Smoothed Quotes
38 quotes by 33 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
— Livy
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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
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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
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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
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Men are polished, through act and speech, Each by each, As pebbles are smoothed on the rolling beach.
— John Townsend Trowbridge
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I love the me I am with him. I’m the girl who has Dave. I’m Lauren, Dave’s girlfriend. I’m someone better than Lauren Smith, who…
— Elizabeth Scott
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Fang’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
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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
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I don’t know, shifted a little or something, smoothed down–people would think of me the way they think of Dave, and everything would always be…
— Elizabeth Scott
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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
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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
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...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
Who Wrote These Smoothed Quotes
33 authors contributed a total of 38 Smoothed Quotes, led by these top contributors: