Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Niemeyer

What attracts me are free and sensual curves. The curves we find in mountains, in the waves of the sea, in the body of the woman we love.

Kid Cudi

Ive always been ahead of the curve when it came to trying new stuff in the underground scene.

Germaine Greer

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Kurt Sutter

Me personally, I'm a guy who it took a long time to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing. I relate to a lot of that finding oneself a little later in the game, or being thrown a curve later in the game.

Odette Annable

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