Quotes about Circling

Circling the earth in the orbital spaceship I marvelled at the beauty of our planet. People of the world!! Let us safeguard and enhance this beauty-not destroy it Votes: 3

They're like sharks. Circling. Cute, single guy, good job, nice car. It's all they know about me."His tone was light but his expression serious.Maybe that's because it's all you show them."Maybe it's all they want to see." Votes: 3

They're like sharks. Circling. Cute, single guy, good job, nice car. It's all they know about me." His tone was light but his expression serious. Maybe that's because it's all you show them." Maybe it's all they want to see. Votes: 3

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession." Votes: 1

Fate had a weird way of circling back over paths that were meant to cross." Votes: 1

The world of the quark has everything to do with a jaguar circling in the night." Votes: 1

Gazing from the moon, we see one earth, without borders, Mother Earth, her embrace encircling one people, humankind." Votes: 1

Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards." Votes: 1

I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years. Votes: 1

One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake. Votes: 1

One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake." Votes: 1

My joy as a writer is circling around and around and down and down to find out who the real person is. Votes: 1

My joy as a writer is circling around and around and down and down to find out who the real person is." Votes: 1

Uh-oh, big boy. Your blood is in the water and the sharks are circling. Must be feeding time."--Mea Brin, The Huntress" Votes: 1

Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm." Votes: 1

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water." Votes: 1

...bathed in the thick honey gold of the sun through encircling trees only just beginning to turn the muted metal colors of fall." Votes: 1

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water. Votes: 1

There is no illuminating light as powerful as that a person has got inside to guide him or her through the darkness encircling outside." Votes: 1

An immense body, encircling my delirium, a body made of wind and sunlight, crouching and stretching, encompassed the existence of the slightest human echo." Votes: 1

Vegans have a way of circling every conversation back to food, much like born-again Christians have a way of returning every conversation to the scripture." Votes: 1

I welcomed the circling sharks but they avoided me as if knowing I preferred their teeth to the chains around my neck my waist my ankles" Votes: 1

We were like two moths around a candle, I thought, circling closer and closer to the flame, waiting to see whose wings would catch fire first." Votes: 1

I used to flirt with girls just to get the guys circling around us. I'm getting out of it now. I have to look after my reputation. Votes: 1

Tralec inserted his thumb into her womanhood and began to massage her clit with his middle finger, encircling it slowly and gradually increasing the pressure and speed." Votes: 1

We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum star in the remotest corner of an obscure galaxy." Votes: 1

Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children." Votes: 1

Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.' Votes: 1

Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.'" Votes: 1

Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast." Votes: 1

But this is the kind of thing that fiction is: it's the unlivable life, the strange room tacked onto the house, the extra moon that is circling the earth unbeknownst to science." Votes: 1

Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, grease, and carbon on a pinpoint planet circling a star of no special consequence. Votes: 1

I don't like to sing things that just sound like they're going straight down the tubes, and they're circling the drain, and there's no hope. It doesn't feel good in any way to sing. Votes: 1

I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song." Votes: 1

In an unfathomable expanse of universe supporting galaxies of star systems with orbiting planets innumerable, I am nothing. And yet to the few bodies encircling my tiny little spot in the world, I am essential." Votes: 1

Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and always, and you're free." Votes: 1

In space there are countless constellations, suns and planets; we see only the suns because they give light; the planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark. There are also numberless earths circling around their suns..." Votes: 1

It was like resolution. The circling antagonisms collapsed inward like orbitals crashing and burning, surrendering to a mutual gravity that had dragged like chains while it endured but in release was a streak of fire through the nerves." Votes: 1

The equatorial monsoons which brought a rainy season to the coasts had small effect here in the highlands, from moon to moon, the rainfall varied little. Winter, summer, autumn, spring were involuted, turning in upon themselves, a slow circling of time." Votes: 1

No one we knew ever believed that there was anything between us but the sex and some virulent allure, my dirty dishwater circling the drain of you. Not a pretty comparison but maybe it's the best we'll ever deserve, either of us." Votes: 1

We could already try to lend a hand, to intervene if only by simply moving objects around. This would be better, on the whole, than waiting for the thick wall encircling life to brutally make the first move. (As happens during wartime.)" Votes: 1

Ours is a life of constant reruns. We're always circling back to where we'd we started, then starting all over again. Even if we don't run extra laps that day, we surely will come back for more of the same another day soon." Votes: 1

My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round. Votes: 1

Ours is a life of constant reruns. We're always circling back to where we'd we started, then starting all over again. Even if we don't run extra laps that day, we surely will come back for more of the same another day soon. Votes: 1

In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. And then by 20 they were circling out of punk rock back into Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, the stuff that I didn't get to when I was younger. Votes: 1

These artists pay little attention to an encircling present that bears no direct relation to the world of work in which they live, and they therefore see in it nothing more than an indifferent framework for life, either more or less favorable to production." Votes: 1

...and from then on whenever he smells lilacs he'll think about this moment. How the bees were circling above him, how purple the ink on the leaflets he's been distributing suddenly seemed, how he realized, all at once, just how beautiful a woman can be." Votes: 1

With no music to listen to, I just biked around in circles talking to myself like a kid on the cover of a Robert Cormier young adult novel, circling around puzzled Jewish families walking back to their cars. This is how I learned to ride a bike." Votes: 1

Dumbledore was on his feet again, pale as any of the surrounding Inferi, but taller than any too, the fire dancing in his eyes; his wand was raised like a torch and from its tip emanated the flames, like a vast lasso, encircling them all with warmth." Votes: 1

God, O God, where art thou? Thou art as distant to me as the lady combing rice in the Yunnan Province of China or a piece of floating space debris circling Pegasi. In this feeling-dead world of post traumatic stress, skepticism is king, queen, and court jester." Votes: 1

Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra." Votes: 1

I realize the blackness of sleep is circling my head. It's been there a while, biding its time and growing closer with each revolution. I give up on rage, which at this point has become a formality, and make a mental note to get angry in the morning." Votes: 1

These stories are important to me, not because they happen to be about South Asians, but because they're circling around a certain strain of loneliness that goes deeper than cultural dissonance, that has to do with the yearning to connect with someone else, or with some unreachable vision of home." Votes: 1

It was only when we were in that bed, high above the world - then I thought the birds could have been circling around our bodies circled around each other - that we made our world totally separated from everything else. It was the only way we could be together." Votes: 1

My heart can take on any form:A meadow for gazelles,A cloister for monks,For the idols, sacred ground,Ka'ba for the circling pilgrim,The tables of the Torah,The scrolls of the Quran.My creed is Love;Wherever its caravan turns along the way,That is my belief,My faith." Votes: 1

Thanks, Tink, for being a good brother to me," I say, misting up a bitShe's a fine girl, and I just know you'll be very happy together." I give him a kiss on the cheek."The Brotherhood forever, Jacky," is what he softly says in return, encircling me in his warm embraceForever." Votes: 1

And looking at one single label on a jar, he felt himself gone round the calendar to the private day this summer when he had looked at the circling world and found himself at its center.The word on the jar was RELISH.And he was glad that he had decided to live." Votes: 1

And all the sky was teeming and tearing along, a vast disorder of flying shapes and darkness and ragged fumes of light and a great brown circling halo, then the terror of a moon running liquid-brilliant into the open for a moment, hurting the eyes before she plunged under cover of cloud again." Votes: 1

Bella, I love you, kid," he said in case she could hear. Fear brushed the walls of his chest, circling inside him like a bat in a house. Then he got hold of it. He wanted to get something for her, anything, but he did not want her to feel him let go of her hand." Votes: 1

What can I do my friends, if I do not know?I am neither Christian nor Jew, nor Muslim nor Hindu. What can I do? What can I do?Not of the East, nor of the West, Nor of the land, nor of the sea,Not of nature's essence, nor of circling heavens. What could I be?" Votes: 1

Tomas turned the key and switched on the ceiling light. Teraza saw two beds pushed together, one of them flanked by a bedside table and a lamp. Up out of the lampshade, startled by the overhead light, flew a large nocturnal butterfly that began circling the room. The strains of the piano and violin rose up weakly from below." Votes: 1

The Castle. He'd seen this expression far too many times during their marriage. The Castle was Bryony drawing up the gates and retreating deep into the inner keep. And he'd always hated it. Marriage meant that you shared your goddamn castle. You didn't leave your poor knight of a husband circling the walls trying to find a way in." Votes: 1

