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Art is when things appear rounded. -- Maurice Denis
I have a nice family and I'm well rounded. -- Evelyn Ashford
The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory - death. -- William Alexander
Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds. -- Norman McLaren
Believe it or not, I was all fully rounded by the time I was nine years old. -- Cleo Moore
We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep. -- William Shakespeare
I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things. -- Ed Harris
I try to eat fruit and veggies and meat and all the different categories and have a well rounded diet. -- Andrew Luck
You know, in a way, I wish I could hate a little more. It would make me a more rounded personality. -- Rod McKuen
I think that business leaders today have to be more rounded than they used to be, they have to be completely multi-functional and fast-moving. -- Stuart Rose
I'm sorry, but to ask an audience these days to invest three hours in a show requires your heroine be an understandable and fully rounded character. -- Diane Paulus
I have people who love me and people that I love and a man that I love. So in that sense, I feel that I'm pretty well rounded. -- Michelle Yeoh
When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son. -- Ellen Barkin
For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc. -- Roman Jakobson
I think the Pistons have such a well rounded team, which is why they're so successful. All you have to do is look at the stats defensively and at their rebounding and scoring. -- Chuck Daly
I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up. -- Leo Durocher
I am always baffled by age, but to be honest with you, I feel like I am about 34. I feel better now and I am certainly healthier than I was in my early 30s. I am more rounded, too. -- Julia Sawalha
Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming! -- Ricky Gervais
I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view. -- Bjorn Lomborg
If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps. -- Michele Bachmann
I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being. -- Julie Andrews
The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded. -- Edmund White
No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead. -- Van Wyck Brooks
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I was hiking a five-day loop - alone - in the Rocky Mountains when I rounded the switchback and saw a large body on the trail ahead. It had brown fur with a cinnamon tinge that was draped across dense, humped back muscle. A broad head lifted and I could see the dish-shaped muzzle was catching my scent. I knew bears. This was a grizzly. -- Claire Cameron
For me, the times in my life when I've been single have been more formative and crucial than I could have imagined. I can cope, function and be happy on my own. I'm highly capable. That doesn't mean I don't like being with a partner, or that I don't feel more rounded when I'm with someone. But the times on my own have been so good. -- Lesley Manville
Failure is just success rounded down. -- Ryan North
Our lives are rounded with a sleep. -- John Muir
I want to be a well-rounded, versatile performer. -- Zac Efron
Hitler rounded up all of the vampires in Europe. -- Taika Waititi
I want to provide a well-rounded perspective of life. -- Coolio
Although individuals need not be well-rounded, teams should be. -- Tom Rath
A specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded. -- Stanislaw Lem
No life is well-rounded without the subtle inspiration of beauty. -- Beatrix Farrand
I think my kids are pretty well-rounded citizens of the world. -- Simon Baker
I just wanted to be an actor. It's better to be well-rounded. -- Morgan Freeman
It is better to be a well-rounded Christian than a stoic, hypocrite. -- Lisa Askew
The boys are so well-rounded, they're so self-disciplined, there is so much camaraderie -- Kevin Pietersen
Artists don't come much cooler and well rounded than Lady Gaga. Love and respect. -- Nile Rodgers
I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off. -- Ani DiFranco
An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education. -- Geoffrey Canada
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. -- George Santayana
And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light. -- Gustave Flaubert
There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person. -- Idina Menzel
Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else. -- Ice Cube
I think training is helpful, but so is living a well-rounded life full of different experiences. -- Cynthia Addai-Robinson
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. -- William Shakespeare
Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person. -- Bruce Sterling
Gram for gram, spirulina could be the most nutritious and well-rounded food on the planet, which stores almost indefinitely. -- Gabriel Cousens
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I dont categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I dont judge; I just play them. -- Kevin Spacey
I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don't judge; I just play them. -- Kevin Spacey
My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can. -- Uzo Aduba
A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot. -- Patti LuPone
I paint a woman's big rounded buttocks so that I want to reach out and stroke the dimpled flesh. -- Peter Paul Rubens
I'm doing more than just making songs for the radio. I want it to be a well rounded sounding experience. -- Mario
It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax-paying citizens that understand the importance of technology and science. -- Bill Nye
Man, at his best, remains a sort of one-lunged animal, never completely rounded and perfect, as a cockroach, say, is perfect. -- H. L. Mencken
I am more stupid about some things than others; not equally stupid in all directions; I am not a well-rounded person. -- Saul Bellow
I do like a healthy dose of adrenalin, but my character is more rounded. I am not timid; I like excitement. -- John Caudwell
My job is to try and present the most fully-rounded character that I can, and bring a performance that people believe in. -- Dominic Monaghan
The profit was five, split evenly between the two of us, which meant that my fair share was three. (2.5 rounded off is 3.) -- Jarod Kintz
I like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded! -- Erin Duffy
Think of instinct as an unscientific, unquantifiable tool that can be used along with more concrete evaluations to make a well-rounded decision. -- Charisse Montgomery
But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock. -- Aldous Huxley
I was better at both ends, defensively and offensively, It was more of a well-rounded game. I want to add to that. -- Sidney Crosby
Life consists of two sides ... light and dark. Joy and sorrow. Without a balance, one cannot fully experience a full and well-rounded life. -- JoAnn Ross
Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded. -- Al Jourgensen
[Elijah Wood] is a really fully-rounded, amazing human being, and I feel incredibly lucky, especially given how closely we have to work together. -- Samuel Barnett
Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent? -- Saul Bellow
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The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded, writing implements penile. -- Will Self
