Best Curve Thoughts
307 Curve quotes by 276 unique authors
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Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked…
— Tom Wolfe
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Look at the scope of writers who sell stuff. I'm at the very top of the power curve in terms of sales.
— Tucker Max
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Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This…
— Eva Zeisel
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The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.
— Robert Frost
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I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should come with warning…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.
— Robert Henri
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Punctuationally speaking, wonder is a period at the end of a statement we've long taken for granted, suddenly looking up and seeing the sinuous curve…
— David James Duncan
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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point…
— D. H. Lawrence
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But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice -- guessed and refused…
— Thomas Pynchon
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I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his…
— Jodi Picoult
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Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings, And children's faces…
— Sara Teasdale
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The curve is more powerful than the sword.
— Mae West
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She put out her hand and touched his forearm, as she would have touched some piece of porcelain or sculpture, just for the sheer animal…
— Rosamunde Pilcher
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words...the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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I wept bitterly, surrendering momentarily to my fear and heartbroken confusion, but slowly I began to quiet a bit, as Jamie stroked my neck and…
— Diana Gabaldon
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A woman’s beauty lies, not in any exaggeration of the specialized zones, nor in any general harmony that could be worked out by means of…
— John Updike
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...What is more like love than the ocean? You can play in it, drown in it...it can be clear and bright enough to hurt your…
— Deb Caletti
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Often you shall think your road impassable, sombre and companionless. Have will and plod along; and round each curve you shall find a new companion.
— Mikhail Naimy
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When you're young your mother shields you from the world because she thinks you're too young to understand, and when she's old you shield her…
— Allison Pearson
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parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job,…
— Jodi Picoult
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But I do think that when people say 'a learning curve,' they make a mistake. Learning to me always seems to go in a straight,…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under…
— Virginia Woolf
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As we curve around into the loop of the City Circle, I can see that a couple of other stylists have tried to steal Cinna…
— Suzanne Collins
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There are some people that we know all our lives and yet never really feel we know them at all. But there are other people—”…
— Gaelen Foley
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I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the…
— Theodore Parker
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