Smooth Quotes

The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare

Love, True, Run

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
Thomas Jefferson

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
Jim Morrison

Death, Makes, Angels

I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.
Eminem

Rough, Detroit, Talker

It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.
Warren Buffett

Through, America, Against

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Washington Irving

Nature, Good, Mind

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good, Calm, Temper

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
Barbara Walters

Success, Nice, Two

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
H. P. Lovecraft

Black, Silent, Ocean

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

Life, Through, Pass

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.
Hesiod

Long, Put, Road

Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
Doug Coupland

Life, Time, Bad

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
John Dryden

Beauty, Cannot, Betray

In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
Joe Biden

Become, Emotion, Style

I'm not that smooth.
Shia LaBeouf

The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.
Rupert Brooke

Cool, Away, Kiss

After shows my face feels dirty with makeup and sweat, especially in the smaller venues, so it feels good to get back to the bus and smooth it away. Sometimes you need something alcohol-based, especially on tour when you don't always get a chance to keep washing your face all the time.
Ellie Goulding

Time, Good, After

I now know my right from my left and my up from my down. Unluckily, my terrible sense of direction remains. For me, to live in New York City is to never be able to meet someone on the northeast corner. It is to never ever make a smooth entrance, always to get caught looking lost on the street.
Sloane Crosley

Live, Someone, Lost

A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.
Benoit Mandelbrot

Made, Clouds, Cloud

I use the Clarisonic electronic skin cleansing system. It's great for removing excess oil and make-up and leaves my face feeling really smooth and clean. Then I apply Avon Anew Rejuvenate Day Revitalising Cream and Creme de la Mer Eye Concentrate. I think eye cream is so important - it keeps me looking young and prevents wrinkles.
Fergie

Great, Important, Feeling

It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up.
Neil Peart

Good, Play, Team

Dinner 'conversation' at the Cohens' meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day's events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head.
Andy Cohen

Mom, Father, While

Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.
Paul Thomas Anderson

Forward, Move, Bit

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.
Peter O'Toole

Common, Monotony, Stir

The last thing I want to become is one of those talking heads where everything is satiny smooth and you know what the next question is going to be.
Isaac Mizrahi

Everything, Become, Last

We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building.
Orville Wright

Feet, Building, Ground

Some exfoliates have rocks in them and it makes your skin really smooth, and cat litter is a good substitute. I haven't broke out at all yet!
Nicole Polizzi

Good, Makes, Skin

There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them, just to make the music more of a sanctuary.
Daniel Johns

Music, Hell, Sabotage

The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Nothing, Away, Far

Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where the economy is depressed because of lack of demand.
Ben Bernanke

Try, Cannot, Growth

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