I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily. Votes: 1

Sense the blessings of the earth in the perfect arc of a ripe tangerine, the taste of warm, fresh bread, the circling flight of birds, the lavender color of the sky shining in a late afternoon rain puddle, the million times we pass other beings in our cars and shops and out among the trees without crashing, conflict, or harm. Votes: 1

Strolling down a white-graveled walk to the cliff above the ocean, he let his eyes rove aimlessly over the expanse of sea and sand: The icy-looking whitecaps, the blinking, faraway sails of boats, the sweeping, constantly searching gulls. Desolation. Eternal, infinite. Like Dostoevski's conception of eternity, a fly circling about a privy, the few signs of life only emphasized the loneliness." Votes: 1

Do people in the twenty-first century still dance?"My heart beat thundered in my ears, far louder than the slow musicUm," I said, barely able to swallow, my throat had gone so drySometimes.""How about now?" he asked.And then his strong arms were encircling my waist, his breath soft against my cheek as he gently whispered my name: "Susannah. Susannah...." Votes: 1

The trees they passed repeated on and on into the woods. None was remarkable when compared to the next, but each was individual in some small regard: the number of limbs, the girth of trunk, the circumference of shed leaves encircling the base. No more than minor peculiarities, but minor particularities were what transformed two eyes, a nose, and a mouth into a face." Votes: 1

If you keep circling the promise, God will ultimately deliver on it. Votes: 0

Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling. Votes: 0

Some people in the utility industry have called it 'circling the drain' Votes: 0

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession. Votes: 0

Morn, Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand Unbarr'd the gates of light. Votes: 0

The world of the quark has everything to do with a jaguar circling in the night. Votes: 0

You might be a redneck if taking your wife on a cruise means circling the Dairy Queen. Votes: 0

This was what being cured was like: like being in a fishbowl, circling always inside the same glass. Votes: 0

There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme Votes: 0

I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge. Votes: 0

Only in america will you see people circling the parking lot looking for a close space at a gym. Votes: 0

A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far. Votes: 0

I sit where the leaves of the maple and the gnarled and knotted gum are circling and drifting around me. Votes: 0

A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled, down, down to the water Votes: 0

Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards. Votes: 0

With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails. Votes: 0

Nothing makes a pitcher feel more secure than the sight of his teammates circling the bases during a ball game. Votes: 0

Walk to the well. Turn as the earth and the moon turn, circling what they love. Whatever circles comes from the center. Votes: 0

I've been circling the wagons down at Times Square, trying to fill up this hole in my soul but nothing fits in there. Votes: 0

The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down. Votes: 0

Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm. Votes: 0

Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all. Votes: 0

He understands now why kisses in movies are filmed the way they are, with the camera endlessly circling, circling: the ground is unsteady under his. Votes: 0

Vegans have a way of circling every conversation back to food, much like born-again Christians have a way of returning every conversation to the scripture. Votes: 0

Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow. Votes: 0

I've got a lot of different religious ideas circling through my family, but the positive thing is that I was raised with a lot of openness and compassion. Votes: 0

The Russians will never be able to get their missiles thought the dense protective layer of delayed flights circling over the United States in complex, puke-inducing holding patterns. Votes: 0

Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children. Votes: 0

Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws. Votes: 0

We all know we're going to die. We're all circling the drain. Some of us are closer than others. I'm 90, I know I'm closer to the drain than most people. Votes: 0

At the end of the archana, prostrate, then get up and, remaining on the same spot, turn around clockwise 3 times just as if circling a temple, then bow to the Lord. Votes: 0

In the beginning, my mind and its strategies to avoid meditation were very strong. I spent a lot of time and energy circling around the periphery of the Commune, Osho, and myself. Votes: 0

A lot of times, you're circling around a lot of things, and then you find that one person, or that little piece of dialogue, and it doesn't always have to be in person. Votes: 0

Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born that drops into its place And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake. Votes: 0

Now the kids are portrayed as dirty when they talk to an agent, a shoe guy, some hanger-on. Well, it's only natural that people are circling them - there are millions of dollars involved. Votes: 0

I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song. Votes: 0

A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars,--as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars. Votes: 0

What happens when you put all your money into your home? Everybody's going to want to move in, whereas rich people set money off for their great-great grandkids. They got money that's circling for itself. Votes: 0