2.
Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?
Dashiell Hammett
3.
I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.
Henry Rollins
4.
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
5.
It is better, I think, to begin easily and get your running to be smooth and relaxed and then to go faster and faster.
Henry Rono
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Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.
Louis Menand
8.
Son, if the mountain were smooth, you couldn't climb it.
Wintley Phipps
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I function better when things are going badly than when they're as smooth as whipped cream.
Walt Disney
10.
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
11.
Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.
Pearl S. Buck
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O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round,
I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground,
Where thou may'st warble,
eat and dwell.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Nobody’s journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It’s just life’s way of saying, ‘Time to change course.’
Oprah Winfrey
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It is not only important how long your breath is. What is more important is how smooth and subtle it is. For length of breath without the accompanying subtlety is fruitless.
T. K. V. Desikachar
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Time may smooth the stone, but time will never wear it away.
Erin Hunter
17.
Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
Lord Byron
18.
Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.
Bruce Sterling
19.
It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.
Warren Buffett
20.
I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.
Eminem
21.
The thorny point
Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show
Of smooth civility; yet am I inland bred
And know some nurture.
William Shakespeare
22.
May God deliver us from the easygoing, smooth, comfortable Christianity that never lets the truth get hold of us.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.
Raymond Chandler
24.
We say that the words were smooth, caressing, hard, sharp, and so on: all words that refer to body touching. Indeed we can kill or elate with words as body experiences.
Humberto Maturana
25.
True friendship is like the asphalt of life. It fills in the potholes and makes the journey smooth.
Richard G. Scott
26.
His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.
Hippolyte Taine
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It hasn't been a totally smooth road, but in the whole span of things I feel like a very lucky person.
Edward Furlong
28.
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
Vikram Seth
29.
Victor Oladipo is like a baby’s bottom – smooth and sometimes explosive.
Clark Kellogg
30.
Not that the path was smooth and pothole free. But still, it was my path, and like me, it was bound to be unique." -Zoey
P. C. Cast
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Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.
Lynn Austin
34.
Again, a smooth answer, signifying nothing.
Euripides
35.
The task of the prophet is not to smooth things over but to make things right.
Eugene H. Peterson
36.
What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, and how in the course of its striation it develops other forces and emits new smooth spaces.
Gilles Deleuze
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There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them, just to make the music more of a sanctuary.
Daniel Johns
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And one of my favorites was Eddy Arnold of course. He just had that smooth, soulful voice.
Little Milton
41.
I had an agenda. It was a very smooth transition.
Frank Press
42.
It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.
Jane Porter
43.
It is hard to look back and talk about a set of disjointed experiences as though they were part of one smooth progression.
Steve Guttenberg
46.
Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.
Horace
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and when he moved it was like watching oil spread across a lake, smooth and fluid, almost vicious
Madeline Miller
48.
Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.
Norman McLaren
49.
Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and chaotic and desperately secretive underneath, but not noticeably so, never noticeably so.
Caroline Knapp
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Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.
Ann Hood