Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacques Derrida

The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.

Jacqueline Bisset

I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business, but who have become part of the circle for a short period of time. They can be truly devastated when the film wraps and people leave.

Christina Aguilera

I embrace my body, and I embrace everything about myself. Coming full circle is a celebration of freedom and happiness because that's what [my new album] 'Lotus' is representing. I'm embracing everything that I've grown to be and learned to be.

Frances Mayes

Poems give you the lives of others and then circle in on your own inner world.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.

Fran Lebowitz

When I fly, I'm never afraid the plane is going to crash. But there have often been times when I was afraid it wouldn't crash. I was just afraid it was going to circle O'Hare for the rest of my life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle

Jerry Springer

I'm in shape, but only if you consider a circle a shape.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

...time was not passing...it was turning in a circle...

Christopher Alexander

It is a common experience that attempts to solve just one piece of a problem first, then others, and so on, lead to endless involutions. You no sooner solve one aspect of a thing, than another point is out of point. And when you correct that one, something else goes wrong. You go round and round in circles, unable to produce a form that is thoroughly right.

George Strait

You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of 'em.

George Orwell

When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles, because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him, even when I feel I ought to - like the Labour M.P.s who get patted on the back by dukes and are lost forever more.

George Carlin

If people stand in a circle long enough, they'll eventually begin to dance

Fay Weldon

Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe for all eternity.

Fatos Nano

If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems.

Francis Bacon

Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much iteration, but small addition. It considereth causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions; the diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, with the preservation.

Jean Rostand

Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

Howie Mandel

We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.

Franz Kafka

My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.

Benicio Toro

Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes. The rumor was I was a junkie. I have dark circles under my eyes, deal with it.

Robert Frost

Style is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward

The money just goes around in circles anyway. We'd like to have it all untangled, particularly the retroactivity feature." ()

I usually go around the circle three times, but I was never as intense and pumped up as I was for this.

Tom Renney

It was time to circle the wagons and clearly explain to the guys that we need to be better and we've got to commit ourselves to what we have been about in the past if we want to do anything with the future. And I'm talking about (tomorrow). We want to make sure we win that game, and to do it, we have to be a much better hockey club than we were tonight.

As on this whirligig of Time/ We circle with the seasons.

That was a 16-round heavyweight fight. I'm going to remember this until we play again. I'm going to find it on the schedule and circle it, put a star by it.

Joanne Harris

The interesting thing about the Internet is that it has created a kind of alternative circle of friends for people.

George Moore

The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be that dogma draws a circle round the mind.

The Family Circle Cup has always been known as the tournament where stars emerge. Nicole?s performance last year is a true testament to that. She is one of the most exciting and talented players on the women?s tour, and we are pleased to have her back.

Rusty Wallace

Then I got to thinking, 'Hey, I could just take those two weeks off and get ready to go!' But I think when you sign up to run all those races, if you take a couple off I think it would void your Winner's Circle program. So if you skip one it just wouldn't work.

The newspaper industry is already dominated by a small circle of ownership groups. Yesterday's news drew that circle even smaller.

Take it double time. Four circles left, four circles right.

It's incredibly restorative. A lot of people find great solace in gardening. It teaches self-worth, patience, reliance, persistence. It teaches us the circle of life. It teaches us that things die, and from that new things come.