Revolves Quotes

• For the party, the Beijing Games are the biggest political happening of 2008. Everything revolves around them. This will be a huge celebration for the President Hu Jintao and the Premier Wen Jiabao.

  

  Liu Xiaobo
  • Political
  • Party
  • President

• This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus the Pythagorean believes that, like the sun and moon, it revolves around the fire in an oblique circle. Heraclides of Pontus and Ecphantus the Pythagorean make the earth move, not in a progressive motion, but like a wheel in rotation from west to east around its own center."

  

  Plutarch
  • Believes
  • Motion
  • Rotation

• On parties it's not about who you are. The real reason to which a party revolves is how good you look.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Reason
  • Revolves

• They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve around Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the center of the primary exactly three of his diameters, and the outermost five: the former revolves in the space of ten hours, and the latter in twenty-one and a half, so that the squares of their periodical times are very near in the same proportion with the cubes of their distances from the center of Mars; which evidently shows them to be governed by the same Law of Gravitation that influences the other heavenly bodies.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Stars
  • Discovered
  • Governed

• The thing that people don't realize is that this business revolves around us, whether we like it or not, ... they're getting signed. They pay my bills.

  

  Chris Cagle
  • People
  • Business
  • Pay

• In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Time
  • Move
  • Revolves

• Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • Author
  • Evolution
  • Theory

• For a long time, science has gone in the direction of sort of putting people in their place. We learned that the sun doesn't revolve around the Earth, the Earth revolves around the sun; we learned that we're just another species, evolved, like all other species, so we're just another animal, really.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Science
  • Animal
  • Learned