Smooth Quotes

506 Smooth quotes by 410 unique authors

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away… — Barbara Walters
The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it,… — Laura Ingalls Wilder
There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the… — Toni Morrison
may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone. — E E Cummings
I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by… — Laurell K. Hamilton
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and… — Winston Churchill
People looking up at her--at her smooth pretty vivacious face--had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind. — Betty Smith
They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is… — William Shakespeare
We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We can drag it… — Richard Bach
I closed my eyes, put my right hand on top of the book, and passed it lightly across the cover. It was cool and smooth… — Katherine Hannigan
If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth--certainly… — Henry David Thoreau
If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm,… — Pythagoras
Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you… — Walt Whitman
She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about… — C.S. Lewis
She stepped out from among their shifting confusion of lovely lights and shadows. A circle of grass, smooth as a lawn, met her eyes, with… — C.S. Lewis
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is… — Mark Twain
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to… — D. H. Lawrence
For writers: If you polish a book too much, it'll be flat and shiny and smooth--and not too interesting. It's the little pits and bumps… — Lori Foster
No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear...the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a… — Pema Chodron
....he said it was interesting. He used the word 'textured'. He said 'smooth' is boring but 'textured' was interesting, and the scar meant that I… — Jeannette Walls
One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth,… — Michael Ignatieff
The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright-- And… — Lewis Carroll
But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization… — Sarah Dessen
maggie and milly and molly and may went down to the beach (to play one day) and maggie discovered a shell that sang so sweetly… — E E Cummings
In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt… — Ernest Hemingway

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410 authors contributed a total of 506 Smooth Quotes, led by these top contributors: