Curves Quotes
421 Curves quotes by 359 unique authors
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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 saw the Light,saw the myriad spirits flying loose up the Tunnel towards the celestial blaze, the Tunnel perfectly round and widening as they rose…
— Anne Rice
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A virgin a whole virgin is judged made and so between curves and outlines and real seasons and more out glasses and a perfectly unprecedented…
— Gertrude Stein
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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
— Oscar Wilde
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Clare had studied the curves of those lips so many times that he could reproduce them mentally with ease: and now, as they again confronted…
— Thomas Hardy
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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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There is a way to master silence Control its curves, inhabit its dark corners And listen to the hiss of time outside
— Paul Bowles
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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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It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger along the silver line like…
— Janet Fitch
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...a choice had to be made when your husband said something unkind. Specifically: be cruel, be strong, or sulk. 'Be cruel' by saying an unkind…
— Jaclyn Moriarty
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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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Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty; Our hard, stiff lines of life with her Are flowing curves of beauty.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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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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Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
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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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She had more curves than a scenic railway
— P.G. Wodehouse
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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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Although love could grow in times of peace, it tempered in battle. Daddy told me once - when I'd said something about how perfect his…
— Karen Marie Moning
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So what rhyming poems do is they take all these nearby sound curves and remind you that they first existed that way in your brain.…
— Nicholson Baker
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It made Fire so angry, the thought of such a medicine, a violence done to herself to stop her from creating anything like herself. And…
— Kristin Cashore
Who Wrote These Curves Quotes
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