Top 55 Round Square Quotes
#1. 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
#2. This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it.
Paul Giamatti
#3. A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Mark Twain
#4. Payment processing: As seen, you now can fit a Square peg through a round hole and be a merchant. Education
Scott Stratten
#5. You think you're in control, and you're trying to get that square peg in that round hole. You're frustrated, and you realize that you're not in control of everything. You need to just step back and let God.
Cheryl Ladd
#6. About half of all design patterns out there [ ... ] appear to be ways take perfectly natural design ideas and twist them to fit into someones static type system: recipes for pounding square pegs into round holes
Steve Yegge
#7. A square object was visible at a greater distance than a round object of the same area.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#8. You want a round table meeting, we can have a round table meeting."
"I love round tables," said Magnus brightly. "They suit me so much better than square.
Cassandra Clare
#9. Each life is a kind of assignment, I believe," Eliza told her. "You're given this one assigned slot each time you come to earth, this little square of experience to work through. So even if your life has been troubled, I believe, it's what you're meant to deal with on this particular go-round.
Anne Tyler
#10. When Jed comes in and gives you that look where his forehead wrinkles up and his chin drops so low that his baggy eyes can't even look you square in your eyes, well, I guess you realize that it must be your turn to get out into the winter snow and round up the midgets.
Jarod Kintz
#11. Coins from half a hundred distant cities, silver and gold, copper and bronze, square coins and round coins, triangles and rings and bits of bone
George R R Martin
#12. People going in the wrong direction will get like that. Round pegs just don't fit in square holes.
J.R. Ward
#13. For every round peg society forces into a square hole, another brick is laid, building the walls that will eventually close us off from the possibility of living with purpose and passion.
Kathryn Perez
#14. Brackets come in various shapes, types and names:
1 round brackets (which we call brackets, and the Americans call parentheses)
2 square brackets [which we call square brackets, and the Americans call brackets]
Lynne Truss
#15. The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.
George Berkeley
#16. I once stood in the middle of New York city watching my name go round the electronic zipper sign in Times Square and I felt pretty thrilled, but not quite as thrilled as I felt when I saw my name in the 'Examiner' for the first time.
Simon Armitage
#17. That's me. I can be me a bit at home, but I'm kind of like a square peg in a round hole.
Mick Ralphs
#19. They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball and they tell you to hit it square.
Willie Stargell
#20. EATABLE MARSHMALLOW PILLOWS
LICKABLE WALLPAPER FOR NURSERIES
HOT ICE CREAMS FOR COLD DAYS
COWS THAT GIVE CHOCOLATE MILK
FIZZY LIFTING DRINKS
SQUARE SWEETS THAT LOOK ROUND
Roald Dahl
#21. Sometimes something becomes a lot better. It's like a puzzle . You can't force a round brick into a square. It's a delicate thing. You need to let the song decide.
Oh Land
#22. Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
Aldous Huxley
#23. But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?
William Wordsworth
#24. Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square.
Joe Schultz
#25. Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes ... the ones who see things differently ... Rock on!
Steve Jobs
#26. Why is ground round sold in a square package?
Neil Leckman
#27. I love round tables. They suit me so much better than a square.
Magnus, pg. 137
Cassandra Clare
#28. A misfit is like the round peg that cannot fit into the square hole or the running river that just can't stay still.
Pearl Zhu
#29. Your bread assumes the shape of the pan you use to bake your flour. Therefore stand still and know that you can't use a rounded pan and ever get squared bread. Change the pan and change the shape of the bread!
Israelmore Ayivor
#30. Going to a dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the Brightdayler.
James Joyce
#31. In Naples, Fla., I met a self-made man, a multimillionaire, whose round penthouse apartment is home to Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Henry Moore, and Mickey Mantle. He had purchased the most coveted items auctioned by the Mantle family at Madison Square Garden in December 2003.
Jane Leavy
#32. It's a funny thing about life, I think we're born square and we die round
Daniel Gottlieb
#33. I had a confident expectation that things would come round and be all square.
Charles Dickens
#34. But then I have always been somewhat of a square peg in a round hole.
Cressida Cowell
#35. And there in the snow lay the pictures, like jewels bedded in white silk. They were paper-thin sheets of colored transparent isin glass of every size and shape, some round, some square, some damaged, some intact, some as large as church windows, others as small as snuffbox miniatures.
Michael Ende
#36. It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
Pete Rose
#37. I was always an odd girl; I managed to alienate a lot of people. I felt like a square peg in a round hole in the music industry and created a lot of neurosis for myself.
Alison Moyet
#39. Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg.
Paul Collins
#40. We are supposed to be different. Do not try to put round pegs in square holes. When people look at us, believe in yourself.
Manoj Arora
#41. Hitting. That's what I enjoy most. Realistically, it's probably the hardest thing to do in all of sport. Think about it. You've got a round ball, a round bat, and the object is to hit it square.
Pete Rose
#42. People who are born round don't die square.
Cus D'Amato
#43. You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.
Elbert Hubbard
#44. He's not your typical prince, more like a square peg in a round hole, kind of like me. He's the sort of guy who wouldn't mind reading side by side on a date.
Jodi Picoult
#45. I can change, whittle my square edges to fit in a round hole. God, I hope I'm never going to massacre myself that way.
Sylvia Plath
#46. You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a good thing, but you can't put a round peg in a square hole.
Ray Liotta
#47. It is easier to square a circle than to get round a mathematician.
Augustus De Morgan
#48. You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are.
Benjamin Hoff
#49. If you're born round, you don't come out square
Polow Don
#50. Certain social situations make me feel like a square peg in a round hole. Realising you can connect to the human race through song makes me feel less alien.
Lindi Ortega
#51. Never go for a drink in London's square mile, nobody ever gets a round in.
Benny Bellamacina
#52. Corporations no longer try to fit square pegs into round holes; they just fit them into square cubicles.
Robert Breault
#53. Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask - half our great theological and metaphysical problems - are like that.
C.S. Lewis
#55. Over the years most of my peers had come to hate me - I never understood why. I guess I was just different and, like dogs, they could smell it. So I never had many friends.
Sol Luckman
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