Quotes with smooth

  • I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.
  • Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steer is the way to it.

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  • Horace Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot 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
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Washington Irving An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Hesiod Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steer is the way to it.
    Hesiod
    Greek poet
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.
    The Fractal Geometry of Nature
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Virginia Woolf For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Austan Goolsbee 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
    American economist (1969 - )
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  • Antonia Fraser I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Pythagoras If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.
    Pythagoras
    Greek philosopher (580 - 504)
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  • Harriet Martineau If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • Vikram Seth Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
    Vikram Seth
    Indian novelist and poet (1952 - )
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  • Lord George Byron Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Buddy Wakefield Listen, if you're from Arizona I'm not making fun of your home. I'm making fun of you for gathering there and building a community in an oven. Smooth move.
    Poetry Arizona Summers
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Ben Bernanke Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where the economy is depressed because of lack of demand.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Barbara Walters Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Rupert Brooke The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.
    Rupert Brooke
    British poet (1887 - 1915)
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  • William Shakespeare The course of true love never did run smooth.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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