Curves Quotes - Page 16

• But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I've come to understand these curve balls are the beautiful unfolding of both karma and current.

  Carre Otis

  Beautiful, Karma, Balls

  "Flexibility, Inside and Out headshot" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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• When I was young I spoke like a child I saw with a child's eyes And an open door was to a girl Like the stars are to the sky It's funny how the world lives up to All your expectations With adventures for the stout of heart And the lure of the open spaces There's two lanes running down this road And whichever side you're on Accounts for where you want to go Or what you're running from Back when darkness overtook me On a blind man's curve I relied upon the moon and Saint Christopher

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Girl, Running, Stars

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• I always felt, even before I got pregnant, that it's better to accentuate your curves. A lot of women try to tuck their butt in or kind of slouch because they're trying to hide. Obviously, you can't suck it in, but it's important to really show off the belly.

  Marisa Miller

  Trying, Important, Kind

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• Straightway is a power word. Straightway is an action word. It means immediately, without delay or hesitation. It means at once. Also, it is associated with having no curve or turn-a straight course, track, or path. Procrastination would be the very opposite of straightway. To procrastinate is to put off intentionally and habitually something that should be done. Procrastination is unproductive delay.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Procrastination, Mean, Opposites

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• You don't think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating, maybe even exponential curve? It takes hell's own time to get started, but when it goes it goes like a bomb.

  Frederik Pohl

  Science, Thinking, Progress

  Frederik Pohl (1975). “The best of Frederik Pohl”, Sidgwick & Jackson

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• Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Travel, White

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.450, Penguin

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• ...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.

  Thomas Hardy

  Math, Lines, Graves

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy”, p.66, 谷月社

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• But it didn't stop him from loving her just a little. From loving all women-all shapes, all sizes, all walks of life. Their soft skin and softer curves, the way they gasped and giggled and sighed, the way the wealthy ones played their coy games, and the less fortunate ones looked at him, stars in their eyes, eager for his attention. Women were, without a doubt, the Lord's finest creation. And, at twenty-three, he had plans for a lifetime of worshipping them.

  Sarah MacLean

  Stars, Eye, Loving Life

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• The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with starlings like the creaking of many axles; only the tired walker know how much there is to climb, how the sidewalk curves into the cold wind.

  Charles Reznikoff

  Tired, Night, Journey

  Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.157, David R. Godine Publisher

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• A woman is often measured by the things she cannot control. She is measured by the way her body curves or doesn't curve, by where she is flat or straight or round. She is measured by 36-24-36 and inches and ages and numbers, by all the outside things that don’t ever add up to who she is on the inside. And so if a woman is to be measured, let her be measured by the things she can control, by who she is and who she is trying to become. Because as every woman knows, measurements are only statistics... and STATISTICS LIE.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Lying, Numbers, Age

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• The curve of imagination, the curve of brilliance and the curve of sanity are identical curves or at least similar curves... The more imagination a person has, why, the more intelligence, the more knowingness he has and the saner he's going to be.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Imagination, Sanity, Brilliance

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• If you know anything about me, you know that my life's taken a few unexpected curves and crashes along the way. But hey, at least I can say I took the scenic route!

  Naomi Judd

  Life, Taken, Hey

  Naomi Judd (2005). “Naomi's Breakthrough Guide: 20 Choices to Transform Your Life”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.

  John Mayer

  Long, Looks, Knows

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• If you step up the self-education curve, you will come up with more answers than you can use.

  Jim Rohn

  Self, Use, Answers

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 29, 2015

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• The learning curve on soaps is through the roof because it's a three-camera setup. There's a master and then there's two singles. And the great thing about soaps, and soap actors will tell you, is that when you get your line wrong, they don't re-shoot it. They just cut to the person listening.

  John C. McGinley

  Cutting, Two, Listening

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 10, 2006.

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• I have five pitches. Fast ball, change, curve, slider, screwball. I don't know any hitters. Catcher, he tells me what to do. I can get any pitch I want over the plate.

  Juan Marichal

  Balls, Want, Catchers

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• Highly effective people tend to be proactive. They decide to find a better job or to have better health, rather than of responding to whatever curves life throws at them.

  Stephen Covey

  Jobs, People, Action

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• People use me as a figurehead, and to me that misses the point and is blatantly offensive to thin women - my sister, for one. Curves don't epitomise a woman. Saying, 'Skinny is ugly' should be no more acceptable than saying fat is. I find all this stuff a very controlling and effective way of making women obsess over their weight, instead of exploiting their more important attributes, such as intellect, strength and power. We could be getting angry about unequal pay and unequal opportunities, but we're too busy being told we're not thin enough or curvy enough. We're holding ourselves back.

  Robyn Lawley

  Opportunity, People, Missing

  FaceBook post by Robyn Lawley from Nov 29, 2013

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• If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve.

  Norman Mailer

  Wind, Would Be, Path

  Norman Mailer (2013). “The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author”, p.570, Henry Holt and Company

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• God grades on the Cross not on the curve.

  Adrian Rogers

  Crosses, Grades, Praiseworthy

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• It is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice - guessed and refused to believe - that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the rainbow, and they its children...

  Thomas Pynchon

  Children, Believe, Moving

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.165, Penguin

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• A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?

  George Iles

  Science, Roots, Tree

  George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

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• Jimmy Connors likes the ball to come at him in a straight line, so that he can hit it back in another straight line. When it comes to him in a curve, he uses up half of his energy straightening it up again.

  Clive James

  Tennis, Energy, Balls

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• Love, for too many men in our time, consists of sleeping with a seductive woman, one who is properly endowed with the right distribution of curves and conveniences and one upon whom a permanent lien has been acquired through the institution of marriage.

  Ashley Montagu

  Love, Sleep, Men

  Ashley Montagu (1992). “The Natural Superiority of Women”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• Public opinion has been evolving nationwide when it comes to marijuana policy, and Californians have always been ahead of the curve.

  Rob Kampia

  Marijuana, Public Opinion, Californians

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