Top 25 Oblong Quotes
#1. See this?" Isa pulled something dark and oblong out of her purse. Chance's mouth twitched.
"Turbo Vagisil?"
"No, it's a taser!
Jeaniene Frost
#2. He stops, looks up at this window, and I can see the white oblong of his face. We look at each other. I have no rose to toss, he has no lute. But it's the same kind of hunger.
Margaret Atwood
#3. The oblong of light is back and motes of dust swirl in the sunshine slating down the wall of books. Golden pollen.
David Mitchell
#4. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages; to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and in the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating.
George Orwell
#5. The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything.
Stephen Leacock
#6. In life there are squares and there are circles, sometimes it's best to be an oblong
Benny Bellamacina
#7. Razor clams are large, oblong clams, although not as big as geoducks.
Tom Douglas
#8. We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong.
Carl Sandburg
#9. Once again, there was talk of winning every game, and once again, we proved to be human, because an oblong ball takes funny bounces.
Michael Pinball Clemons
#10. Entropy
The Disintegrating Integration of
Cheez-Whiz Squirts Insipid Inspiration
Quoth the Oblong Eclipse of
Nether-Knowledge Never Knowing
Decaying Matter in a Decaying Orbit
Orangutans of Science
Study Ignorance of What
The Cows Already Know.
Ubiquitous Bubba
#11. God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
Abraham Cahan
#12. Oblong stones sink
slow and sideways. Shaped
by the weight of waves,
dutifully vibrating nature's
lunar-bound graces,
they wash ashore only for
closed palms to forsake them.
The cheerful will
cherish them, place them
on windowsills, or on graves.
Kristen Henderson
#13. I knew Vincent Price from films - he was a big movie star - but the first time I met him was when we filmed 'The Oblong Box.'
Christopher Lee
#14. Be pompous, obese, and eat cactus
Be dull and boring and omnipresent
Criticize things you don't know about
Be oblong and have your knees removed
Steve Martin
#15. I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth.
Petrus Borel
#16. Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime.
Yiyun Li
#17. People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be ...
Robert Anton Wilson
#19. I'm like the most expensive, exotic item on a gourmet menu. People can wonder about the sensuous delights of the dish, but they can't afford such an expensive luxury
Anna Kournikova
#20. Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#21. People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#22. What you don't want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you can otherwise use to build a better overall team.
Tom Hicks
#23. One thing is certain: Nothing will set you apart from culture more than the exclusive claims of Christianity. And it is here that we must intentionally set ourselves apart-because if we do not, we will have no message for the world!
R. Kent Hughes
#24. I always go with the story and character and if those are good and if the setting is something that's scary (horror films seem to always take place at night and the weather's always bad) then I might be interested.
David Naughton
#25. The best part is if you dunk on someone at home and they show it on the replay!
Blake Griffin
