Ellipse Quotes

#1. If you think it is hard to get humans to follow traffic laws, imagine convincing an asteroid to move along an ellipse.

Stephen Hawking

#2. His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever no straight unbroken line, for the rectilinear belongs only to Geometry and not to Nature and Life.

Hermann Hesse

#3. Now, the earth occupies one of the foci of the ellipse, and so at one point in its course is at its apogee, that is, at its farthest from the sun,

Jules Verne

#4. Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

Victor Hugo

#5. The ellipse is as aimless as that,
Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear
In our present. Its flexing is its account,
Return to the point of no return.

John Ashbery

#6. The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the sun at one of the two foci.

Johannes Kepler

#7. Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#8. Man is not a circle with a single center; he is an ellipse with two focii. Facts are one, ideas are the other.

Victor Hugo

#9. You don't even know these people in your blurbs. Most of them are dead and Stephen King is probably going to press charges. We're really going to need to increase your visits. - MY CURRENT SHRINK

Jenny Lawson

#10. Her heart was walking around the building with Kirby. And her jacket was still in his car.

Regina Duke

#11. Only reprobates father children and then abandon them.

Ben Shapiro

#12. There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#13. No matter how much you want to say you've got all these plans ahead. The moment is all you got.

Uriah Hall

#14. For the rest of her life, hope was going to smell a little bit like bacon.

Debora Geary

#15. In the morning I stand up, scratch a little bit, then I light a candle and I meditate. Every morning. I've been meditating for maybe 20 years. I meditate so I can make choices; so I'm not a sheep all the time. So I can see better than what everyone else is doing.

Russell Simmons

#16. Prism! Where is that baby?

Oscar Wilde

#17. In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.

John Lancaster Spalding