Smoothed Quotes

38 quotes by 33 authors

Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom… — William Cowper
My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange trees, winter butterflies, seasons reversed… — Marco Roth
I was thinking about time, how on a movie set the shot is maintained in the same time no matter how many takes and hours… — Eleanor Coppola
Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe… — Robert Guillaume
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence. — Livy
There are peaks, there are valleys. But they're all kind of carved and smoothed out, and it feels like a low level of despair you… — Jim Carrey
The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the… — Fritz Sauckel
One of the few graces of getting old-and God knows there are few graces-is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the… — Maurice Sendak
Men are polished, through act and speech, Each by each, As pebbles are smoothed on the rolling beach. — John Townsend Trowbridge
Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a… — Washington Irving
A pure heart is perhaps one which has no natural propulsion towards anything in any manner whatsoever. When in its extreme simplicity such a heart… — Maximus the Confessor
Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly… — Louise Erdrich
If all the stars and galaxies in the universe today were smoothed out into a uniform sea of atoms, there would only be about one… — John D. Barrow
I love the me I am with him. Iâ€™m the girl who has Dave. Iâ€™m Lauren, Daveâ€™s girlfriend. Iâ€™m someone better than Lauren Smith, who… — Elizabeth Scott
Fangâ€™s hand gently smoothed my hair off my neck. My breath froze in my chest, and every sense seemed hyperalert. His hand stroked my hair… — James Patterson
When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would… — Cormac McCarthy
I donâ€™t know, shifted a little or something, smoothed downâ€“people would think of me the way they think of Dave, and everything would always be… — Elizabeth Scott
Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth is, life itself,… — Brenda Ueland
Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind's Eye, because one never remembered them as… — Marisha Pessl
...When our thoughts revolve we are so often deceived into supposing that their violent movement is an indication of their vigorous originality, the upheaval of… — Janet Frame

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