Oval quotes

  • Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.
    -- Georges Braque

    #Oval #Thanks

  • Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes circles in the intervals, makes the intervals active.
    -- Paul Klee

    #Circles #Light #Oval

  • Rugby is a game for the mentally deficient... That is why it was invented by the British. Who else but an Englishman could invent an oval ball?
    -- Peter Pook

    #Games #Balls #Oval

  • I felt I'd earned the Good Housekeeping Seal when I designed an oval-shaped spaghetti pot, because spaghetti is long.
    -- Rachael Ray

    #Long #Oval #Pot

  • Bush made a point of emphasizing to me that unlike his father's administration, his was one of significant "walk-in access" to the Oval Office.
    -- Robert Draper

    #Father #Office #Oval

  • Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office.
    -- David K. Shipler

    #Office #Oval #Fit

  • The walk-in privilege, to walk into the Oval Office and have a conversation with the president, is not something that everybody gets.
    -- Josh Earnest

    #Office #President #Oval

  • Rashida Jones is simply glorious. Andy Samberg shines in a grounded performance that digs deep, sharply funny and touching, a breath of fresh comic air!

  • India is definitely one of the markets where we can expect growth and a potential to do well.

  • ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him. In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission. Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil.

  • Although humans inherit a biological bias that permits them to feel anger, jealousy, selfishness and envy, and to be rude, aggressive or violent, they inherit an even stronger biological bias for kindness, compassion, cooperation, love and nurture - especially toward those in need. This inbuilt ethical sense is a biological feature of our species.

  • At any moment, we are either giving humanity the gift of our clarity or our confusion. And that clarity or confusion is affecting the humanity around us, the world around us. It is manifesting. It is taking form.

  • You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.

  • Knowledge born from actual experience is the answer to why one profits; lack of it is the reason one loses

  • Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.

  • The most precious thing in the world: me, because if there was no me, nothing could work out in this world

  • The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.