Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jessica Ennis

I learned what I need to do in the long jump, what I needed to do in the javelin and I've been able to rectify those events. It's been a bit of a learning curve, which is good.

Jessica Chastain

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

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.

Erin Heatherton

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

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.

Christina Aguilera

I like my body when I have curves. We all come indifferent shapes and sizes, and this is something to celebrate.

Christian Dior

I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.

Germaine Greer

The most highly prized curve of all is that of the bosom ...

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.

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.

Ben Bernanke

There's no magical relationship between inverted yield curves and recession. There's a debate why long-term rates are so low. It's partly a low term premium and a lot of saving looking for a relatively limited number of investments.

Carmen Miranda

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

Kim Stanley Robinson

Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.

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.

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.

Justin Verlander

I'm a power guy. Good fastball. A knuckle curve, which I can throw for strikes. A changeup which sinks down and away from lefties and I can also throw for strikes.

Martin Amis

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

Philippa Gregory

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.

Prince Charles

Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional?

Ellen Hopkins

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

Pierre Trudeau

My life is one long curve, full of turning points.

John Mayer

I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.

Laurel Lea

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.

Lacey Schwimmer

I like having curves - I'm proud of them!

Juan Marichal

I have five pitches. Fast ball, change, curve, slider, screwball. I don't know any hitters. Catcher, he tells me what to do. I can get any pitch I want over the plate.

P. G. Wodehouse

She had more curves than a scenic railway

Marisa Miller

I always felt, even before I got pregnant, that it's better to accentuate your curves. A lot of women try to tuck their butt in or kind of slouch because they're trying to hide. Obviously, you can't suck it in, but it's important to really show off the belly.

Marisa Miller

I like to have curves and feel like a woman. I hope that people see that in my photos and know that healthy is better than skinny.

Mark McCormack

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.

Mae West

Women are like roads. The more curves they have, the more dangerous they are.