Ellipse Quotes

“The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the sun at one of the two foci.”

“Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.”

“I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.”

“Man is not a circle with a single center; he is an ellipse with two focii. Facts are one, ideas are the other.”

“I'm sorry," Billy says, "but I felt it was too organized. I like ellipses and teeny jottings and spontaneous poems and particularly all those devices like long lists of melancholy things.”

“His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever no straight unbroken line, for the rectilinear belongs only to Geometry and not to Nature and Life.”

“Like many people whose lives had formed around a particularly painful incident, she had grown used to providing ellipses around the event of her brother's death to keep conversations comfortable. At some point the subconscious logic of this had spread to the rest of her life so that she rarely talked about things she had been deeply affected by. It wasn't hard to do.”

“I love you like a semicolon”