Quotes with curve

  • The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
  • There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.

Quotes 1 till 16 of 16.

  • Baldwin Spencer 2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.
    Baldwin Spencer
    Antigua and Barbuda politican and labour leader (1948 - )
    - +
    +2
  • Ring Lardner An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.
    - +
     0
  • Carre Otis But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I've come to understand these curve balls are the beautiful unfolding of both karma and current.
    Carre Otis
    American model and actress (1968 - )
    - +
     0
  • Audre Lorde Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
    - +
     0
  • Casey Affleck For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
    - +
     0
  • Kabbalah Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.
    - +
     0
  • Bruno Mars I feel it's my job to continue being a student of music if I want to continue being an artist and a producer of other artists. You have to keep filling your mind with other music. You have to be ahead of the curve.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bruce Feirstein I think you need to understand games to write them. There's a learning curve, just like there's a learning curve in anything. It's not precisely the same as film or television, but you're using the same muscles.
    Bruce Feirstein
    American screenwriter and humorist (1956 - )
    - +
     0
  • Ben Affleck I've finally learnt how to say, "No comment". To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bernard De Voto It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve without generating electricity, a trumpeter swan may float on uncontaminated water - and moderns may at least see what their ancestors knew in their nerves and blood.
    - +
     0
  • David Herbert Lawrence Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
    - +
     0
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
    - +
     0
  • Benjamin Cardozo Our course of advance... is neither a straight line nor a curve. It is a series of dots and dashes.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
    - +
     0
  • Carl Hiaasen The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bill James There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, he says, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.
    The Mind of Bill James, 2006, p. 191
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
    - +
     0
  • Brad Gilbert There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.
    Brad Gilbert
    American tennis player (1961 - )
    - +
     0
All curve famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com