Best Curved Quotes
96 Curved quotes by 78 unique authors
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As the skipping rope hit the pavement, so did the ball. As the rope curved over the head of the jumping child, the child with…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Mastery requires endurance. Mastery, a word we don’t use often, is not the equivalent of what we might consider its cognate—perfectionism—an inhuman aim motivated by…
— Sarah Lewis
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Consider a cask filled with a highly compressed gas. If we open one of its taps the gas will escape through it in a continuous…
— Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
— Oscar Niemeyer
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We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept…
— Ali Smith
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In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head.
— Guy Davenport
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I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. These properties we can only speak of when…
— Nikola Tesla
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Polly Jean, I love you. I love the texture of your skin, the taste of your saliva, the softness of your ears. I love every…
— Nick Cave
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I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long career and then…
— Terry Riley
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Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in…
— Frank Gehry
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Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.
— Bret Harte
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Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.
— Nathan Myhrvold
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
— Tennessee Williams
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I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing…. I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am, Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary, Looks down, is erect, or bends an arm on…
— Walt Whitman
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There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead, but there was…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we…
— Mitch Albom
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Statues are too much like dolls, and dolls are creepy. You keep expecting them to blink. And the ones that smile, like this?" Eve kept…
— Nora Roberts
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It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall: his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backwards through the ragged veil hanging…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Hooves clomping over the whitewashed planks, Doren sprinted along the boardwalk after Rondus, a portly satyr with butterscotch fur and horns that curved away from…
— Brandon Mull
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Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include myself. I know…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf.…
— Annie Dillard
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Rohan's fingertips drifted with stunning delicacy over her throat, behind her ear, pushing into the satiny warmth of her hair. "You are an interesting woman…
— Lisa Kleypas
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A slow smile curved over my face, and I leaned down over him. "No," I said. "Wishes are lies. Tell me you're going to leave.…
— Kim Harrison
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Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us.…
— Mitch Albom
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