Top 100 Quotes About Round
#1. Tony flung himself into his brother's arms and felt them close round him tight. "Hold me so I can't get away!" he said, and found himself queerly rejoicing in the steely strength of those scarred wrists.
Constance Savery
#2. As a 20th round pick nothing was handed to me in the minor leagues.
Mike Lowell
#3. I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
Victoria Abril
#4. Everybody round you pretendin that they your partner, let you have a problem they won't even help you out
Kevin Gates
#5. If! If! You can get 'round anything with 'if'.
Herge
#6. I don't want to just go to the playoffs, I don't want to go to the playoffs and win the first round, second round, and not win the whole thing because it's bittersweet.
Allen Iverson
#7. For-profit weather forecasters rarely predict exactly a 50 percent chance of rain, which might seem wishy-washy and indecisive to consumers.41 Instead, they'll flip a coin and round up to 60, or down to 40, even though this makes the forecasts both less accurate and
Nate Silver
#8. Being in love is the best feeling on the planet. I really believe that love makes the world go round.
Sonam Kapoor
#9. What sort of world is it at all? Men on the moon and men spinning round the earth like it might be midges round a lamp, and there's not no attention paid to earthly law nor order no more.
Anthony Burgess
#10. Then my friend's wiry arms were round me, and he was leading me to a chair.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#11. Right. So you haven't been spending every spare hour round at geeky and slaphead's, then?"
"Don't call them that. They have names." Although privately I had my own names for them: octopus and trouser python.
Josephine Myles
#12. I did not, however, as yet see him as one of those symbolic figures, of whom most people possess at least one example, if not more, round whom the past and the future have a way of assembling.
Anthony Powell
#13. It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
Pliny The Elder
#15. I educate myself on the polar ice caps, vaporized long ago by warfare, and an explorer named Christopher Columbus who proved the earth was round.
Lauren DeStefano
#16. The man was remarkably . . . well, homely. Ugly, not to put too fine a point on it. His face was deeply pitted with scars, obviously the victim of a terrible case of adolescent acne. He wore horn-rimmed glasses and had thinning brown hair, round shoulders, a pigeon chest.
Joseph Finder
#17. I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes ... have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I've never tasted it.
Alfred Hitchcock
#18. Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
James Thurber
#19. Going round and around inside a dryer can be fatal, whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it.
Cassandra Clare
#20. Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.
Quincy Jones
#21. And the too much of my speaking:
heaped up round the little
crystal dressed in the style of your silence.
Paul Celan
#22. Thought is a dead end; language is a merry-go-round.
Marty Rubin
#23. The pomps and glories which he despised were all his; what to most men is an ambition or a dream, to him was a round of weary tasks which nothing but the stern sense of duty could carry him through. And he did his work well.
Marcus Aurelius
#24. The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
Wendell Berry
#25. In my experience, the human mind, when under the influence of fear, rushes round in frantic circles.
Georgette Heyer
#26. I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people round for dinner. When you travel a lot, you feel rootless and adrift - this is my sanctuary, where I can breathe out.
Bat For Lashes
#27. The notion that Playboy turns women into sex objects is ridiculous. Women are sex objects. If women weren't sex objects, there wouldn't be another generation. It's the attraction between the sexes that makes the world go 'round. That's why women wear lipstick and short skirts.
Hugh Hefner
#28. Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears.
Joanna Southcott
#29. I know that I'm going to have to work hard, keep working hard, and not because of this victory think, 'I'm back.' I don't think like that. I'll definitely work hard. Things are not going to be easy. I might lose first round next week. You never know.
Kim Clijsters
#30. MIND TELLING US WHAT THE REALITY IS LIKE ROUND HERE?" The pen wrote: +++ On A Scale Of One To Ten - Query +++ "FINE," Ridcully shouted. +++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++
Terry Pratchett
#31. Communism requires of its adherents that they arise early and participate in a strenuous round of calisthenics. To someone who wishes that cigarettes came already lit the thought of such exertion at an hour when decent people are just nodding off is thoroughly abhorrent.
Fran Lebowitz
#32. How can I have hung round you for five years and not think girls are clever?
J.K. Rowling
#33. I was working in, being a single parent with a grieving child of five years old. It was horrendous. I couldn't go out much, because I had my daughter to look after. So people used to come round, and Tony Harrington from The Wire came round.
David Toop
#34. Tuppy wiped a fair portion of Hampshire out of his eye, and peered round him in a dazed kind of way ...
P.G. Wodehouse
#35. And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.
Oscar Wilde
#36. You can't build a wall round a village.
The sun and the wind
will always find their way in.
Igor Goldkind
#37. I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.
Vera Brittain
#38. How're we gonna bring the big hag round?" said Big Yan.
"I heard where ye has to put someone's heid between their legs," said Rob doubtfully.
Daft Wullie sighed and drew his sword. "Sounds a wee bit drastic tae me," he said, "but if someone will help me hold her steady-
Terry Pratchett
#39. 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.
Tom Hardy
#40. So, I soberly laid my last plan
To extinguish the man.
Round his creep-hole, with never a break
Ran my fires for his sake;
Over-head, did my thunder combine
With my under-ground mine:
Till I looked from my labour content
To enjoy the event.
Robert Browning
#41. The Earth spins once a day. It goes around the sun once a year. The moon goes round the earth every 28 days. Your heart beats in a rhythm particular only to you. Everything has its drumbeat and everything contributes to the dance. You've just got to know when to lead and when to follow.
William Meikle
#42. Come see the cherry trees of a water constellation
and the round key of the rapid universe,
come touch the fire of instantaneous blue,
come before its petals are consumed.
Pablo Neruda
#43. Ain't gonna let nobody turn me round, Turn me round, turn me round. Ain't gonna let nobody turn me round. Gonna keep on walkin', keep on talkin' Marching up to freedom land.
Sharon M. Draper
#44. But my mother's life was a never-ending round of maintenance. Not one single thing did she ever achieve but that it had to be done all over again, one day or one week or one season later. Oh, the monotony.
Jacqueline Kelly
#45. remember how they tracked down that green-eyed Afghan girl? And she's now a leather-faced crone? Because her life went from misery and shit to more monotonous and meaningless misery and shit, while her famous photo went 'round and 'round the world making that McCurry guy famous? I say we do it.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#46. It makes me feel like a woman. It makes me feel that all the things about my body are suddenly there for a reason. It makes you feel round and supple, and to have a little life inside you is amazing.
Angelina Jolie
#47. I went to Cork, Ireland, and stood on the dock some of my ancestors had left from. I felt their ghosts gather round me, and I cried to imagine what it must have felt like - leaving that beautiful land and those beloved people, knowing it was forever.
Luanne Rice
#48. 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.
James Meade
#49. I'm so tired ... I was up all night trying to round off infinity.
Steven Wright
#50. The earth continues to go round, whether it's the man who kills the tiger or the tiger who eats the man. The stronger asserts his will, it's the law of nature. The world doesn't change; its laws are eternal.
Adolf Hitler
#51. I could have knocked him out in the 3rd round but I wanted to do it slowly, So he would remember this night for a long time.
Mike Tyson
#52. 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.
Bryan Adams
#53. No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go.
John Lennon
#54. Now the Great Fear's rolled round the world and washes over Newspaper Grey air
Allen Ginsberg
#55. There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.
George McGovern
#56. Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it ... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
Marcus Aurelius
#57. I am among those who firmly believe that a round of golf should not take more than three and a half hours, four at most. Anything longer than that is not a round of golf, it's life in Albania.
Dan Jenkins
#58. The beams and bridges cut the light on the ground into little triangles and the rails run round
Suzanne Vega
#59. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched behind one now stretches before him.
Steven Erikson
#60. The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.
Confucius
#62. My face is round, and my cheeks are pinchable, and my ears stick out farther than I'd like.
Stephanie Perkins
#63. Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#64. This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.
Tom Jenkinson
#66. The implication was reasonably clear; I condemned him, and his minions would be round promptly to cut off my nipples and burn Jared's warehouse. I licked dry lips, cursing Louis. Why couldn't he just have wanted my body?
Diana Gabaldon
#67. It is good to get an all round experience especially when you have never been on a movie set.
Justin Bartha
#68. In heaven I will find you.
Among the pigeons and scraped bodies. The sky's spinning round and
round. Vultured color. Darkness throbbing. Like a child spun round
and round. It does not stop.
Rauan Klassnik
#70. A magic lamp now seemed to be suspended in Maria's prison, and fairy landscapes flitted round the gloomy walls, late so blank. Rushing from the depth of despair, on the seraph wing of hope, she found herself happy. - She was beloved, and every emotion was rapturous.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#71. Some questions cannot be answered. They become familiar weights in the hand, round stones pulled from the pocket, unyielding and cool.
Jane Hirshfield
#72. I looked past him, to the sea framed in the arched opening of the wall, to the line formed where the water met the sky. The world was not round, I realized. The world was a plate.
'Please,' he whispered. 'Don't.'
Unlike Rurick, Plesec did not die confused.
Rick Yancey
#73. You've got to gamble every once in a while in a round of golf. I'm not afraid to screw up.
Fuzzy Zoeller
#75. Aunt Ruth looked at the unlucky pair.
"What are you doing here?" she asked Perry.
Stovepipe Town made a mistake.
"Oh, looking for a round square," said Perry off-handedly, his eyes suddenly becoming limpid with mischief and lawless roguery.
L.M. Montgomery
#77. After a few days of rain, the seedlings will push through the soil and unfold their tiny leaves. Two weeks later, if the rain is still good, we then carefully apply the first round of fertilizer, because each seedling requires love and attention like any living thing if it's going to grow up strong.
William Kamkwamba
#78. No player should have to go through what I have been dealing with, and I am exhausting all options to ensure not only that I get justice, but that players' contracts and rights are protected through the next round of bargaining.
Alex Rodriguez
#79. You're telling me that if i keep dropping bombs into a junkyard, someday all the pieces will blast together into a perfect Mercedes. that's what the big bang proposes. that's what evolution teaches. That chaos gave rise to perfection. But we know it works the other way round don't we?
Laurence B. Brown
#80. The big oxygen thing is out for Benni McCarthy ... he's got a lot of medical round him
Paul Merson
#81. There lies the image of our past and of our future," cried Alleyne, as they rode on upon their way. "Now, which is better, to till God's earth, to have happy faces round one's knee, and to love and be loved, or to sit forever moaning over one's own soul, like a mother over a sick babe?" "I
Arthur Conan Doyle
#82. After twenty centuries of stony sleep, what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?
W.B. Yeats - from 'The Second Coming
W.B.Yeats
#83. Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform their great deeds. That is, there must be an atmosphere of greatness round about them. A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#84. An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.
Vijender Singh
#85. I looked silently at her lips. All women are lips, all lips. Some are pink and firmly round: a ring, a tender guardrail from the whole world. And then there are these ones: a second ago they weren't here, and just now - like a knife-slit - they are here, still dripping sweet blood.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#86. Round and round they went with their snakes, snakily ...
Aldous Huxley
#87. When you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round and borderless ...
Ani DiFranco
#88. We know better than to compare ourselves with others online. We know a Facebook feed, for most, is a glorified highlights reel, a round-up of our best moments, our funniest selves, our greatest champions. We know not to compare our worst with someone else's best. But
Erin Loechner
#89. I love to go and mingle with the young
In the gay festal room
when every heart
Is beating faster than the merry tune,
And their blue eyes are restless, and their lips
Parted with eager joy, and their round cheeks
Flush'd with the beautiful motion of the dance.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
#90. Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from the fiery noon and eve's one star, Sat gray-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair.
John Keats
#91. Go forward until the last round is fired and the last drop of gas is expended ... then go forward on foot!
George S. Patton
#92. He actually knows what has to be done and how to do it, and he's going right ahead and doing it, without holding a dozen conferences and round-table discussions and giving everybody a fair and equal chance to foul things up for him. You know as well as I do that that's undemocratic.
H. Beam Piper
#93. ...."we saw this big dark red leech hanging off his back.
We were dancing round yelling: 'We'll burn it off! Get the petrol! Stay
still Mr Kassar, you can trust us!'
He wimped out though, and made us use salt. Very boring.
John Marsden
#94. Agent Reed returned this morning, ready for another round of what he calls an interview and what I refer to as an interrogation.
C.J. Roberts
#95. As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. When I'm not working, you'd better spend that time with someone important.
Benjamin Bratt
#96. He knew now the one thing of importance; and that one thing was at first there, in the drawing room, and then began moving across and came to a standstill at the door. Without turning round he felt the eyes fixed on him, and the smile, and he could not help turning round.
Leo Tolstoy
#97. When I felt a sudden sharp poke in my rear, and turning round, was horrified at the apparition of Captain Peleg in the act of withdrawing his leg from my immediate vicinity. That was my first kick.
Herman Melville
#98. Nasty Ass got his street name because he always smells like he has a round in the chamber. If
Don Winslow
#99. I simply don't understand the refugee crisis. The history of humanity can be told through a story of migration and settlement. If I can't protect my family, I'm coming to where you are; I'm just coming. It's a round world, and we've all got to get on with it and move on.
Paul Bettany
#100. The knight knew he was of good breeding and noble blood, that his reputation was sterling. He had no dalliances. He was a highly decorated Knight of the Round Table.
Julia Mills
