“In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.” WayWarHistoryPowerSocietyObjectsBalanceApproachDirectStrategyRoundsResistanceUpsetDefendersIndirectCompressionDirect Approach Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“His examiner said severely: "Baskerville, you blank round, discursiveness is not literature." "The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart."” HeartSaidLiteratureBreakCreationObjectsStrangeAimRoundsCoveredBlankFurBreak Your Heart Author:Donald Barthelme
“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.” ThinkingSportsEnjoyObjectsBallsRoundsHardestThings To DoSquaresHittingBatsHardest ThingHardest Thing To Do Author:Pete Rose
“In the early days the Cubism' method of grasping an object was to go round and round it. The Futurists declared that one had to get inside it. In my opinion the two views can be reconciled in a poetic cognition of the world. But to the very fact that they appealed to the creative depths in the painter by awakening in him hidden forces which were intuitive and vitalizing, the Futurist theories did more than the Cubist principles to open up unexplored and boundless horizons.” WorldTwoFactsForceViewsOpinionPrinciplesCreativeObjectsTheoryMethodDepthRoundsAwakeningPainterPoeticHorizonIntuitiveBoundlessCognitionGraspingUnexploredFuturist Author:Gino Severini
“The awful consciousness that one is the sole object of attention to that immense space, lined as it were with human intellect from top to bottom, and on all side round, may be perhaps be imagined but can not be described.” HumansMaySidesSpaceAttentionConsciousnessObjectsTheaterBottomRoundsIntellectAwfulSoleImmenseCan Not Author:Sarah Siddons
“I do not mean to impugn the social justice and social expediency of the redistribution of incomes aimed at by N.I.R.A. and by the various schemes for agricultural restriction. The latter, in particular, I should strongly support in principle. But too much emphasis on the remedial value of a higher price-level as an object in itself may lead to serious misapprehension as to the part which prices can play in the technique of recovery. The stimulation of output by increasing aggregate purchasing power is the right way to get prices up; and not the other way round.” WayShouldMayMeanPlayValuesSocialJusticeLevelsPrinciplesSupportToo MuchObjectsParticularSeriousHigherSocial JusticeRoundsInvestingVariousTechniqueIncomeRecoveryLatterSchemesRight WayEmphasisRestrictionOutputStimulationPurchasingExpediencyPurchasing Power Author:John Maynard Keynes
“Travelers are fantasists, conjurers, seers - and what they finally discover is that every round object everywhere is a crystal ball: stone, teapot, the marvelous globe of the human eye.” HumansEyeObjectsStonesBallsRoundsGlobesMarvelousTravelerCrystalsSeersHuman EyesTeapotsCrystal Ball Book:The Messiah of Stockholm: a novel Source: The Messiah of Stockholm: a novel
“You can't just look at the side of something that you want to see. You have to look at the whole round object and understand that there are parts of it that you don't like.” WantLooksWholeSidesObjectsRoundsWant To See You Author:Dan Mangan