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• Gravity is measured by the bottom of the foot; we trace the density and texture of the ground through our soles. Standing barefoot on a smooth glacial rock by the sea at sunset, and sensing the warmth of the sun-heated stone through one's soles, is an extraordinarily healing experience, making one part of the eternal cycle of nature. One senses the slow breathing of the earth.

  Juhani Pallasmaa

  Healing, Sunset, Rocks

  Juhani Pallasmaa (2012). “The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses”, p.62, John Wiley & Sons

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• All in all it was a smooth race, the car was very well balanced. I'm very proud to be the first winner here in India.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Race, Car, India

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• Top Chef is a very smooth-running machine. All the people working there are incredibly professional and absolutely at the top of their game.

  Toby Young

  Running, Games, People

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• I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.

  Eminem

  Detroit, Rough, Talkers

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• I stood beside a hill
  Smooth with new-laid snow,
  A single star looked out
  From the cold evening glow.
  There was not other creature
  That saw what I could see,
  I stood and watched the evening star
  As long as it watched me.

  Sara Teasdale

  Stars, Long, Snow

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• I blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant. I blur things so that they do not look artistic or craftsmanlike but technological, smooth and perfect. I blur things to make all the parts a closer fit. Perhaps I also blur out the excess of unimportant information.

  Gerhard

  Art, Perfect, Important

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• Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

  John Dryden

  Betrayal, Ice, Way

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• A scrip on my back, and a staff in my hand,
  I march on in haste through an enemy's land;
  The road may be rough, but it cannot be long;
  And I'll smooth it with hope, and I'll cheer it with song.

  Henry Francis Lyte

  Song, Cheer, Hands

  Henry Francis Lyte (1833). “Poems: Chiefly Religious”, p.100

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• I now know my right from my left and my up from my down. Unluckily, my terrible sense of direction remains. For me, to live in New York City is to never be able to meet someone on the northeast corner. It is to never ever make a smooth entrance, always to get caught looking lost on the street.

  Sloane Crosley

  New York, Cities, Able

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• The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days.

  Charlotte Mason

  Mother, Children, Pain

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• I even believe in helping an employer function more productively. For then, we will have a claim to higher wages, shorter hours, and greater participation in the benefits of running a smooth industrial machine.

  Sidney Hillman

  Running, Believe, Machines

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• Like the vain curlings of the watery maze,
  Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise,
  So Man, declining always, disappears
  In the weak circles of increasing years;
  And his short tumults of themselves compose,
  While flowing Time above his head does close.

  Andrew Marvell

  Men, Years, Circles

  Andrew Marvell (1870). “The Poetical Works of Andrew Marvell: With Memoir of the Author”, p.96

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• I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Writing, Thinking, Clear

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• If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange thing, if we have to endure sicknesses, losses, bereavements, and disappointments, just like other men. Free pardon and full forgiveness, grace along the way, and glory at the endall this our Savior has promised to give. But He has never promised that we shall have no afflictions.

  J. C. Ryle

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

  "Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Mark".

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• I wouldn’t have taken him. Not because I don’t believe Michael Sam should have a chance to play, but I wouldn’t want to deal with all of it. It’s not going to be totally smooth things will happen.

  Tony Dungy

  Taken, Believe, Should Have

  "Tony Dungy's Explanation For Why He Wouldn't Have Drafted Michael Sam Is Pure Hypocrisy" by Tony Manfred, www.businessinsider.com. July 21, 2014.

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• All the way out I listen to the car AM radio, bad lyrics of trailer park love, gin and tonic love, strobe light love, lost and found love, lost and found and lost love, lost and lost and lost love—some people were having no luck at all. The DJ sounds quick and smooth and after-shaved, the rest of the world a mess by comparison.

  Lorrie Moore

  Lost Love, Light, People

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• See this pebble?" "Yes." "Take it." Eragon did and stared at the unremarkable lump. It was dull black, smooth, and as large as the end of his thumb. There were countless stones like it on the trail. "This is your training." Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand." "Of course you don't," said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around. Now stop talking or we'll never get anywhere.

  Christopher Paolini

  Confused, Teaching, Talking

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.187, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Everyone needs to realize why am I here? It comes in everyone's life; you ask why am I here? What am I doing? Once you are able to answer that question for yourself honestly, you have smooth sailing.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Smooth Sailing, Able, Needs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. O Never give the heart outright, For they, for all smooth lips can say, Have given their hearts up to the play. And who could play it well enough If deaf and dumb and blind with love? He that made this knows all the cost, For he gave all his heart and lost.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Heart, Kissing

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.63, Wordsworth Editions

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• It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.

  Raymond Chandler

  Silly, Hair, Voice

  Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.222, Modern Library

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• She finds tales everywhere, in grains of sand she picks up from the garden, in puffs of smoke that drift out from the chimneys of the village, in fragments of smooth timber or glass in the jetsam. She will ask them, "Where did you come from? How did you get here?" And they will answer her in voices very like her own, but with new lilts and squeaks and splashes in them that show they are their own.

  David Almond

  Garden, Glasses, Voice

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• Men are like dogs," Stacy was fond of saying. And she usually went on to add that, like dogs, they all took up too much space on the bed, and they always went for the crotch.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Dog, Men, Space

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.281, St. Martin's Press

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• So, even in the midst of craziness and exhaustion and life-changing chaos, I was filled with peace and the sweet knowledge that I was walking the path my Goddess wanted me on. Not that that path was smooth and pothole free. But still, it was my path, and like me, it was bound to be unique." Untamed

  P. C. Cast

  Sweet, Life Changing, Unique

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• Eighteen luscuios scrumpitous flavors, Chocolate,Lime and Cherry Coffee,Pumpkin, Fudge-Banana, Caramel Cream and boysenberry. Rocky Road and Toasted Almond, Butterscotch,Vanilla Dip, Butter Brinkle, Apple Ripple,Coconut,and Mocha Chip, Brandy Peach and Lemon Custard. Each scoop lovely.smooth and round. Tallest cream cone in town lying there on the ground.

  Shel Silverstein

  Lying, Coffee, Apples

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• As I spoke with scientists about the way fat behaves, I couldn't resist drawing an analogy to the realm of narcotics. If sugar is the methamphetamine of processed food ingredients, with its high-speed, blunt assault on our brains, then fat is the opiate, a smooth operator whose effects are less obvious but no less powerful.

  Michael Moss

  Powerful, Drawing, Brain

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