Smooth Quotes - Page 12

• Politeness smooths wrinkles.

  Joseph Joubert

  Wrinkles, Politeness

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• He did look like the Monopoly man, but it was smooth. I thought he was going to pull a monocle out. That would have been awesome. And did you see the pocket watch? That was incredible.

  Richard Sherman

  Men, Nfl, Pockets

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• Smooth words in place of gifts.
  [Lat., Dicta docta pro datis.]

  Plautus

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• I use the echo effect a lot when I DJ because it allows for smooth transitions, especially at different BPMs. It also adds a studio quality to live DJ performances.

  DJ Jazzy Jeff

  Echoes, Quality, Use

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• We must offer ourselves to God like a clean, smooth canvas and not worry ourselves about what God may choose to paint on it, but at each moment, feel only the stroke of His brush.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Worry, May, Canvas

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• More wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of the ocean. Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. All my days I have watched it and listened to it, and I know it well. At first it told to me only the plain little tales of calm beaches and near ports, but with the years it grew more friendly and spoke of other things; of things more strange and more distant in space and time.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Beach, Ocean, Book

  H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “Complete Collection Of H. P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks With 100+ Audiobooks (Complete Collection Of Lovecraft's Fiction, Juvenilia, Poems, Essays And Collaborations)”, p.953, Ageless Reads

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• Every limited mind demands a certain freedom of expression, and the man who cannot express himself satisfactorily without the stimulation derived from the spirited mode of two centuries ago should certainly be permitted to follow without undue restraint a practice so harmless, so free from essential error, and so sanctioned by precedent, as that of employing in his poetical compositions the smooth and inoffensive allowable rhyme.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Men, Errors, Expression

  "The Allowable Rhyme". Book by H. P. Lovecraft, 1915.

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• Useful knowledge, practical kindness, and beneficent laws -- these are not the Gospel; but, like philosophy, they are, or may be, its handmaids. They may make its task smooth and grateful; they may associate themselves with its victories, or they may prepare its way.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Kindness, Philosophy, Grateful

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• I wouldn't say our relationship is always smooth sailing. In a fun sort of way, this publicizing of some feud has brought us closer together. I think it had to do with shooting an episode last season at a school. The students swarmed around him, and I'm walking along and feeling like yesterday's lunch. I was saying that was hard to deal with sometimes and he said, "Stephanie, you can go for it! All you have to do is play sexy." It was a nice chat, but the tabloids took it and made it out that I was jealous. I'm not jealous.

  Stephanie Zimbalist

  Sexy, Fun, Nice

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• You cannot find the centre Where we dance , where we play, Where life is still asleep Under the closed flower , Under the smooth shell Of eggs in the cupped nest That mock the faded blue Of your remoter heaven .

  R. S. Thomas

  Flower, Blue, Play

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas”, p.57, Hachette UK

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• Beautiful women seldom want to act. They are afraid of emotion and they do not try to extract anything from a character that they are portraying, because in expressing emotion they may encourage crow's feet and laughing wrinkles. They avoid anything that will disturb their placidity of countenance, for placidity of countenance insures a smooth skin.

  Laurette Taylor

  Beautiful, Character, Feet

  "The Quality You Need Most". Green Book Magazine, April 1914.

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• When a story has gone the grand circuit, and travels back to us uncontradicted, we may reasonably begin to relax in our belief of it. If nobody questions it, it is manifestly a fiction; if it passes current, it is almost sure to be a counterfeit. The course of truth never yet ran smooth.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Relax, May, Gone

  "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "That what Everybody Says must be True", 1846.

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• Andy Wiliams' smooth voice and casual style turned the songs he sang into timeless classics and made him one of America's top pop singers. ... The entertainment industry has lost a giant piece of its living history today, but Williams' legacy will forever be enshrined in the annals of music and television.

  Neil Portnow

  Song, Voice, America

  "Crooner Andy Williams Dies at 84" by Mike Barnes, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 26, 2012.

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• We must be careful not to choose, but to let God's Holy Spirit manage our lives; not to smooth down and explain away, but to stir up the gift and allow God's Spirit to disturb us and disturb us and disturb us until we yield and yield and yield and the possibility in God's mind for us becomes an established fact in our lives, with the rivers in evidence meeting the need of a dying world.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Letting Go, Yield, Rivers

  Smith Wigglesworth (2016). “Smith Wigglesworth on Manifesting the Power of God: Walking in God's Anointing Every Day of the Year”, p.123, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Tough Olympic news for the Romneys. Ann Romney's horse Rafalka did not advance to the Olympic finals. Apparently it was beat by a smooth-talking socialist horse from Kenya.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Horse, London Olympics

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• It seems to me more important actually to share someones distress than to use smooth words about it.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Important, Use, Share

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Huge lemons, cut in slices, would sink like setting suns into the dusky sea, softly illuminating it with their radiating membranes, and its clear, smooth surface aquiver from the rising bitter essence.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Food, Cutting, Sea

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• I look at a stream and I see myself: a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacles until they become smooth and, one day, disappear - flowing from an origin that has been forgotten toward an end that will never be.

  Miriam Makeba

  One Day, Looks, Obstacles

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• He hasn't lost his vision. That's one thing. He's good. The guy is smooth and knows how to set up blocks. He's a veteran, too. It's fun to watch him run. Hopefully everything works out all right physically, but certainly he looks good so far.

  Jake Delhomme

  Running, Fun, Block

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• I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face,I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it all. I will share your life with you, Meredith, and I will love you until the last breath leaves your body or mine.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Romantic, Lost Love, Love You

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• Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, Military, War

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• People looking up at her--at her smooth pretty vivacious face--had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind.

  Betty Smith

  Knowing, People, Mind

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Running, Angel

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• We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it to gravel, we can shape it into glory. Examples from every other life are left for us to see, lifeworks finished and unfinished, guiding and warning. Near the end our sculpture is nearly finished, and we can smooth and polish what we started years before. We can make our progress then, but to do it we must see past the appearances of age.

  Richard Bach

  Block, Past, Years

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• I closed my eyes, put my right hand on top of the book, and passed it lightly across the cover. It was cool and smooth like a stone from the bottom of the brook, and it stilled me. A whole other world is inside there, I thought to myself, and that's where I want to be.

  Katherine Hannigan

  Book, Eye, Hands

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