Smooth Quotes
506 quotes by 410 authors
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To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly.…
— Charles Dickens
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He fished in his pocket for his keys and instead pulled out the last geode, gray and smooth, earth-shaped. He held it, warming in his…
— Kim Edwards
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Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.
— Pearl S. Buck
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Observation is like a piece of glass, which, as a mirror, must be very smooth, and must be very carefully polished, in order that it…
— Justus von Liebig
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In the case of those solids, whether of earth, or rock, which enclose on all sides and contain crystals, selenites, marcasites, plants and their parts,…
— Nicolas Steno
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Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I have never thought that you could obtain the extremely clumpy, heterogeneous universe we have today, strongly affected by plasma processes, from the smooth, homogeneous…
— Hannes Alfven
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We do not live in a time when knowledge can be extended along a pathway smooth and free from obstacles, as at the time of…
— Unknown Author
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We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road.
— Tony Snow
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How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.
— Black Hawk
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Running is so natural to me. When I was running track, people used to ask me, "When are you gonna start running hard?" The wind…
— Eric Dickerson
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As I see it, I'm just getting better and better as a rider - physically and mentally. I'm as motivated as I ever was. I…
— Cadel Evans
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If you're going through difficult times today, hold steady. It will change soon. If you are experiencing smooth sailing and easy times now, brace yourself.…
— James Dobson
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If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
— Myrtle Reed
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As I became aware that all things have unique spatial and temporal qualities which visually define and relate them, I began to perceive the things…
— Wynn Bullock
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Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.
— Horace
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Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the government, where it…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and…
— Jack Kerouac
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[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.
— Mark Twain
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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.
— Harriet Martineau
Who Wrote These Smooth Quotes
410 authors contributed a total of 506 Smooth Quotes, led by these top contributors: