Curves Quotes - Page 18

• He felt warm and familiar. He felt solid and safe. I wanted to cling to his shirt, bury my face into the warm curve of his neck, and never let go.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Letting Go, Safe, Faces

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2010). “Crescendo”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Perfect, Together, Sculpture

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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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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• I got the total package, you know, the curves, the rhythm, and the voice. I'm just the best.

  Miley Cyrus

  Voice, Dissing, Rhythm

  "How ‘Wrecking Ball’ Escaped Beyonce To Become Miley Cyrus’ Career-Defining Hit" by Ryan Perry, uproxx.com. December 21, 2016.

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• All of a sudden I feel more womanly, I feel like I got a figure. I was always really straight up and down, the skinny one in the middle, like that poster at Elaine's of the Supremes at Lincoln Center - it was done by Joe Eula. To me that's really a reflection of the way I was. I was just like a bean pole. Now I'm getting a few curves and I like it.

  Diana Ross

  Reflection, Lincoln Center, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Mathematics directs the flow of the universe, lurks behind its shapes and curves, holds the reins of everything from tiny atoms to the biggest stars.

  Edward Frenkel

  Stars, Atoms, Shapes

  Edward Frenkel (2014). “Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality”, p.5, Basic Books

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• What attracts me are free and sensual curves. The curves we find in mountains, in the waves of the sea, in the body of the woman we love.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Sea, Sensual, Mountain

  "Oscar Niemeyer, architect of Brazil's capital, dies aged 104" by Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2012.

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• It isn't fair that there's pressure exerted on those who choose to live on the edges of the bell-shaped curve of normal.

  Laurel Lea

  Bells, Pressure, Normal

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• We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.

  Dan Pallotta

  Powerful, Fundraising, Upset

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• Between highway sounds I heard waves and thought how the curve of the coastline here had sheltered and nurtured live-born sharks, humans, and migrating whales. Here, at the edge of the continent, time and distance stopped; in the lull between sets of waves I could get a fresh start.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Distance, Ocean, Sharks

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• Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.

  Audre Lorde

  America, Black, Ancient

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• I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.

  Audre Lorde

  Change, Shifting, Cusp

  Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: And Other Essays”, p.120, Courier Dover Publications

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• The real key to wealth is the gradual accumulation, it's something Jesus talked about I call the law of use and you couple with the exponential curve.

  Pat Robertson

  Jesus, Couple, Real

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Old people who live too long come to resemble turtles. As though time turned in a curve, and down they go to the reptiles again. Not the little wet naked frog they were born. But the tortoise. Cold eyes, sagging circles of skin, the nose becomes beak. The shell of sleep.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Sleep, Eye, Turtles

  Josephine Winslow Johnson (1996). “The Inland Island”, Writer's Digest Books

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• What's so kind of beautiful about the whole thing was that everything that made me not right for all of those hundreds of commercial auditions that I went on and no one ever wanted me for is what made me perfectly right for 'Real Women Have Curves'.

  America Ferrera

  Beautiful, Real, Auditions

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• I want to look my best, but I'm not a model. I'm not an actress. I'm representing normal girls. It's OK to have a little bit of curve. I'm happy with my body. So many girls come up to me and say, "Thank you for being normal," and I'm proud of that.

  Miranda Lambert

  Girl, Looks, Body

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.

  Alan Kay

  Desire, Easy, Results

  "An Interview with Computing Pioneer Alan Kay". Interview with David Greelish, techland.time.com. April 2, 2013.

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• I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

  H. R. Giger

  Art, Lines, Elegance

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• I love the round, the curves, the undulation, the world is round, the world is a breast

  Niki de Saint Phalle

  World, Breasts, Rounds

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• A hat is a shameless flatterer, calling attention to an escaping curl, a tawny braid, a sprinkling of freckles over a pert nose, directing the eye to what is most unique about a face. Its curves emphasize a shining pair of eyes, a lofty forehead; its deep brim accentuates the pale tint of a cheek, creates an aura of prettiness, suggests a mystery that awakens curiosity in the onlooker.

  Jeanine Larmoth

  Eye, Unique, Escaping

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