The British'Sphere of Influence'öthe cricket ball.

-Anonymous
Mr Punch's Book of Sport.

To think a soul so near divine, Within a form, so angel fair, United to a heart like thine, Has gladdened once our humble sphere.

-Bronte«  , Anne
  'A Reminiscence', in Poems by Currer, Ellis and  Acton Bell.

May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in perspective.

-Ce¤  zanne, Paul
  Letter to EŁ   mile Bernard,15  Apr.

   An ineffectual attempt to direct an uncontrollable sphere into an inaccessible hole with instruments ill- adapted for the purpose.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
Quoted in Michael Hobbs The Golf Quotations Book (1992).

O more than moon, Draw not up seas to drown me in thy sphere, Weep me not dead, in thine arms, but forbear To teach the sea what it may do too soon.

-Donne,John
c.1595^1605  'A  Valediction: Of  Weeping', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).

Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is.

-Donne,John
'Good Friday,1613. Riding Westward', published1635.

Lord of all being, throned afar, Thy glory flames from sun and star; Centre and soul of every sphere, Yet to each loving heart how near!

-Holmes, Oliver Wendell
^9  The Professor at the Breakfast  Table,'A Sun-Day Hymn'.

We call the heroes of the past heroes of production.We feel entitled to call the present day magazine heroes 'idols ofconsumption'.Indeed, almosteveryoneofthem is directly, or indirectly, related to the sphere of leisure time.

-Lowenthal, Leo
  'The Triumph of Mass Idols', collected in Literature and Mass Culture (1984).

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each canbecomeaccomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing todayand another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening or criticize after dinner, just as I desire, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

-Marx, Karl Heinrich
  The German Ideology (with Friedrich Engels).

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.

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

Wesit†and lookout attheboysintheir happy play†we kneel still with one little cheek wistfully pressed against the pane†and we go and stand before the glass.We see the complexion we were not to spoil, and the white frock† Then the curse begins to act upon us. It finishes its work when we are grown women, who no more look out wistfullyat a more healthy life; we are contented.We fit our sphere as a Chinese woman's foot fits her shoe, exactly, as though God made bothöand yet he knows nothing of either.

-Iron
  Lyndall.The Story of an African Farm, ch.17,'Lyndall'.

Mathematics is thought moving in the sphere of complete abstraction from any particular instance of what it is talking about.

-Whitehead, Alfred North
  ScienceAnd the ModernWorld.