Round Quotes

When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.

If you look round Hollywood there's no end of white smiles and six packs. Long lines of beautiful people lining up to be incredible on film.

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'

That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.

I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

One step outside the gate, and we are among the sand-hills that stretch for miles and miles round Vera Cruz.

There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.

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 really round and soft.

Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

When I was little, I wasn't so little. I had a big old round belly and I was really clumsy, but I was super confident.

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.

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.

Remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.

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.