I'm very fortunate. I have a wonderful family, lots of hobbies and athletic pursuits. I always wanted to have a very well-rounded life. -- Laura Lang
An opened mind will eventually lead to a more well rounded artist and this will thus heightenen his or her level of professionalism. -- St. Lucia
Her body was rounded like earth. Stories. Breath . Her eyes have been painted closed. I understand. To tell a story you must travel inward. -- Terry Tempest Williams
This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal death with Agassiz. -- Asa Gray
Jews bear children not only because the carnal election of Abraham must continue. For Jews, raising children is essential to living a rounded ethical life. -- Meir Soloveichik
Great teams are not made up of many well-rounded players. Great teams are made up of a variety of players, each having their own strengths. -- Pele
The soles of his shoes are worn the way the edges of erasers become rounded with use. As though he walks around correcting his mistakes. -- Nadeem Aslam
I've never really been a workaholic. I work very hard, but I also enjoy playing. I think it's important to have a balanced and well-rounded life. -- Condoleezza Rice
What kind of knife is this?" Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains' inspection. "It's all wrong. You couldn't kill anyone with this. -- Scott Lynch
I'm a well rounded artist and I love to make music and create and be different. Hopefully I get the opportunity to show the world that. -- Tony Sunshine
Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded. -- Horace
The minute that you make the discussion in the room more well-rounded, multicultural, and of course having differences in gender, you're going to have a different approach. -- Cara Santa Maria
I was thinking about New Mexico, and I rounded the corner in New York, and there was a New Mexico license plate: "New Mexico, land of enchantment." -- William S. Burroughs
Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism. -- Ameen Rihani
A good school provides a rounded education for the whole person. And a good Catholic school, over and above this, should help all its students to become saints. -- Pope Benedict XVI
If the character is really well-rounded, and it's a really strong character, and if the writing is just fantastic, that's the thing that will hook me in, certainly. -- Amanda Abbington
At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded." ... They might as well have said : Become as dull as you possibly can be. -- Donald O. Clifton
I believe education in music, theater, dance, and the visual arts... is part of a well-rounded education and can provide so much joy, now and in the future. -- Rudy Giuliani
The main purpose of education isn't just to receive a certification that leads to a career, but to become a well-rounded person in so many aspects of life. -- Edmond Mbiaka
I don't believe in prom,' I reminded her as she rounded a corner. I expertly angled my raisin bran to accomodate the g-forces. I'd done this before. -- John Green
The curve of her smile, the curve of the small of her back, the curve of her laugh, everything about her makes me want to be more well-rounded. -- Jarod Kintz
My mom was a huge Adam and the Ants fan. My granddad listened to a lot of Motown and Elvis and Johnny Cash. So I was kind of well-rounded. -- Hayley Williams
There's nothing like meeting someone's family to get a true sense of them and a reflection of their ethics and personality. It just makes them a more rounded person. -- Lenora Crichlow
I recognize that I possess a very special intellect, but at the same time, I recognize that I'm lacking in a lot of areas. But being well-rounded is greatly overrated. -- John Carmack
Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has led to people being rounded up and killed. -- Brewster Kahle
A wide range of quotations are necessary for the repertoire of a well-rounded speaker. Quotations are able to illustrate in a few words what is difficult to explain in many. -- Carolyn Warner
I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I'm more disciplined today. -- Pete Townshend
There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be able to enjoy your success more. It won't own you or control you. -- Ricky Williams
These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread. -- James Russell Lowell
If you can perfect the booth, the stage and just your persona, like maybe in interviews and when people talk to you, then you're a full well-rounded emcee in my opinion. -- Joell Ortiz
The politician is . . . trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him. -- Edward R. Murrow
A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover. -- Odeya Rush
She touched him everywhere she could reach. The rounded hardness of his biceps and chest, the ripped contours of his back, his thick, damp hair, until touching with his hands wasn't enough. -- Melissa Cutler
I was well-rounded, I'd been to college. It wasn't that I couldn't do anything else. I wanted to stay in sports, but if I couldn't think, how was I going to play? -- Paul Kariya
Overall I think the show went well, kudos to Miss Jeanie It was well rounded. From artwork to singing, to spoken word to short films, I think it definitely stimulated the audience's senses. -- Angie Brown
The joy of reading can take you so many different places. In addition to intelligence and stretching your mind, I just think reading is so crucial in terms of being a well-rounded person. -- Gayle King
I want to play a range, from victims to strong people, just as long as it's a well-rounded character. And it's not a woman who's just there for the purpose of the man. -- Bel Powley
I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer and taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week. -- Gene Kelly
I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week. -- Gene Kelly
So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man's life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations everywhere, and it is vain to travel to find it new. -- Henry David Thoreau
In your search for a rich or wealthy man to complete you, standup to the challenges of deserving a right man, and what you will have in the end is a well-rounded partner. -- Darmie Orem
[10 Things I Hate About You] is a smart and grounded film about a real, well-rounded girl. I think the only other teen film that came close to getting that right was Can't Hardly Wait. -- David Krumholtz
Will you succeed because you are more well-rounded than others? Because you fit in better than everyone else? Bloody unlikely. We succeed when we are trusted to be the best at what we do. -- Seth Godin
Getting a well-rounded education and developing a love of learning that hopefully will continue to last my lifetime certainly helped prepare me to understand what's coming at me in this world and to adapt. -- Len Elmore
The beauty of a lovely woman is like music ... the rounded neck, the dimpled arm, move us by something more than their prettiness--by their close kinship with all we have known of tenderness and peace. -- George Eliot
Fine dining teaches you how to cook many different things, and it gives you the basic fundamentals, but these specialty restaurants, theyre not teaching you the broad foundation you need to become a well-rounded cook. -- David Chang
Fine dining teaches you how to cook many different things, and it gives you the basic fundamentals, but these specialty restaurants, they're not teaching you the broad foundation you need to become a well-rounded cook. -- David Chang

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