Circular Line

Famous quotes containing the words circular and/or line:

    “Oh Lolita, you are my girl, as Vee was Poe’s and Bea Dante’s, and what little girl would not like to whirl in a circular skirt and scanties?”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone when the morning stars sang together and all the heavenly beings shouted for joy?”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Job 38:4 -7.

    God, to Job.