Curves Quotes - Page 19

• We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.

  Dan Pallotta

  Powerful, Fundraising, Upset

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• When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you're looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you're beginning to see the Earth evolve.

  Gene Cernan

  Moon, Order, Horizon

  "In the Shadow of the Moon", www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Blind Curve, the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation - an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story, the hero doesn't get off as easily as I did.

  Andrew Gross

  Crazy, Book, Hero

  Interview with Lisa Gardner, www.amazon.com. 2012.

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• I got the total package, you know, the curves, the rhythm, and the voice. I'm just the best.

  Miley Cyrus

  Voice, Dissing, Rhythm

  "How ‘Wrecking Ball’ Escaped Beyonce To Become Miley Cyrus’ Career-Defining Hit" by Ryan Perry, uproxx.com. December 21, 2016.

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• In "Three Cups of Tea" I was fairly critical of the military. And I mentioned that they're laptop warriors and there's no boots on the ground. But I can say now that they've gone through a tremendous learning curve.

  Greg Mortenson

  Military, Warrior, Tea

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. January 15, 2010.

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• I feel it's my job to continue being a student of music if I want to continue being an artist and a producer of other artists. You have to keep filling your mind with other music. You have to be ahead of the curve.

  Bruno Mars

  Jobs, Artist, Mind

  "Bruno Mars: The complete Q&A interview". Interview with George Varga, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 9, 2011.

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• Mathematics directs the flow of the universe, lurks behind its shapes and curves, holds the reins of everything from tiny atoms to the biggest stars.

  Edward Frenkel

  Stars, Atoms, Shapes

  Edward Frenkel (2014). “Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality”, p.5, Basic Books

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• What attracts me are free and sensual curves. The curves we find in mountains, in the waves of the sea, in the body of the woman we love.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Sea, Sensual, Mountain

  "Oscar Niemeyer, architect of Brazil's capital, dies aged 104" by Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2012.

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• It isn't fair that there's pressure exerted on those who choose to live on the edges of the bell-shaped curve of normal.

  Laurel Lea

  Bells, Pressure, Normal

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• My first book was called 'Buried Dreams,' about a serial-killer, which was probably about ten years ahead of the serial-killer curve. It was a national bestseller, but it was three years of living in the sewer of this guy's mind.

  Tim Cahill

  Dream, Book, Years

  "Wild Life: An Interview With Tim Cahill". Interview with Erik Kancler, www.motherjones.com. March 25, 2005.

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• I love the round, the curves, the undulation, the world is round, the world is a breast

  Niki de Saint Phalle

  World, Breasts, Rounds

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• He felt warm and familiar. He felt solid and safe. I wanted to cling to his shirt, bury my face into the warm curve of his neck, and never let go.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Letting Go, Safe, Faces

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2010). “Crescendo”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• Closed timelike curve is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.

  Kip Thorne

  Mean, Past, Jargon

  "Kip Thorne: physicist studying time travel tapped for Hollywood film" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2013.

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• You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.

  Thomas Hardy

  Eye, Years, Mouths

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics)”, p.14, Diversion Books

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• Axiom: you are a sea. Your eye- lids curve over chaos My hands where they touch you, create small inhabited islands soon you will be all earth: a known land, a country.

  Margaret Atwood

  Country, Eye, Islands

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “Selected Poems, 1965-1975”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Mi Corazon. Mi alma. Son tuyos." My heart. My soul. They are yours, he whispered against the generous curve of her breast as a million sensations, all of them hot, all of them rich, all of them straddling the razor-sharp edge of pain, ripped through his loins like a flash fire and stripped him of everything but consciousness. "Tuyo. Todo que tengo es tuyo." Yours. Everything I have is yours.

  Cindy Gerard

  Pain, Heart, Son

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• The road climbed into the mountains, Jonah taking the hairpin curves as fast as he dared. "You look so macho clutching the door handle that way," he said to Hamilton. "Just...be...careful," Hamilton said through clenched teeth.

  Judy Blundell

  Doors, Mountain, Teeth

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• I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.

  Edward Weston

  Home, Extraordinary Beauty, Imperfection

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• Arya.' He looked down the silvery river and then back at Arya, and he gripped the hilt of Brisingr. He was so full of emotion, he trembled. He did not want to leave, but he knew he must. 'Stay with me-' Her gaze darted up. 'I cannot.' '...stay with me until the first curve in the river.' She hesitated, then nodded.

  Christopher Paolini

  Rivers, Want, Firsts

  Christopher Paolini (2011). “Inheritance: Book Four”, p.868, Random House

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• I go into every meeting, into every room and for every speech understanding the standard deviation, the Bell Curve. I know there are about 10-15 percent of people in the room, who say, "I've been trying to say this for years. Finally. I agree. Yes, yes, yes." I know there are about 15 percent of the people in the room who think I'm an idiot, who think I don't know what I'm talking about, who think I'm naive or I have oversimplified everything. The majority who are open to the ideal.

  Simon Sinek

  Thinking, Talking, Years

  Source: advisor.tv

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• I don't like seeing celebs looking too skinny, I love it when they look healthy and comfortable in their bodies and embrace their curves.

  Lily James

  Healthy, Looks, Body

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 5 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.

  Baldwin Spencer

  Numbers, Promise, Transformation

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• I love the idea of embracing your curves and loving yourself while expressing it through fashion.

  Hayley Hasselhoff

  Fashion, Loving Yourself, Ideas

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• It's interesting to be an adult and to have that level of ignorance about something, because the nice part about is you get that discovery. The learning curve is so rich and steep.

  Demetri Martin

  Nice, Ignorance, Discovery

  Source: maximumfun.org

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• I just don't think most of us are aware how much of what we throw away ends up in the ocean, for starters. Plastic bags are among the worst. The US is actually falling behind the curve on that score. China and many other countries have already banned the production and use of thin plastic bags.

  Edward Norton

  Country, Ocean, Fall

  "Earth Chats: Edward Norton". The Washington Post Live Chat, www.slate.com. April 22, 2008.

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