Curves Quotes - Page 5

• Truth is on a curve whose asymptote our spirit follows eternally.

  Leo Errera

  Truth, Spirit, Truth Is

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• In philosophical inquiry, the human spirit, imitating the movement of the stars, must follow a curve which brings it back to its point of departure. To conclude is to close a circle.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Stars, Philosophical, Thinking

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• As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Distance, Two, Goal

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• Every discussion in a meeting has a diminishing curve of interest. The longer the discussion goes on, the fewer people will be interested in it.

  Mark McCormack

  People, Goes On, Interest

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• The sound of the sea, the curve of a horizon, wind in leaves, the cry of a bird leave manifold impression in us. And suddenly, without our wishing it at all, one of these memories spills from us and finds expression in musical language...I want to sing my interior landscape with the simple artlessness of a child.

  Claude Debussy

  Children, Memories, Simple

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• Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.

  Martin Amis

  Careers, Novelists, Usual

  Martin Amis (2001). “The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000”, Vintage

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• There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.

  Garth Brooks

  Book, Differences, Knowing

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• A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.

  Christian Louboutin

  Heart, Character, People

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• Ah, bien je prétends que les courbes des quatre areêtes du monument, telles que le calcul les a fournies, donneront une grand impression de force et de beauté.
  Well, I think the curves of the four pillars of the monument, as the calculations have provided them, give it a great sense of force and beauty.

  Gustave Eiffel

  Thinking, Engineering, Giving

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• 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.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Nature, Fall, Swans

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• You have to make a bet one way or another. We believe that overall demand is going to continue to grow, and its absolutely being fueled by the Internet. If anything, we're just building a little bit ahead of the curve. There's clearly a curve toward growth, and the question is 'How do you intercept that?' We've decided to intercept it as aggressively as possible.

  Paul Otellini

  Believe, Growth, Demand

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• See I’m not a monster, I’m just ahead of the curve.

  Heath Ledger

  Dark, Knights, Monsters

  "Fictional character: The Joker". "The Dark Knight", 2008.

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• The fundamental idea of these pylons, or great archways, is based on a method of construction peculiar to me, of which the principle consists in giving to the edges of the pyramid a curve of such a nature that this pyramid shall be capable of resisting the force of the wind without necessitating the junction of the edges by diagonals as is usually done.

  Gustave Eiffel

  Science, Wind, Ideas

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• Now don't laugh 'cause I just might be...the soft curve in your hardline. (from the song "Hardliners" by Holcombe Waller)

  Tammara Webber

  Song, Laughing, Might

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• ... sometimes I can feel it, the way we are pouring slowly toward a curve and around it through something dark and soft, and we are bound to each other.

  Sharon Olds

  Dark, Pouring, Way

  Sharon Olds, “The Sash”

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• His eyes were frighteningly alive, the curve of his mouth savage and pleased. It suddenly didn't seem at all surprising that he should be able to pull things from his dreams. In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Love, Dream, Eye

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.15, Scholastic Inc.

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• I just read about a schoolteacher who got hurt. She was grading papers on a curve!

  Milton Berle

  Hurt, Teaching, Assessment

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• Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of a hard science. It's not just putting on sandals and trekking out to take notes on some tribe.

  Michael Kinsley

  Numbers, Tribes, Economics

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• The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what has been happening within the 'middle classes' - that is, to that ten to fifteen percent of the population of the world-economy who consumed more surplus than they themselves produced. Within this sector there really has been a relatively dramatic flattening of the curve between the very top (less than one percent of the total population) and the truly 'middle' segments, or cadres (the rest of the ten to fifteen percent).

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Class, Historical, Population

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• The curve of life is like the parabola of a projectile which, disturbed from its initial state of rest, rises and then returns to a state of repose... Like a projectile flying to its goal, life ends in death. Even its ascent and its zenith are only steps and means to this goal... For, enlightenment or no enlightenment, consciousness or no consciousness, nature prepares itself for death.

  Carl Jung

  Death, Mean, Goal

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• I have had fun running all of the Virgin businesses, so I never see a setback as a bad experience; it is just a learning curve.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Fun, Business

  "Richard Branson: Five Questions On Business Philosophy" by Richard Branson, www.nbcnews.com. October 23, 2010.

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• I was writing "Diamonds and Rust' and it had nothing to do with what it turned out to be. I don't remember what it is, but I think I was writing a song. It was literally interrupted by a phone call, and it just took another curve and it came out to be what it was.

  Joan Baez

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• Before, it was just about making the films - and now it's releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve.

  Jessica Chastain

  Film, Steep, Learning Curve

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• I feel very strongly that curves are natural, womanly and real. I shall continue to hope that women are able to believe in themselves for who they are inside, and not feel under such incredible pressure to be unnaturally thin.

  Kate Winslet

  Real, Believe, Able

  "Grazia pays damages to Winslet" by Ben Dowell, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2007.

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• But Anne, do you love him?" I asked curiously. The curve of her hood hid all but the corner of her smile. "I am a fool to own it, but I am in a fever for his touch.

  Philippa Gregory

  Fever, Fool, Her Smile

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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