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A circle is the longest distance to same point.
I am like a child who blows up a bubble of soap. At first the bubble is very small, but it is already spherical. Then the child blows the bubble up very softly, until he is afraid that it will burst.
The Port Elizabeth ground is more of a circle than an oval. It's long and square.
Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches.
I have only one question, my sister and my friend," she said, so earnestly that Kethry came out of her own fear and looked deeply into the shadowed eyes that met hers. "And that is this; which way do you want them sliced - lengthwise, or widthwise?
Our little infinity.-- John Green
A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.
Life is short, but wide.
Give me an inch and I'll give you a mile.
I sense a very large but."
"Funny, because right in front of me, I see a - "
"Watch it.
We may divide characters into flat and round.
Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand.
The nine inches right here; set it straight and you can beat anybody in the world.
If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it.
My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.
I felt I'd earned the Good Housekeeping Seal when I designed an oval-shaped spaghetti pot, because spaghetti is long.
The word abbreviation sure is long for what it means.
Down with hell and heaven and all the religious fuss
infinity pleased our parents
one inch looks good to us
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
with an unexpected wave in the middle and a mild curl at the ends. A hat maker would have deemed it a wide head while a modeling agency would regard it as round,
The world beyond is vast, but so small. Men putting themselves in boxes. Sitting at desks. Riding in cars. Ships. Here, the world is small, but without end.
If its length be not considered a merit, it hath no other.
anglepoise lamp.
Beyond the edge of the world there's a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.
An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.
The pits and tangles are more than blemishes distorting the classic shapes of Euclidian geometry. They are often the keys to the essence of a thing
Olympism ... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.
The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric.
and thin, with the slight stoop
Have you any idea how long a ten-inch cock is?
The world seems almost physically wider when up to just now the
right-hand side was always obscured by the proximity of someone else;
and all of a sudden you stand there, astonished, in a wide
semi-circle: alone.
iconoclastically.
My love is pizza shaped. Won't you have a slice? It's circular, so there's enough to go around.
Immeasurable space.
Closeness.
The shortest distance between two women.
Measured my 'thing'. It was eleven centimetres.
All sports are games of inches.
...words so precisely placed that in combination with other words, also precisely placed, they carve out a shape in space and time.
titillate an ocelot?' Answer: 'Oscillate its tit a lot.
An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.
Smaller-than-Medium-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock
Crazy's favorite shape is a circle.
Beauty is in all shapes and sizes
Football is a game of inches and inches make the champion
...Thought lengths it, pulls
an invisible world through
a needle's eye
one detail at a time,
...
Baseball is a game of inches.
Her hair was down. It was real long. He hadn't known that. It hung down the front of her josie and kind of curled around those ... those big round places that he tried not to think about. Her ... her round places were really round. And they had points on the end of them.
The Infinite is the distance between both ears.
It never ceases to amaze me how adaptable social geometry can be. Within a couple of days I went from being the centre of the circle to an indefinite point outside its circumference.
Small as a pea. Wider than the sea. This is where you and I came to be.
I am bigger on the inside
But you have to come inside to see me
You're short on ears and long on mouth.
Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.
corner, an empty shell that is merely
Big heart,
wide as a watermelon,
but wise as birth,
there is so much abundance
in the people I have ...
You learnt a great deal, Louisa, and so did your brother. Ologies of all kinds from morning to night. If there is any Ology left, of any description, that has not been worn to rags in this house, all I can say is, I hope I shall never hear its name
My face is round, and my cheeks are pinchable, and my ears stick out farther than I'd like.
I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.
long squirrel guns
It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.
The world stands out on either side, No wider than the heart is wide.
rectangular slab of mincemeat that everyone, including the servers, referred to as baked turd.
Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
Sesquihoral (adj.) Lasting an hour and a half. Because sometimes you just don't feel like saying "an hour and a half." Short-thinker
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
I think I'm on an angle. I'm on an oblique angle through all of existence.
the toe of an enormous and heroic
See, the world is narrowing. We each live in a bubble of attitude. Everything tailored for us. No happenstance, only what I already am and know. At a certain point I find my shape is less here.' A palm flat on his chest.
'More out there.' Laying the palm on his keyboard.
She's Prim's size in diameter.
He had a penis eight hundred miles long and two hundred and ten miles in diameter, but practically all of it was in the fourth dimension.
A brisk, bright, blue-eyed fellow, a very neat figure and rather under the middle size, never out of the way and never in it.
The bigger the front, the bigger the back.
OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.
There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.
The world stretches before me, the vast world of the big, the little, and the medium.
Six foot eight and all asshole.
Hefty? I'd railed to Peter, waving the clipping for emphasis. Hefty? For the record 'Hefty' is a trash bag. I'm festively plump.
The infinitely small have a pride infinitely great.
I've decided to get into shape, and the shape I've selected is a triangle.
The ellipse is as aimless as that,
Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear
In our present. Its flexing is its account,
Return to the point of no return.
Om is the bow, the arrow is soul,
I know Oz, now," she said, and in the carving of the lintel she found that common ideogram, a Z circled with an O. "Usually letters don't hide inside each other," she told Glinda firmly. "No, that's true. In Oz, I suppose, something is always hiding ...
Not so much looking for the shape
as being available
to any shape that may be
summoning itself
through me
from the self not mine but ours.
But I am a-eppisodin' and a-eppisodin' to a length and depth almost onprecedented and onheard of - and to resoom and go on.
I'm short and to the point.
bhole whose form no man might see.
Inside skull vast as outside skull
The contour eludes me.
Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.]
There is no geometry here; or rather there is a secret, infinitely non-Eucledian and subtle geometry, a secret harmony that the mind seizes before the intelligence.
dark-gray cylinder,
I like shaped things. I like shape in things, and I do overshape things, it's true.
How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.
You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink.
JUST so you know, I don't have a gargantuan penis.
That first inch was the hardest. The longest inch in the universe. The inch that stretched a thousand miles.
Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
Om is the creative vibration, the seed vibration. The whole existence is hidden within it, just as a giant tree is hidden within a seed.
so full of shapes is fancy