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  • Life is a cycle, and mime is particularly suitable for showing fluidity, transformation, metamorphosis. Words can keep people apart; mime can be a bridge between them.

    - Marcel Marceau
    Attributed.

  • He his fabric of the heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame, how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances, how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb.

    -John Milton
      Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.8, l.76^84.

  • On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.

    - Dervla Murphy
      Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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