Round Quotes

I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

He had a broad face and a little round belly, that shook, when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly.

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.

But clearly, this is what this is about. It's about pushing the security bubble out. It's about rooting out every last guy, so that there's not even somebody who can fire a single, solitary RPG round from some little qalat out here.

I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can.

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

It is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.

A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest.

So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round.

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball and they tell you to hit it square.

My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.

The last two years we got beat in this round. They came out with the motivation to win.

To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes was indeed an intellectual treat.

On the course, I sometimes eat a little sandwich or a slow-release energy bar - one on the front nine and one on the back nine. You're out there five hours, so you have to keep eating. You're going to burn at least 1,000 calories. I'll try to take in about 400-600 calories during a round and drink water.

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.

Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.

There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.

You know, you try to be diverse, and try to have fun and round things out.

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it.

I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.

I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh.

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

I once stood in the middle of New York city watching my name go round the electronic zipper sign in Times Square and I felt pretty thrilled, but not quite as thrilled as I felt when I saw my name in the 'Examiner' for the first time.

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

All things come round to him who will but wait.

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.