Quotes About Ovals

#1. You are awful people," she said loudly. The Blond Bobs looked up. Their eyes and mouths were little ovals of surprise. "You are awful, awful people.

Liane Moriarty

#2. The earth's round, like an orange, but this map is like its skin, cut off in ovals, north to south, laid flat and stretched a bit at the top and bottom. A Dutchman called Mercator invented the way to do this accurately twenty years ago. It's the first accurate world map.

James Clavell

#3. Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve.

Tom Wolfe

#4. You don't get a mix of ovals and road/street course racing with this level of competition and speed anywhere other than Indy Car, and I think that's why it has remained a popular choice for so many young drivers.

Charlie Kimball

#5. I mean, you've kind of got the track down, especially with ovals. The only thing that improves is that when race conditions come, you know what to expect slightly more from the track and from your car.

Danica Patrick

#6. At that instant the hag's noisy breathing stopped and with it all other sound. Her eyes opened, showing only whites - milky ovals infinitely eerie in the dark root-tangle of her sharp features and stringy hair. The gray tip of her tongue traveled like a large maggot around her lips.

Fritz Leiber

#7. Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed with the eye of a magnifying glass seem a Lilliputian frieze of psychedelic silhouettes.

Duane Michals

#8. Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou fly? Oh! rather, bird, with me Through this fair land rejoice!

Richard Henry Dana Jr.

#9. We are part of a system that includes trees. Without trees, we will eventually all

Ned Hayes

#10. Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.

William Penn

#11. But the bars that held you, the bars that kept you in were the luxury and soft living. It is hard to walk out on a thing like that

Clifford D. Simak

#12. You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job.

James Lovelock

#13. If revenge is a dish best served cold, then knowledge is a dish best left untouched.

Jill Archer

#14. Against classical philosophy: thinking about eternity or the immensity of the universe does not lessen my unhappiness.

Mason Cooley

#15. The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing.

Bob Mould

#16. Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Wendell Phillips

#17. Lying on a pile of pillows and smaller cushions, slurping her coffee and playing with her cigarette smoke, she felt briefly that her thoughts were growing more subtle and expansive.

Edward St. Aubyn

#18. Time is the most valuable asset you don't own. You may or may not realize it yet, but how you use or don't use your time is going to be the best indication of where your future is going to take you .

Mark Cuban

#19. Dorothea was not only his wife: she was a personification of that shallow world which surrounds the appreciated or desponding author.

George Eliot

#20. My heart swelled in my chest, like a froth of bubbles begging to be released.

Demelza Carlton