Smooth Quotes - Page 7

• To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees, I grew up as a part of his garden.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Garden, Thinking, Eggplant

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1992). “Papa, my father: a celebration of dads”, Ballantine Books

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• His bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The Western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel.

  Luigi Pulci

  Levels, Earth, Wheels

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• I use the Clarisonic electronic skin cleansing system. It's great for removing excess oil and make-up and leaves my face feeling really smooth and clean. Then I apply Avon Anew Rejuvenate Day Revitalising Cream and Creme de la Mer Eye Concentrate. I think eye cream is so important - it keeps me looking young and prevents wrinkles.

  Fergie

  Eye, Thinking, Wrinkles

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• Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love at first sight; it is ye who open the door and let the stranger in.

  Laurence Sterne

  Sight, Doors, Grace

  Laurence Sterne (1873). “The Works of Laurence Sterne with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.330

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• Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead, for the door of choice is not open either to thee or me.

  Hafez

  Doors, Choices, Contentment

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• Nice writing isn't enough. It isn't enough to have smooth and pretty language. You have to surprise the reader frequently, you can't just be nice all the time. Provoke the reader. Astonish the reader. Writing that has no surprises is as bland as oatmeal. Surprise the reader with the unexpected verb or adjective. Use one startling adjective per page.

  Anne Bernays

  Nice, Writing, Oatmeal

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• A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.

  William Gurnall

  Gun, Men, Knives

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• I think there was a pretty smooth hand-off from the administration of President Clinton to the administration of President Bush, particularly in the counterterrorism area. The reason I say that is because there was, for transitions, I think a stunning continuity.

  Richard Armitage

  Thinking, Hands, President

  Hearing by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, www.washingtonpost.com. March 24, 2004.

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• Tried to find me an executive position, but no matter how smooth I talked they wouldn't listen to the fact that I was a genius.

  Jim Croce

  Genius, Matter, Facts

  Song: Workin' At The Carwash Blues

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• True love never runs smooth, that's what they say, but true love is worth all the pain.

  Gene Pitney

  Love, Running, Pain

  Song: True Love Never Runs Smooth

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• Handsome brother with a smooth goatee, makes me wonder why he act so ugly.

  LL Cool J

  Family, Brother, Ugly

  Song: Father, Album: Phenomenon

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• The earthly power sucks shadowed milk from sleepy tears undone, from nippled skin as smooth as silk the bugles blown as one.

  Peter Gabriel

  Tears, Skins, Milk

  Song: Come Talk to Me, 1992

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• When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Mind, Done, Movement

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.40, Rodale

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• May God deliver us from the easygoing, smooth, comfortable Christianity that never lets the truth get hold of us.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  May, Christianity, Comfortable

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• You have to be an extremist to believe that you're gonna be the president of the United States and your name is Barack Hussein Obama! And he's using extreme methods, but his application is very smooth. Michelle Obama is extreme, her presence is extreme. And it's an extreme good. Extreme is not negative.

  Mos Def

  Believe, Names, President

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• I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm yet deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully deals his substance to the poor, than the long, smooth faced hypocrite.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Hypocrite, Men, Long

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• Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.

  Douglas Coupland

  Decision, Loser, Life Is

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “Eleanor Rigby: A Novel”, p.183, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I believe there's plenty of market for each; we're talking about an ecosystem that is going to support billions of devices, so a competitive landscape is good for consumers, developers, and the platforms alike. Apple brings a smooth elegance to its devices and platform, with the best marketplace experience to boot. Google brings a higher volume of devices as well as a more diverse ecosystem to interact with. The real story here is that Microsoft is nowhere to be seen, ending a two-decade monopoly and creating biggest opportunity for software startups probably ever.

  Aaron Levie

  Real, Believe, Opportunity

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• Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! - long - long since had ye numbered out my days, had I not trod so great a part of them upon this enchanted ground. When my way is too rough for my feet, or too steep for my strength, I get off it, to some smooth velvet path which fancy has scattered over with rose-buds of delights; and have taken a few turns on it, come back strengthened and refreshed.

  Laurence Sterne

  Sweet, Taken, Men

  Laurence Sterne (1805). “The Works of Laurence Sterne ...”, p.94

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• Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied; like a piece of metal constantly kept smooth and bright, we look on it with more pleasure than on a new vessel cankered with rust.

  Joseph Addison

  Age, Looks, Pieces

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1855). “The Spectator”, p.446

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• If I am inconsiderate about the comfort of others, or their feelings, or even of their little weaknesses; if I am careless about their little hurts and miss opportunities to smooth their way; if I make the sweet running of household wheels more difficult to accomplish, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Christian, Running, Sweet

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• The surface of the Moon is not smooth, uniform, and precisely spherical as a great number of philosophers believe it to be, but is uneven, rough, and full of cavities and prominences, being not unlike the face of the Earth, relieved by chains of mountains and deep valleys.

  Galileo Galilei

  Believe, Moon, Numbers

  Galileo Galilei, Raymond John Seeger (1966). “Men of physics: Galileo Galilei, his life and his works”

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• The thousands small birds of January in their smooth soaring cloud finding the trees.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Clouds, Bird, Tree

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• Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where the economy is depressed because of lack of demand

  Ben Bernanke

  Running, Long, Growth

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• We have a choice. We can live in the past and be miserable and unhappy, or we can pick ourselves up and move ahead in life. When we choose to focus forward, we can find the energy and ability to remove any obstacles that may appear to be hindering our smooth progression. If you take stock of yourself and find you may be spending time frequently reliving unhappy experiences of the past, make the decision to rid yourself of the ties that bind you to a former way of life.

  John Templeton

  Moving, Past, Ties

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