Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Toomer

If you have heard a Jewish cantor sing, if he has touched you and made your own sorrow seem trivial when compared with his, you will know my feeling when I follow the curves of her profile, like mobile rivers, to their common delta.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.

Eva Zeisel

Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.

Ezekiel Emanuel

When implemented, the Complete Lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated… The Complete Lives system justifies preference to younger people because of priority to the worst-off rather than instrumental value.

Gretel Ehrlich

There was not one cause for our internment, but many - a deep-seated racial prejudice working on top of fear, distrust, and greed. So how is one to say exactly where history begins or ends? It is all slow oscillations, curves, and waves which take so long to reveal themselves ... like watching a tree grow.

Ian Bremmer

The developed world should neither shelter nor militarily destabilize authoritarian regimes unless those regimes represent an imminent threat to the national security of other states. Developed states should instead work to create the conditions most favorable for a closed regime's safe passage through the least stable segment of the J curve however and whenever the slide toward instability comes. And developed states should minimize the risk these states pose the rest of the world as their transition toward modernity begins.

Douglas Coupland

I've had maybe 20 jobs, big and small, and I've never hated any of them. At the same time, the moment the learning curve flattened, I was out of there.

Erin Heatherton

It's important to be fit, but you shouldn't get too skinny. You need to have curves.

Greg Chappell

It will be a learning curve for him. I know the first few games are very important,

It is so similar to Microsoft Office that the learning curve (for the librarians) was short. If they can use Microsoft Office, they can use OpenOffice.

It's a real hazard, because it curves a lot and because of the speed it makes it a real big hazard because they slide and fish-tail and everything.

It's just tricky. It's an extremely technical track and extremely fast down there at the bottom. If you get something wrong in a curve, it's just the way the curve sends you. You get shot up to the roof.

Chris Turner

It's been foreigners looking for yield that has driven the U.S. curve to flatten. The market will interpret this inversion as more circumspect than previous ones.

It makes a lot of sense when you look at the depreciation curve on a typical new car. Most of the depreciation takes place in the first two years, so someone else takes the hit,

It's going to be a quick learning curve getting to know all the guys,

It's been a learning curve for all of us.

Bill Gross

At some point down the road, in a dynamic economy such as the U.S., we should be returning to a more normal shape. That means ultimately short rates and the front end of the curve will trade at lower yields than long rates.

A win is a win. We'll take it. But we're not going to take it without learning anything from it. The learning curve has to got to be there.

It's only a learning curve for a lot of them as this is their first trip.

It's the natural growth curve of the industry. It took a while for it to gain traction, then we saw several years of explosive growth, and now it will slow down.

Carmen Miranda

Look at me and tell me if I dont have Brazil in every curve of my body.

Tyler Johnson

I felt really good. I was throwing my change-up for strikes and my fastball where I wanted to. My slider felt good, but my curve ball needed a little polishing up.

Isaac Asimov

Speech as known to us was unnecessary. A fragment of a sentence amounted almost to a long-winded redundancy. A gesture, a grunt, the curve of a facial line--even a significantly timed pause yielded informational juice.

He's young, and he's on a curve so steep.

Jordin Sparks

I love food and I love my curves.

The last three or four weeks he's really starting to turn it around...you've got a little learning curve what it means to be a captain.

The long end of the curve is very cheap. We are maintaining our long duration position in Treasuries.

The learning curve is going to be fast.

Ellen DeGeneres

You just have to keep driving down the road. It's going to bend and curve and you'll speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

And as a woman on television, I actually feel like you're more representative of women if you're - if you've got curves and if everything isn't super tight.

Holly Madison

I'd rather be overweight and curvy than super thin with no curves. I'm proud of my body.

Odette Annable

I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!

Mason Cooley

Magic lives in curves, not angles.