Curves Quotes - Page 17

• I dont know too many parents that want to feed their kids soda, but high-fructose corn syrup is cheap. The price of soda in 20 years has gone down 40 percent while the price of whole foods, fruits and vegetables, has gone up 40 percent and obesity goes up right along that curve.

  Tom Colicchio

  Kids, Vegetables, Years

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• Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you cant get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.

  Tom Seaver

  Winning, Pitching, Plates

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• I'm interested in the left side of the Bell Curve.

  Simon Sinek

  Bells, Sides, Left

  Source: advisor.tv

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• There are people at the extremes who aren't able to do anything musically, and then others sort of fall in the middle. And the same thing with math, and the same thing with art. You'll find people who are geniuses, or prodigies at the far end of the bell shaped curve, and I think you will find some of the acquired savants in that category who happened to have been endowed with that kind of talent, which explains why not everyone becomes an acquired savant.

  Darold Treffert

  Art, Fall, Math

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• If you can instill a love of reading in your children, they will be ahead of the curve at school and in their lives in general. Their imaginations will be stimulated. I thank heavens for the father that gave me that to begin with.

  Julie Andrews

  Children, Father, Reading

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Bernard's [Leach] drawings delineated every little accent on the pot, every subtle curve and change of angle and proportion and all.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Drawing, Littles, Pot

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• The people who are behind the curve of the Catholic future are the institutional-maintenance types.

  George Weigel

  People, Catholic, Maintenance

  Source: eppc.org

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• I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.

  Ted Lyons

  Vocabulary, Law, Littles

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• Oh, my goodness, when you're a mother and you just give birth to a child with spina bifida and -- or Down's Syndrome or cerebral palsy, there's a bit of a shock you're going to have to go through, a bit of an adjustment curve.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Mother, Children, Giving

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. August 3, 2004.

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• Let the dry eyes perceive
  Others betray the lamenting lies of their losses
  By the curve of the nude mouth or the laugh up the sleeve.

  Dylan Thomas

  Lying, Eye, Loss

  Dylan Thomas (2003). “Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952”, p.90, New Directions Publishing

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• There are two types of producing deals, and I've had both. I've produced over 20 movies now. You are either watching in horror, as the cars take the curve in the grand prix, or you're enjoying it.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Two, Car, Horror

  Source: collider.com

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• I have a theory in life that there is no learning. There is no learning curve. Everything is tabula rasa. Everybody has to discover things for themselves.

  Seymour Hersh

  Tabula Rasa, Theory, Learning Curve

  Source: www.learntoquestion.com

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• I have a personal Twitter for band purposes, but I don't use social media a lot. I fall in a weird age gap. I was on band message boards when I was 16, but I was on the early curve of Facebook. I did it for work when I worked in media, and I did it for the band, but I can't relate to the idea that you live your life online.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Fall, Media, Ideas

  "Eyes Wide Open". Interview with Corin Tucker, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2015.

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• On our first tour we just went full on, drinking too much and smoking too much before the shows. But it's a learning curve. We now know our limits.

  Dave McPherson

  Drinking, Smoking, Too Much

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• National security is a place where the private sector could be helpful because the government is woefully behind the technology curve. But secondly, the bureaucratic processes that have been in place since 9/11 are woefully inadequate as well.

  Carly Fiorina

  Technology, Government, Helpful

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Life is graded on the curve. It's not how big you are, how strong you are, how smart you are. It's how good you are at the things that count relative to the people around you.

  Robert H. Frank

  Strong, Smart, People

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• Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional?

  Prince Charles

  Design, Feelings, Arches

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• I wrote the book based on a blog that I keep. I also tweet. I don't think that for an incredibly old fart I'm totally behind the power curve. I really believe that the essentials of human relationships remain the same.

  Tom Peters

  Book, Believe, Thinking

  Source: iveybusinessjournal.com

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• Alas the Master; so he sinks in death. But whoso knows the mystery of man Sees life and death as curves of the same plan

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Life And Death, Mystery

  Aleister Crowley, “Thanatos Basileos”

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• He's looking at me as if the whole world waits for my next breath, with an intensity that makes my heart pound and my palms sweat and then he smiles, a sweet curve of his mouth, and my breath catches, but then I freeze because there is something about it, something beyond it that I know, that makes my mind go blank with fear and pain.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Sweet, Pain, Heart

  Elizabeth Scott (2011). “As I Wake”, p.42, Penguin

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• Arya.' He looked down the silvery river and then back at Arya, and he gripped the hilt of Brisingr. He was so full of emotion, he trembled. He did not want to leave, but he knew he must. 'Stay with me-' Her gaze darted up. 'I cannot.' '...stay with me until the first curve in the river.' She hesitated, then nodded.

  Christopher Paolini

  Rivers, Want, Firsts

  Christopher Paolini (2011). “Inheritance: Book Four”, p.868, Random House

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• The road climbed into the mountains, Jonah taking the hairpin curves as fast as he dared. "You look so macho clutching the door handle that way," he said to Hamilton. "Just...be...careful," Hamilton said through clenched teeth.

  Judy Blundell

  Doors, Mountain, Teeth

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• Mi Corazon. Mi alma. Son tuyos." My heart. My soul. They are yours, he whispered against the generous curve of her breast as a million sensations, all of them hot, all of them rich, all of them straddling the razor-sharp edge of pain, ripped through his loins like a flash fire and stripped him of everything but consciousness. "Tuyo. Todo que tengo es tuyo." Yours. Everything I have is yours.

  Cindy Gerard

  Pain, Heart, Son

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• Axiom: you are a sea. Your eye- lids curve over chaos My hands where they touch you, create small inhabited islands soon you will be all earth: a known land, a country.

  Margaret Atwood

  Country, Eye, Islands

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “Selected Poems, 1965-1975”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.

  Thomas Hardy

  Eye, Years, Mouths

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics)”, p.14, Diversion Books

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