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  • The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the wraith of his imagination, revealed his discovery to them: 'The world is round, like an orange.

  • The world is now multicultural the same way the world is round. It's not a selling point, it's not a 'quirky' feature, it's not a cynical marketing ploy, it's not an artistic statement, it's not even a plot device. It's a fact, like seedless grapes.

  • Christopher Columbus, who said to Queen Isabella, No, you got it wrong! The world is round. You're flat! Never got a dinner!

    Queens   World   Dinner  
  • When a new idea assaults the power of established authority, authority always screams out that morality has been affronted. It makes no difference if this idea is that the world is round or that women should vote or that the workers should control industry.

  • Just knowing that the world is round Here I'm dancing on the ground Am I right side up or upside down? Is this real or am I dreaming?

    Dream   Real   Knowing  
  • The world of maps is nice and flat and simple. It has areas for people and areas for monsters. What a shock it is to discover the world is round and the areas merge and nothing separates the monsters and ourselves; that we are all whirling around in space together and there isn't even a graceful way of falling off.

    Nice   Fall   Simple  
    Margaret Millar (2016). “Beyond This Point Are Monsters”, p.111, Soho Press
  • Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.

  • Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the world is round.

  • The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

  • 'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

    Baby   Literature   World  
    Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.429
  • Audiences want to see them, and in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.

    People   World   Want  
    "Awards Season’s Female Troubles" by Justin Chang, variety.com. January 2, 2015.
  • Here we find further argument for Gotagga’s supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?

    Brother   Men   World  
    R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Thousandfold Thought: The Prince of Nothing, Book Three (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.60, The Overlook Press
  • And perhaps, those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films, with women at the center are niche experience, they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.

    Ideas   People   Female  
    "Oscars Transcripts from All the Acceptance Speeches!". Article by Sam Coffey, www.awardscircuit.com. March 3, 2014.
  • The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

  • The problem with any philosophical consideration is that once you open a door in your mind, you can never close it. Once you learn something, you can never convince your mind that you didn't learn it. If you learn the world is round, you can never fit in with a world that thinks it's flat.

  • White in the moon the long road lies, The moon stands blank above; White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love. Still hangs the hedge without a gust, Still, still the shadows stay: My feet upon the moonlit dust Pursue the ceaseless way. The world is round, so travellers tell, And straight through reach the track, Trudge on, trudge on, 'twill all be well, The way will guide one back. But ere the circle homeward hies Far, far must it remove: White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love.

    Lying   Moon   Feet  
    A. E. Housman (2017). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.36, Pan Macmillan
  • It's love that makes the world go round.

    W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.504, Oxford University Press
  • Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is round us, for it is everywhere.

    Men   Race   Earth  
    Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.61, Penguin
  • I love the round, the curves, the undulation, the world is round, the world is a breast

    Curves   World   Breasts  
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