against the smooth surface, where it was met with

A smooth surface of a river has a churning current underneath

— Herojit Philem

I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This…

— Katrina Kenison

In the case of those solids, whether of earth, or rock, which enclose on all sides and contain crystals, selenites, marcasites, plants and their…

— Anonymous

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on,…

— John Dryden

What I find is that many times when I work with chance, with indeterminacy, I am more open to experience, less prone to a…

— Sergio Chejfec

I sit back on my bed cross-legged and find myself rubbing the smooth iridescent surface of the pearl back and forth against my lips.…

— Suzanne Collins

That to this mountain-daisy's self were known The beauty of its star-shaped shadow, thrown On the smooth surface of this naked stone!

— William Wordsworth

In the increasingly mechanized, automated, cybernated environment of the modern world a cold, bodiless world of wheels, smooth plastic surfaces, tubes, pushbuttons, transistors, computers,…

— Eldridge Cleaver

The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright--…

— Lewis Carroll

It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is…

— Neil Peart

Shall we keep men in a fool's paradise? Shall we lull them into soft slumbers from which they will awake in hell? Are we…

— Charles Spurgeon

Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities,…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out now, like…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

As we go through this transition where a lot more people will be reading on devices, nobody is paying enough attention to make sure…

— James Patterson

Be in a state of gratitude for everything that shows up in your life. Be thankful for the storms as well as the smooth…

— Wayne Dyer