Curves Quotes
421 Curves quotes by 359 unique authors
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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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At that moment I had a thrilling sharp intuition. I knew it as if I held it in my hands: In the gloom of death…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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I hung my fingertips on his waistband, tugging him closer. Patch buried his face in the curve of my shoulder, his hands flexing over my…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of…
— William Faulkner
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He felt warm and familiar. He felt solid and safe. I wanted to cling to his shirt, bury my face into the warm curve of…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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In one universe, they are gorgeous, straight-teethed, long-legged, wrapped in designer fashions, and given sports cars on their sixteenth birthdays. Teacher smile at them and…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
— Djuna Barnes
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A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions.…
— Oscar Wilde
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I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach, in the curve…
— Isabel Allende
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It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain…
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to…
— Beryl Markham
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Everything that falls upon the eye is apparition, a sheet dropped over the world's true workings. The nerves and the brain are tricked, and one…
— Marilynne Robinson
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You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.
— Mae West
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When one of my Japanese teacups is broken, I imagine that the real cause was not the careless hand of a maid but the anxieties…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment,…
— Vladimir Lenin
Who Wrote These Curves Quotes
359 authors contributed a total of 421 Curves Quotes, led by these top contributors: