Smooth Quotes

A smooth life is not a victorious life.

Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?

I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.

For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising.

It is better, I think, to begin easily and get your running to be smooth and relaxed and then to go faster and faster.

Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.

When life is real, it's not going to be smooth.

Son, if the mountain were smooth, you couldn't climb it.

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.

I function better when things are going badly than when they're as smooth as whipped cream.

Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.

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.

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.’

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.

Time may smooth the stone, but time will never wear it away.

Love fattens on smooth words.

Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.

Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.

It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.

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.

May God deliver us from the easygoing, smooth, comfortable Christianity that never lets the truth get hold of us.

Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.

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.

True friendship is like the asphalt of life. It fills in the potholes and makes the journey smooth.

Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?

His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.

It hasn't been a totally smooth road, but in the whole span of things I feel like a very lucky person.

Victor Oladipo is like a baby’s bottom – smooth and sometimes explosive.

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

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.

I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.

Again, a smooth answer, signifying nothing.

The task of the prophet is not to smooth things over but to make things right.

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.

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.

And one of my favorites was Eddy Arnold of course. He just had that smooth, soulful voice.

You can't climb a smooth mountain

The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger.

I had an agenda. It was a very smooth transition.

It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.

It is hard to look back and talk about a set of disjointed experiences as though they were part of one smooth progression.

Politeness smooths wrinkles.

A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand.

Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.

and when he moved it was like watching oil spread across a lake, smooth and fluid, almost vicious

Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.

What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth?

Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and chaotic and desperately secretive underneath, but not noticeably so, never noticeably so.