Curves Quotes - Page 7

• Life has loveliness to sell, / Music like a curve of gold, / Scent of pine trees in the rain, / Eyes that love you, arms that hold, / And for your spirit's still delight, / Holy thoughts that star the night.

  Sara Teasdale

  Stars, Rain, Love You

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• We continue to experience a steep growth curve and positive response from customers that are aggressively transitioning their procurement processes to leverage our technologies' benefits.

  Charles R. Jackson

  Technology, Growth, Benefits

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• I don't always have a five-year plan. One thing you must do in life is keep your learning curve as high as possible.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Years, Planning, Life Is

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• Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Space, Argument, Form

  Willard Van Orman Quine, Roger F. Gibson (2004). “Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine”, p.39, Harvard University Press

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• The art of British Columbia's native Indians played a big role in inspiring my creativity... the simplicity of the images, the graciousness of the lines and curves, and the emotional impact of the bright simple primary colours.

  Joe Average

  Art, Creativity, Simple

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• At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.

  Louis L'Amour

  Drawing, Clue, Structure

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• There was not one cause for our internment, but many - a deep-seated racial prejudice working on top of fear, distrust, and greed. So how is one to say exactly where history begins or ends? It is all slow oscillations, curves, and waves which take so long to reveal themselves ... like watching a tree grow.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Long, Racism, History

  Gretel Ehrlich (2017). “Heart Mountain: A Novel”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• I learned what I need to do in the long jump, what I needed to do in the javelin and I've been able to rectify those events. It's been a bit of a learning curve, which is good.

  Jessica Ennis

  Long, Events, Javelin

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The flamingoes are the most delicately colored of all the African birds, pink and red like a flying twig of an oleander bush. They have incredibly long legs and bizarre and recherché curves of their necks and bodies, as if from some exquisite traditional prudery they were making all attitudes and movements in life as difficult as possible.

  Isak Dinesen

  Attitude, Long, Bird

  Isak Dinesen (1938). “Out of Africa”

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• It's weird: I was in a conference room, shouting out story ideas in the voices of different characters, and it was something I had to learn because I'd never been in that atmosphere. But I think I had a quick learning curve, because this is the job I was supposed to have.

  Mindy Kaling

  Jobs, Character, Thinking

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com.

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• Abstraction didn't have to be limited to a kind of rectilinear geometry or even a simple curve geometry. It could have a geometry that had a narrative impact. In other words, you could tell a story with the shapes. It wouldn't be a literal story, but the shapes and the interaction of the shapes and colors would give you a narrative sense. You could have a sense of an abstract piece flowing along and being part of an action or activity. That sort of turned me on.

  Frank Stella

  Simple, Impact, Color

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You know, you can try and plan [filming] as much as you want, but you get there on game day and you get thrown a curve ball, I guess, hey, the game plan goes out the window. You've got to adapt.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Games, Trying, Balls

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Where I come from, there were traditions with my race and whenever you faced a curve in life, there was always a tradition.

  Chaske Spencer

  Race, Tradition

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• Well I loved Little League; so all the memories are pretty fond but I broke my thumb. That wasn't a lot of fun. I think probably the first time I pitched [I started out as a first baseman] and the first game I pitched in Little League, I struck out 10 batters. I had a curve ball a little early [laughs]. You're not really supposed to have one when you're 12, but I did, so I first game I struck out 10 batters. That's possibly my fondest memory.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Fun, Memories, Thinking

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• Salma and I had run into each other once or twice at film festivals because I was doing the press for Real Women Have Curves at the same time she was doing the press for Frida. She had seen Real Women Have Curves, and when the idea of Ugly Betty came up, she thought of me. Her enthusiasm about the project was so infectious-she spoke of it with such expectation. Everyone that was involved was really excited about the project. I really wanted to be a part of it.

  America Ferrera

  Running, Real, Ideas

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• Low gurgling laughter, as sweet As the swallow's song i' the South, And a ripple of dimples that, dancing, meet By the curves of a perfect mouth.

  Paul Hamilton Hayne

  Song, Sweet, Laughter

  Paul Hamilton Hayne (1882). “Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne”

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• The curve and the fast one are important; the change of pace and the other trick deliveries are great but they're not worth a plugged nickel unless you have control to go along with them. And by control I don't mean the ability to put the ball over the plate somewhere between the shoulders and knees. I mean the ability to hit a three-inch target nine times out of ten, the sort of control that lets you put the ball in the exact spot you want it, and to play a corner to the split fraction of an inch.

  Babe Ruth

  Mean, Yankees, Play

  George Herman Ruth, Babe Ruth (1992). “Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball”, p.11, U of Nebraska Press

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• It took me a while to warm to the '20s costumes on 'Downton.' I love it when women accentuate their curves, and that era was all about hiding them. The shapes they wore then were in tune with female empowerment. Cutting off their hair and hiding their busts was a way of saying, 'We're equal to men!'

  Lily James

  Cutting, Men, Hair

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• While in America beautiful is skinny, in Barbados it's thick - girls with huge butts and nice curves.

  Rihanna

  Beautiful, Girl, Nice

  Allure magazine interview, January 2008.

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• The developed world should neither shelter nor militarily destabilize authoritarian regimes unless those regimes represent an imminent threat to the national security of other states. Developed states should instead work to create the conditions most favorable for a closed regime's safe passage through the least stable segment of the J curve however and whenever the slide toward instability comes. And developed states should minimize the risk these states pose the rest of the world as their transition toward modernity begins.

  Ian Bremmer

  Risk, Transition, World

  "The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall". Book by Ian Bremmer, 2006.

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• I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly nuanced shades of gray.

  Fernand Leger

  Color, Lines, Shade

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• The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it is flat. Flat characters ... in their purest form ... are constructed round a single idea or quality; when there is more than one factor to them, we get the beginning of the curve toward the round. The really flat character can be experessed in one sentence such as, "I will never desert Mr Micawber." There is Mrs Micawber - she says she won't desert Mr Micawber; she doesn't, and there she is.

  E. M. Forster

  Character, Ideas, Quality

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• Everyone wants to be young and skinny. This is awful. Curves are marvelous. Wrinkles are hypnotizing. Why not just be happy with who you are?

  Alber Elbaz

  Wrinkles, Why Not, Want

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• My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

  John Cusack

  Jobs, Want, Behinds

  "John Cusack, Gen X’s Favorite Antihero". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. July/August 2008.

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• With a stretch belt, anything can be a dress - a dinner napkin, a tablecloth, even a towel. Just wrap and snap, and away you go in an incredible outfit. Another plus is that the belt will pull all eyes to your lovely curves, and they even look good around a coat or a jacket.

  Beth Ditto

  Eye, Lovely, Dresses

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