#circle

When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#circle #could #difficulty #even #first

I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed Circle afterwards, I did sometimes feel I could hear him whispering in my ear while I was working on it. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#became #biography #circle #closed #could

Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be. ↗

— Anna Freud

#arranged #circle #create #least #matters

What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#care #change #circle #crime #get

It's okay to spin around and around in the same place. Just so long as you're singing your heart out. THAT's what life's all about. ↗

— Chica Umino

#circles #honey-and-clover #inspirational #locusts #inspirational

Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they’ll have jobs and get enough money to buy things. ↗

— Philip Slater

#commercialism #economy #endless-circles #failed-systems #greed

Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#circle #infinite #life #motion #life

It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me. ↗

— Paul Auster

#because #break #circle #difficult #extremely

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible. ↗

— Pearl Bailey

#any #certain #circle #contented #ideas

I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business, but who have become part of the circle for a short period of time. They can be truly devastated when the film wraps and people leave. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#business #circle #devastated #film #film business