Curves Quotes - Page 18

• She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Perfect, Together, Sculpture

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words...the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language. the world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable. It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear--filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Lying, Heart, Silence

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• She put out her hand and touched his forearm, as she would have touched some piece of porcelain or sculpture, just for the sheer animal pleasure of feeling its shape and curve beneath her fingertips.

  Rosamunde Pilcher

  Animal, Hands, Feelings

  Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “The Shell Seekers”, p.107, Macmillan

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• I wept bitterly, surrendering momentarily to my fear and heartbroken confusion, but slowly I began to quiet a bit, as Jamie stroked my neck and back, offering me the comfort of his broad, warm chest. My sobs lessened and I began to calm myself, leaning tiredly into the curve of his shoulder. No wonder he was so good with horses, I thought blearily, feeling his fingers rubbing gently behind my ears, listening to the soothing, incomprehensible speech. If I were a horse, I'd let him ride me anywhere.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Heartbroken, Horse, Offering

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• I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.

  William Faulkner

  Butterfly, Light, Air

  William Faulkner (2016). “The Sound and the Fury (Third International Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.90, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My rookie year was huge for me as far as the learning curve, especially those last three games.

  Tim Tebow

  Years, Games, Three

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• I hung my fingertips on his waistband, tugging him closer. Patch buried his face in the curve of my shoulder, his hands flexing over my back. He gave a low groan. "I love you," he murmured into my hair. "I'm happier right now than I ever remember being.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Love You, Hair, Hands

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.538, Simon and Schuster

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• At that moment I had a thrilling sharp intuition. I knew it as if I held it in my hands: In the gloom of death that surrounded the two of us, we were just at the point of approaching and negotiating a gentle curve. If we bypassed it, we would split off into different directions. In that case, we would forever remain just friends.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Hands, Two, Forever

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• I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.

  Theodore Parker

  Atheist, Eye, Sight

  Theodore Parker (1908). “Centenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker]”

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• As we curve around into the loop of the City Circle, I can see that a couple of other stylists have tried to steal Cinna and Portia's idea of illuminating their tributes. The electric-light-studded outfits from District 3, where they make electronics, at least make sense. But what are the livestock keepers from Distric 10, who are dressed as cows, doing with flaming belts? Broiling themselves? Pathetic.

  Suzanne Collins

  Couple, Light, Cities

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.213, Scholastic Inc.

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• All of a sudden I feel more womanly, I feel like I got a figure. I was always really straight up and down, the skinny one in the middle, like that poster at Elaine's of the Supremes at Lincoln Center - it was done by Joe Eula. To me that's really a reflection of the way I was. I was just like a bean pole. Now I'm getting a few curves and I like it.

  Diana Ross

  Reflection, Lincoln Center, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under drifts of sand, regardless of lures, of seductions; to be poor always and unkempt; to be ridiculous in Piccadilly.

  Virginia Woolf

  Glorious Life, Perfection, Would Be

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.63, Virginia Woolf

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• He's looking at me as if the whole world waits for my next breath, with an intensity that makes my heart pound and my palms sweat and then he smiles, a sweet curve of his mouth, and my breath catches, but then I freeze because there is something about it, something beyond it that I know, that makes my mind go blank with fear and pain.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Sweet, Pain, Heart

  Elizabeth Scott (2011). “As I Wake”, p.42, Penguin

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• Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

  Srully Blotnick

  Money, Years, Two

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• I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.

  Audre Lorde

  Change, Shifting, Cusp

  Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: And Other Essays”, p.120, Courier Dover Publications

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• The real key to wealth is the gradual accumulation, it's something Jesus talked about I call the law of use and you couple with the exponential curve.

  Pat Robertson

  Jesus, Couple, Real

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Old people who live too long come to resemble turtles. As though time turned in a curve, and down they go to the reptiles again. Not the little wet naked frog they were born. But the tortoise. Cold eyes, sagging circles of skin, the nose becomes beak. The shell of sleep.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Sleep, Eye, Turtles

  Josephine Winslow Johnson (1996). “The Inland Island”, Writer's Digest Books

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• What's so kind of beautiful about the whole thing was that everything that made me not right for all of those hundreds of commercial auditions that I went on and no one ever wanted me for is what made me perfectly right for 'Real Women Have Curves'.

  America Ferrera

  Beautiful, Real, Auditions

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• A hat is a shameless flatterer, calling attention to an escaping curl, a tawny braid, a sprinkling of freckles over a pert nose, directing the eye to what is most unique about a face. Its curves emphasize a shining pair of eyes, a lofty forehead; its deep brim accentuates the pale tint of a cheek, creates an aura of prettiness, suggests a mystery that awakens curiosity in the onlooker.

  Jeanine Larmoth

  Eye, Unique, Escaping

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• No matter how significant or life-changing your greatest hit or miss might be, neither even begins to define who you are. Each of us is a product of all our experiences and all our interactions with other people. To cite calculus, we are the area under the curve.

  Colin Powell

  Life Changing, Interaction With Others, People

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• I want to look my best, but I'm not a model. I'm not an actress. I'm representing normal girls. It's OK to have a little bit of curve. I'm happy with my body. So many girls come up to me and say, "Thank you for being normal," and I'm proud of that.

  Miranda Lambert

  Girl, Looks, Body

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.

  Alan Kay

  Desire, Easy, Results

  "An Interview with Computing Pioneer Alan Kay". Interview with David Greelish, techland.time.com. April 2, 2013.

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• I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

  H. R. Giger

  Art, Lines, Elegance

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• Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.

  Audre Lorde

  America, Black, Ancient

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• Between highway sounds I heard waves and thought how the curve of the coastline here had sheltered and nurtured live-born sharks, humans, and migrating whales. Here, at the edge of the continent, time and distance stopped; in the lull between sets of waves I could get a fresh start.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Distance, Ocean, Sharks

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