the two other men seemed distant planets, each in his own sphere of memory…

— Michael Ondaatje

“Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who set the planets in motion.”

— Isaac Newton

Archimedes, that he might transport the entire globe ... demanded only a point that was firm and immovable; so also, I shall be entitled…

— Rene Descartes

“But I think that I have already been moving too long in a sphere which is not my own. Flying fishes can hold out…

— Ivan Turgenev

“I have seen landscapes...which, under a particular light, made me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head over the next…

— C.S. Lewis

“She couldn't break the orbit.”

— Victoria Schwab

“To conserve energy, her little planet stopped spinning.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Her weight is delicate in my arms, like a leaf carried on the quaking back of this monstrous river. I chose to protect her…

— Daniel H. Wilson

“Even now, I could no more chart her influence than I could the gravitational powers that rule the tides. I suppose that could be…

— Aria Beth Sloss