„We are on a nice downward glide. I call it circling the drain … And the circles get smaller and smaller and faster and faster, if you watch the sink empty… Huish! And we’ll be gone. And that’s fine. I welcome it. I wish I could live 1000 years to watch it happen. From a distance — so I can see it all.“

— George Carlin
„Sometimes it happens that a man's circle of horizon becomes smaller and smaller, and as the radius approaches zero it concentrates on one point. And then that becomes his point of view.“
— David Hilbert
„I could either watch it happen, or be part of it.“
— Elon Musk
„I think that if you use the so-called "strong words" you'll get your point across faster and you can save a lot of beating around the bush.“
— Frank Zappa
„I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.“
— Henry Ford
„I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.“
— Rainer Maria Rilke