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I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school. -- Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
That match was late evening and I had the experience of the electricity of the Centre Court because it was packed, a full house for the whole match. It had been a great year for me, first time there and I had the full taste of Wimbledon. -- John Newcombe
Time to open up a new chapter in life, and to explore a larger centre. -- Lillian Russell
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture. -- Saul Bellow
The Doors were successful. It was Jim Morrison as the centre and the figure and the spokesman, the figurehead, but we were all into the same thing. That's why we were a band. -- Ray Manzarek
He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon. -- John Milton
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
It was not Iraq that knocked down the World Trade Centre. -- Donald Trump
The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion. -- John Hanning Speke
I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school. -- Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all. -- Harold Pinter
At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar. -- Timothy Radcliffe
It feels really good to give back. I'm opening the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness Centre in Australia. -- Olivia Newton-John
I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything. -- Venerable Bede
I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court. -- Gabriela Sabatini
A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other. -- George Eliot
I was never the girl who walked down the centre of the hallway snapping people out of her way. -- Piper Perabo
For my first acting job I played the role of Ensign Pulver in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Manitoba Theatre Centre. -- Len Cariou
The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark Of the unfathomed centre. -- Hartley Coleridge
Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain. [Fr., Centre fortune, la diverse un chartier rompit nazardes son fouet.] -- Francois Rabelais
My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started a school. -- Greg Mortenson
Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre is a genuine project and a living proof of generosity of the people of Pakistan. -- Hadiqa Kiani
There's no doubt Milos Raonic will be a very tough final opponent, after all he beat [ Roger] Federer on Centre Court to get there. -- Andy Murray
In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner. -- Abdolkarim Soroush
Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
Because I feared I couldn't walk to Newton Centre without her, I needed to hike through desert, snow and woods alone.Childhood is a wilderness. -- Aspen Matis
It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow. -- Mel Smith
In 1998 I invested in the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at Strathclyde Uni and subsequently put more capital into enterprise education to try and help change the culture. -- Tom Hunter
At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately deciding to go to university. -- Philipp Meyer
I was against the war with Iraq. First of all, they didn't knock down the World Trade Centre. It wasn't Iraq that knocked down the World Trade Centre. -- Donald Trump
I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it up a bit, gave 'em a bit of thigh. -- Maurice Gibb
India knows that the subject of Land is not with the Central Government and the Centre does not require lands. All rights relating to land are with the states. -- Narendra Modi
Thanks to Lana Turner, Eleven Eleven, The Nation, LIT Magazine (USA), Critical Quarterly (UK), Beautiful Outlaw Press, no press, The Capilano Review, cv2, Rhubarb and Centre A Gallery (Canada). -- Erin Mouré
I grew up in the suburbs, so I remember arriving at Waterloo and seeing Big Ben and the coloured lights on top of the Southbank Centre and thinking, 'Wow!' -- Martin Freeman
After I broke the Australian record in 2014, Audi Centre in Canberra gave me a beautiful black A1 with the number plates AI 1111, because the record I broke was 11.11 in the 100. -- Melissa Breen
My girlfriend's dad runs the Prostate Centre on Wimpole St. in London, and he's chairman of Prostate U.K., which I think is the second-largest prostate cancer charity in Britain. -- Christian Cooke
The San Francisco Tape Music Centre was a kind of collective non-profit that my friends and I got started so that we could pool our equipment and make tape music. -- Pauline Oliveros
Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate; And many a Knot unravel'd by the Road; But not the Master-knot of Human Fate. -- Omar Khayyam
Bangalore now wants a person who doesn't only play politics. Bangalore needs a problem solver, and I am a problem solver. I will be the bridge between Bangalore and the Centre. -- Nandan Nilekani
Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth? -- Stephen Vizinczey
An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left, Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre. -- Alan Bennett
Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre. -- Lucy Powell
Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals. -- Vayalar Ravi
For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families. -- Lalu Prasad Yadav
Singing at the Opening Ceremonies of the Sydney Olympics in 2000 was amazing and, probably the highlight of this decade is the opening of the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in my hometown of Melbourne, Australia. -- Olivia Newton-John
And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter. -- Frederick Sanger
There is a book called San Francisco Tape Music Centre:1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde and this book describes everything that you want to know or don't want to know about it, with a lot of documentation. -- Pauline Oliveros
I love going into the centre of London because people don't give a monkey's about you or who you are. You can be in a restaurant and no one notices you or if they do they won't show it. -- Teddy Sheringham
Wimbledon attracted Bill Clinton to the gallery at Centre Court Tuesday at the All England Club. NBC cameras showed his head turning back and forth with each volley. Even at a tennis match, it looks like he's denying everything. -- Argus Hamilton
God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything. -- Bede Griffiths
Britain is obviously one of the world powers and they bombed the World Trade Centre, which is a landmark in itself, and over in Britain you've got Buckingham Palace and the Eiffel Tower, which are big buildings, so to speak. -- Robbie Kearns
I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God. -- Bede Griffiths
The iron arc of the avoiding journey Curves back upon my weakness at the end; Whether the faint light spark against my face Or in the dark my sight hide from my sight, Centre and circumference are both my weakness. -- Stephen Spender
At the beginning of June 1944, the war was reaching a climax. German troops had been brutalised by the savagery of the ongoing fighting in Russia, where the Red Army was secretly preparing its vast encirclement of the Germans' Army Group Centre. -- Antony Beevor
People from all over the world were killed in the attacks on the World Trade Centre. They came from many different cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds. Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu believers were killed together as they worked in the towers. -- David Blunkett
Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes. -- Wilfred Burchett
I am fortunate to have the ability to lend my name to build the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in my hometown of Melbourne. It will be a state-of-the-art facility to help heal the whole person - body, mind and spirit. -- Olivia Newton-John
I quickly realized that more than any other vegetable, the potato evokes strong reactions in people. As the head of communications for the International Potato Centre in Peru put it, 'No one gets worked up over lettuce like they do the potato.' -- Elizabeth A. Johnson
Our Government is pleased to partner with the Kelowna Visual and Performing Arts Centre Society, located in the heart of British Columbia's vibrant Central Okanagan region. Support for the performing arts is essential for the professional growth and development of our Canadian artists. -- Shelly Glover
The Prime Minister and the Chief Ministers are one team. The Cabinet Ministers and the State Ministers are another team. The Civil Servants at the Centre and the States are yet another team. This is the only way we can successfully develop India. -- Narendra Modi
I knew Mohamed Atta had something to do in this operation. I knew definitely that the White House and World Trade Centre would be hit. I knew it would happen after August. I was told it would happen at the end of the summer. -- Zacarias Moussaoui
I teach Korean translation at the British Centre for Literary Translation summer school, so I see an emerging generation too, who are around my age. I'm hoping to find time to mentor, and to help emerging translators to a first contract through Tilted Axis. -- Deborah Smith
You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights. -- Elvis Costello
Saying that I am talking out of both sides of my mouth just proves my very point. Politicians would bypass real social issues by referring to my grandfather, who founded the Muslim Brotherhood, or to my brother, currently chairman of the Islamic Centre in Geneva. -- Tariq Ramadan
Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's Centre Georges Pompidou of 1971-1977 - the true prototype of the modern museum as popular architectural spectacle - wound up costing so much more than planned that the French government solved the shortfall by cutting support for several regional museums. -- Martin Filler
Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together. -- Robert Musil
To keep up with the demands of the growing manufacturing sector, our Government is pleased to invest in the establishment of the Saskatchewan Manufacturing Centre of Excellence. Training skilled workers and increasing productivity and innovation are essential to the continued growth and prosperity of Saskatchewan, and Western Canada. -- Michelle Rempel
The mother-in-law is the centre of a family. -- Les Dawson
Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred. -- Mohsin Hamid
I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre. -- Lapo Elkann
After my last audition for 'Game of Thrones,' they said, 'Congratulations, princess.' I was like, 'Bye-bye, call centre.' -- Emilia Clarke
Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god. -- Derek Walcott
Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives. -- Pope Francis
The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist. -- Bertrand Russell
Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre. -- Taiye Selasi
The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only. -- Ramana Maharshi
The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life. -- Charles Spurgeon
When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping centre, I'd go down and talk to all the people running the rides. I like that whole lifestyle, moving from town to town in a nomadic existence. -- Randy Quaid
My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform. -- Tony Blair
Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions. -- Charles Jencks
I cannot possibly conceive of my planet Earth as the centre of a three-tiered universe. I know rather that the sun, around which my planet Earth revolves, is a middle sized star in a galaxy called the Milky Way that has over a hundred billion other suns or stars within it. -- John Shelby Spong
When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was rail thin, so it's not like I was a traditional Santa Claus even then. I had a square stomach; that was the shape of the sofa cushion that I had stuffed into my pants. -- Tom Hanks
The Southbank Centre Unlimited Festival was a distinct moment in time, an amazing counterpoint to the London 2012 Paralympics. There is no question that a major shift in perspective is taking place, that the world is waking up and greeting - as if for the first time - the extraordinary community of people with disability. -- Charles Hazlewood
So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant. -- Henry David Thoreau
After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre. -- Becki Newton
Find your centre and live in it. -- Ralph Waldo Trine
There can be no centre in infinity. -- Lucretius
Body experience... is the centre of creation. -- Barbara Hepworth
Bangalore has become a centre for healthcare. -- Geoff Mulgan
You are my centre when I spin away. -- Thom Yorke
And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung. -- John Milton
Even the human heart is slightly left of centre. -- Northrop Frye
The players must be at the centre of their industry. -- Rob Andrew
I think that I always loved being the centre of attention! -- Katherine Heigl
The bogholes might be Atlantic seepage. The wet centre is bottomless. -- Seamus Heaney
At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I press to my centre, and find there is something there. -- Virginia Woolf
Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be. -- Bono
The cross is the centre of all this in every respect. -- John Nelson Darby
We would root out terrorism if the BSP comes to the centre -- Mayawati
I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible. -- Rachel Weisz
If customer ignorance is a profit centre for you, you're in trouble. -- Gary Hamel
When you feel compassion, you dethrone yourself from the centre of the world. -- Karen Armstrong
We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position. -- Pierre Trudeau
We are now in the middle of the centre of the first half. -- David Pleat
My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack. -- Ferdinand Foch
Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre. -- Rasheed Ogunlaru
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Don't just create a change for yourself, be a centre of change to others. -- Richmond Akhigbe
You need peace to ground you and courage to act from the centre of yourself. -- Jay Woodman
Melbourne is a fantastic place to work, but it's not the centre of the world. -- Patricia Piccinini
The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis. -- Archimedes
For many young people, social mobility now means a bus down to the job centre. -- Harriet Harman
...Since in the centre of the soul there is a mansion reserved for God Himself... -- St. Teresa of Avila
...centre of the centre, the real heart of Christianity as it has been until now. -- David Friedrich Strauss
The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven. -- Philip James Bailey
True humility is a kind of self-annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues. -- John Wesley
Film is not a national business. It's international. And its centre will always be Hollywood. -- Eric Fellner

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