Smooth quotes
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May God deliver us from the easygoing, smooth, comfortable Christianity that never lets the truth get hold of us.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
I wear Spanx to smooth things out. I read that Jessica Alba wears them and if she wears them, then so should I.
-- Amanda Bynes -
Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.
-- Ann Hood -
For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising.
-- Austan Goolsbee -
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A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale
-- Benoit Mandelbrot -
Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.
-- Bruce Sterling -
Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and chaotic and desperately secretive underneath, but not noticeably so, never noticeably so.
-- Caroline Knapp -
Victor Oladipo is like a baby’s bottom – smooth and sometimes explosive.
-- Clark Kellogg -
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There is no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them just to make the music more of a sanctuary.
-- Daniel Johns -
Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?
-- Dashiell Hammett -
Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly.
-- Desi Arnaz -
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The thing is, I am a loving person. I am super sappy when it comes to romance. But I'm not the Antonio Banderas, swashbuckling, Pierce Brosnan, smooth-talking type.
-- Dev Patel -
It hasn't been a totally smooth road, but in the whole span of things I feel like a very lucky person.
-- Edward Furlong -
You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright.
-- Elspeth Huxley -
There's something just so kind of smooth about politicians.
-- Emile Hirsch -
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Time may smooth the stone, but time will never wear it away.
-- Erin Hunter -
Again, a smooth answer, signifying nothing.
-- Euripides -
I had an agenda. It was a very smooth transition.
-- Frank Press -
Fair maid, white and red, Comb me smooth, and stroke my head; And every hair a sheave shall be, And every sheave a golden tree.
-- George Peele -
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What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, and how in the course of its striation it develops other forces and emits new smooth spaces.
-- Gilles Deleuze -
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 one of the Big Bang, dominated by gravitation.
-- Hannes Alfven -
It is better, I think, to begin easily and get your running to be smooth and relaxed and then to go faster and faster.
-- Henry Rono -
His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.
-- Hippolyte Taine -
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Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.
-- Horace -
It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.
-- Jane Porter -
What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth?
-- Jocelyn Murray -
The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
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Love fattens on smooth words.
-- Katharine Hepburn -
Small jerks began to appear in my legs, my walk became unsteady precisely because I wanted it to be smooth.
-- Knut Hamsun -
The truth, she found, felt smooth, like a skipping stone in the palm of your hand.
-- Laini Taylor -
And one of my favorites was Eddy Arnold of course. He just had that smooth, soulful voice.
-- Little Milton -
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Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.
-- Louis Menand -
And I knew that, being an actor, you have to take the rough with the smooth and the highs with the lows. That's how it is.
-- Luke Evans -
Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.
-- Lynn Austin -
and when he moved it was like watching oil spread across a lake, smooth and fluid, almost vicious
-- Madeline Miller -
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Things I can feel. Hard. Soft. Rough. Smooth. But the inside kind of feel, it is all the same, like foggy mush. Is that the part of me that is still asleep? (9)
-- Mary E. Pearson -
When life is real, it's not going to be smooth.
-- Mary J. Blige -
The road less traveled will not be smooth
-- Megan McCafferty -
Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.
-- Norman McLaren -
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Nobody’s journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It’s just life’s way of saying, ‘Time to change course.’
-- Oprah Winfrey -
Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.
-- Paul Thomas Anderson -
I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
-- Raymond Chandler -
True friendship is like the asphalt of life. It fills in the potholes and makes the journey smooth.
-- Richard G. Scott -
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There's a moment when all would go smooth and even, If only the dead could find out when To come back, and be forgiven.
-- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton -
So false is faction, and so smooth a liar, As that it never had a side entire.
-- Samuel Daniel -
It is hard to look back and talk about a set of disjointed experiences as though they were part of one smooth progression.
-- Steve Guttenberg -
Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
-- Thomas Jefferson -
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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
-- Vikram Seth -
It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.
-- Warren Buffett -
Son, if the mountain were smooth, you couldn't climb it.
-- Wintley Phipps -
I'm pretty well-rounded. I can do most of my tricks left and right, in both directions. I try to be smooth and confident. But it's still developing. I'm still trying to find my own personal touch in the way I ski.
-- Nick Goepper -
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It is not only important how long your breath is. What is more important is how smooth and subtle it is. For length of breath without the accompanying subtlety is fruitless.
-- T. K. V. Desikachar -
Victor Oladipo is like a baby’s bottom – smooth and sometimes explosive.
-- Clark Kellogg -
Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy.
-- Richard Asher -
We say that the words were smooth, caressing, hard, sharp, and so on: all words that refer to body touching. Indeed we can kill or elate with words as body experiences.
-- Humberto Maturana -
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I love a lot of old disco because it's aerodynamic, smooth, and very seductive.
-- Jens Lekman
