Revolved Quotes

#1. I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates ... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.

Clive James

#2. I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

Anson Mount

#3. She had found the Tears of Idihet.
As she stared, they began to blur. Distantly she marveled at this: the wisdom of her body, which already understood the consequences of this discovery - the conclusions which her mind revolved and revolved around, but refused to grasp.

Meredith Duran

#4. P44- in tarzans clever little mind many thoughts revolved and back of these was his divine power of reason.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#5. I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.

Al Yankovic

#6. The idea of the Solar System dates back to 250 BC when Aristarchus of Samos suggested that the planets revolved around the Sun. This is called the heliocentric model, and was largely ignored until astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus confirmed it during the sixteenth century. The

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#7. Apes. The moon woke them
round the world's navel revolved
prayer wheels of steps.

Dag Hammarskjold

#8. Ma was legally blind due to a degenerative eye disease she'd had since birth. This meant she was entitled to welfare, and our lives revolved around the first day of every month when her payment was due.

Liz Murray

#9. How silently the world revolved, when one was brooding, and alone.

Eleanor Catton

#10. My life, since I was 12-years-old, has revolved around some sort of sport, mainly cycling, so when I'm unable to ride my bike I just don't know what to do with myself.

Magnus Backstedt

#11. Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#12. [Patty's] Copernican wish to the be sun around which all things revolved

Jonathan Franzen

#13. Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.

Jane Smiley

#14. I felt the same way the world felt about Kurtis; It revolved around him.

Dee Remy

#15. He looked up at her. Age and worry had taken their toll on her frail body, but she was kind and beautiful. And for a moment, memories and thoughts swam to the surface, the world coming into utter clarity. And all of them revolved around Amanda, his wife of fifty years.

Crissy Moss

#16. I would love to act for the rest of my life, but I also know that it could be taken away in a day. It's something I've always loved, but it's nothing I've ever revolved my entire life around. I have many other passions as well.

Shailene Woodley

#17. She waited uneasily and shyly. From afar he saw that her eyes
clearly her father's
were filled with desperate innocence. He pictured, in her, his own redemption. Violins and lit candles revolved in the sky. Leo ran forward with flowers out-thrust.

Bernard Malamud

#18. Work used to be the No. 1 important thing to me. Everything revolved around it, and to have a new perspective and have something else, my family, not just being a mom but being a part of an incredible family of my own, it makes me have a different perspective on life that I think is richer.

Lindsay Price

#19. It was strange how the future seemed tied inseparably to the past, so that both revolved through the present, like a great wheel ...

Tad Williams

#20. It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Todd Rundgren

#21. Life and work revolved around duty, self-respect, and the ultimate value of one's word.

Dan Simmons

#22. But that's exactly the problem, retorted Isabel. We're all stuck with the same tired and trusted ideas. If we refused to entertain the possibility of something radically different, then we'd never make any progress - ever. We'd still be thinking that the sun revolved round the earth.

Alexander McCall Smith

#23. We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is from without, when we are least expecting it, that it gives us its cruel stab and wounds us forever.

Marcel Proust

#24. Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed.

Hedi Slimane

#25. Women never thought beyond the happy ending. We'd been taught to believe that our world revolved around securing a commitment from a man.

Beth Pattillo

#26. Training has always been a hobby, and my whole life has revolved around training. It's something I truly love doing. I wanna do what I wanna do and this is something I wrestled with, because I have to make many sacrifices to do what I wanna do.

Ronnie Coleman

#27. It sounds like a cliche, but it ... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.

Kenny Chesney

#28. The taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind.

William Francis Henry King

#29. A few years ago a friend said that I use to hunt and fish and build houses and things but now my whole life revolved around my computer I replied But my computer revolves around the world

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#30. Lately, my sexual fantasies revolved around once again having a landlord. Looks, age, and hygiene didn't matter, as long as he had a tool belt and said, Don't worry, I'll fix it.

J.A. Konrath

#31. I read the script for 'Guncrazy' in 1985 and loved it because it was one of the few scripts I'd come across that revolved around a strong female character.

Tamra Davis

#32. Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.

Haruki Murakami

#33. Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

#34. It seemed to Caleb, the nature of human being revolved around one empirical truth: we want what we cannot have. For Eve, it was the fruit of the forbidden tree. For Caleb, it was Livvie.

C.J. Roberts

#35. From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.

Philip Baker Hall

#36. Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.

Willie Stargell

#37. My will and my desire were both revolved, as is a wheel in even motion driven, by Love, which moves the sun and other stars.

Dante Alighieri

#38. Everything used to revolve around the sun; now I knew it all revolved around me-slowly, blissfully, squinting its eyes.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#39. He smiled, she smiled, they knew right away, this was the day they'd waited for their whole lives, for a moment the whole world revolved around one boy & one girl.

Collin Raye

#40. It appeared the more religious and older men got, the more insatiable their appetite grew for teenage hymens; a short sighted, selfish, entitled and wicked appetite at that by the kind of men who were disillusioned enough to believe that the world revolved around their poles.

Dauglas Dauglas

#41. Grandma, he had often wanted to say, Is this where the world began? For surely it had begun in no other than a place like this. The kitchen, without doubt, was the center of creation, all things revolved about it; it was the pediment that sustained the temple.

Ray Bradbury

#42. We normally think that theist religions sanctified the great gods. We tend to forget that they sanctified humans, too. Hitherto Homo sapiens had been just one actor in a cast of thousands. In the new theist drama, Sapiens became the central hero around whom the entire universe revolved.

Yuval Noah Harari

#43. On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger.

Eddie Van Halen

#44. Wayne didn't even know the Earth revolved around the Sun. He thought the Sun revolved around the Earth, because it certainly looked that way. A truck sizzled

Kurt Vonnegut

#45. This woman's size protected her
from the hurts of the world
but it also imprisoned her soul.
As the merry-go-round revolved, she ate another French fry,as a silent scream frozen on her face.

David W. Earle

#46. My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.

Elliott Carter

#47. I hated school ... I freaking hated it. The fact is that it revolved around something you didn't have access to. If you weren't on the football team, if you were in the band, you were a leper. When people say those were the best years of our lives, I want to scream.

Trent Reznor

#48. Library? That sounded reasonable. As my thoughts revolved around my days surrounded by books, something miraculous happened. My anger subsided. It ebbed away as the thoughts of books, pages, and comfort entered my head.

Rebecca Maizel

#49. Since I quit banking, all my major life decisions, when they could, have revolved around writing.

Philipp Meyer

#50. Once upon a time, my world revolved around you.

Katie McGarry

#51. Ellington Feint was a line in my mind running right down the middle of my life, separating the formal training of my childhood and the territory of the rest of my days. She was an axis, and at that moment and for many moments afterward, my entire world revolved around her.

Lemony Snicket

#52. There were too many of my happiest days and they all revolved around him. But I could only think of the moment Xander's tears were his heaviest and his words incredibly pained.

Ashlan Thomas

#53. The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked out now in lights, revolved leisurely through the dusk; a few empty cars of the roller coaster rattled overhead.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#54. My career has always revolved around what I do and don't want my sisters and brothers seeing me doing.

Melissa Joan Hart

#55. He was silent for thirty seconds, maybe a minute. I uncrossed my legs under the table and wondered if this was the right moment to leave. It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the right point in a conversation to say goodbye.

Haruki Murakami

#56. By happy contrast, Hobie's whole day revolved around dinner.

Donna Tartt

#57. Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.

Mary Ellen Mark

#58. My childhood definitely revolved around my relationship with my brother. I wanted to be different. I wanted to find my way of being as intriguing and interesting as he was.

Martha Wainwright