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Letter "C" » curve
«I don't recall your name but you sure were a sucker for a high inside curve.»
«I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the ''human figure divine'' but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.»
Author: Edward Weston
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Keywords:
chaste,
consummation,
convulsion,
convulsions,
curve,
enamel,
enameled,
finely,
glossy,
human culture,
photographing,
progressing,
receptacle,
receptacles,
sensuous,
swelling,
Their culture,
toilet
«I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.»
«Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.»
Author: Jim Murray
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Writer)
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About:
Baseball
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Keywords:
anywhere,
ball game,
Ball games,
baseball game,
curve,
curved,
curve ball,
curving,
legal,
On The Ball,
optical,
optical illusion,
pitch,
pitches,
pitch in,
pitch into,
screwball,
screwballs,
spat,
spit,
spits,
spitted,
spitting,
spit out,
stealing,
umpire,
umpired,
Umpiring
«Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.»
«Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.»
«A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.»
«Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
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Essayist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
bunch,
curve,
drag,
drag in,
fade,
flows,
pointless,
ruin,
The Natural,
violets
«It is as if there were a natural law which ordained that to achieve this end, to refine the curve of a piece of furniture, or a ship's keel, or the fuselage of an airplane, until gradually it partakes of the elemental purity of the curve of the human»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(
Author,
Pilot,
Writer)
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Keywords:
Airplanes,
curve,
elemental,
furniture,
fuselage,
gradually,
keel,
keel over,
natural law,
ordain,
ordained,
ordains,
partaken,
partakes,
partake in,
partaking,
piece of furniture,
purity,
refine,
refining
«Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Humorist,
Physician,
Poet,
Professor,
Writer)
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Keywords:
arc,
arcs,
circles,
curve,
determine,
minded,
move in,
Small circle