Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bob Melvin

(Dustin) threw reasonably well, but his curve wasn't as good as it could be at times.

Fed tightening is being transmitted throughout the yield curve to other rates, so we're really just starting to see the result of a year and a half of Fed tightening.

Ferry looked like a different team tonight. Tonight they were able to hit the curve and the seemed focused and ready to play. They played well and deserved to win the way they did.

What the curve is telling us is that a March increase is a foregone conclusion.

To the extent that a Phillips curve exists, it's a moveable feast.

Vicky is our only freshman, (therefore) her learning curve is going to be a little higher than most,

William Stafford

At noon in the desert a panting lizardwaited for history, its elbows tense,watching the curve of a particular roadas if something might happen.

William Stafford

At noon in the desert a panting lizard waited for history, its elbows tense, watching the curve of a particular road as if something might happen.

There was a huge learning curve there. He still performed very well and was a huge factor for us.

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.

Niels Bohr

All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.

Sebastian Horsley

A woman is supposed to have curves like an old Bentley, not like some old bike.

Seth Godin

Every activity worth doing has a learning curve.

Mae West

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

Mark Twain

Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the reason that little, seductive, mysterious roads are always branching out from it on either hand, and as these curve sharply also and hide what is beyond, you cannot resist the temptation to desert your own chosen path and explore them.

Mason Cooley

Magic lives in curves, not angles.

Noel Fisher

The technical aspects of doing motion capture and actually, you know, capturing the motion, is very different. It's an interesting learning curve to be part of because you have so much gear on you.

Kimi Raikkonen

In rallying every curve, every hill may be different than you thought. That makes it interesting.

Pablo Picasso

The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an intereffect between the lines in a painting: one line attracts the other and at the point of maximum attraction the lines curve in toward the attracting point and form is altered.

Oscar Wilde

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

P. G. Wodehouse

She had more curves than a scenic railway

Casey Affleck

If you look at the paths of other actors, most people have a curve where you hit it and there's a time where you make a lot of money and they let you make your movies, and then they take it away and it's gone.

If you leave pitches up to a good team like this, they're gonna make you pay. The first home run I gave up, I hung a curve ball, so Danny Payne got a hold of that one.

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.

Greg Chappell

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