Smooth Quotes

• One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth, the good and the bad-but yours, shaped by your own choices, and not someone else's.

  

  Michael Ignatieff
  • Choices
  • Greatest
  • Conviction

• But life has no smooth roads for any of us. And in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness only stimulates the climber to sturdier and steadier steps, till that other legend of the rough places fulfils itself at last; "per aspera ad astra;" over steep ways to the stars.

  

  William Croswell Doane
  • Life
  • Motivational
  • Aim

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

  

  Norman McLaren
  • Sound
  • Harder
  • Smooth

• Love fattens on smooth words.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Love
  • Words
  • Smooth

• A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Men
  • Gun
  • Sin

• I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Reading
  • Block
  • Smooth

• The image-managers encourage the individual to fashion himself into a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.

  

  John Gardner
  • Business
  • Fashion
  • Individual

• I think music for me, it's part of my life. I like music. I think I'm very emotional, so, you know, I just try to take all the emotion, you know, that music bring it to me, you know, some make - I mean, help me to calm down some, for sure motivate me more. You know, there's always music. I think just make me smooth before the match, you know.

  

  Gael Monfils
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Emotional

• And there's a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind, Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay And smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind: I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Youth

• It's not always going to be smooth sailing or everyone will do it. If you have something people want, it should be the perfect recipe for success.

  

  Cameron Johnson
  • Want
  • Perfect
  • Should

• I just personally really enjoy having a clean body. I shower twice a day. I just like feeling clean and feeling smooth.

  

  Ryan Sheckler
  • Feelings
  • Body
  • Enjoy

• Andy Wiliams' smooth voice and casual style turned the songs he sang into timeless classics and made him one of America's top pop singers. ... The entertainment industry has lost a giant piece of its living history today, but Williams' legacy will forever be enshrined in the annals of music and television.

  

  Neil Portnow
  • Today
  • Song
  • Style

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

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Smooth
  • Planes

• I look at a stream and I see myself: a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacles until they become smooth and, one day, disappear - flowing from an origin that has been forgotten toward an end that will never be.

  

  Miriam Makeba
  • Obstacles
  • Forgotten
  • Disappear

• I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Writing
  • Hard
  • Clear

• No one's life is a smooth sail; we all come into stormy weather. But it's this adversity - and more specifically our resilience - that makes us strong and successful.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Strong
  • Successful
  • Adversity

• I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Enemy
  • Dancing
  • Dancer

• If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is what research does; it smooths out contradictions and makes things simple, logical, and coherent.

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Simple

• I stood beside a hill Smooth with new-laid snow, A single star looked out From the cold evening glow. There was not other creature That saw what I could see, I stood and watched the evening star As long as it watched me.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Long
  • Cold
  • Snow

• One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls to first and one to second. I was so smooth I picked off both runners and fanned the batter without that ump or the other team even knowing it.

  

  Satchel Paige
  • Team
  • Firsts
  • Knowing

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