Best 44 quotes in «smooth quotes» category

You are quite possibly the least smooth guy I know,” she mumbled. “You can’t even put your arm around me without tripping up.

When somebody’s too smooth like he is, then somebody else is going to get the rough of it I always say.

We are the road that winds down a sound mind, then slips into the sea.

you clutter my mind thoughts of you, thoughts of me with you thoughts that keep me from rest that ull me to sleep at night your words are like butter they're smooth and they're rich and they make the bitter bits better

Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy.

And one of my favorites was Eddy Arnold of course. He just had that smooth, soulful voice.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle grateful that they are not worse rather than the rough handle, bitter that they are not better.

and when he moved it was like watching oil spread across a lake, smooth and fluid, almost vicious

Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle!

Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.

Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.

I had an agenda. It was a very smooth transition.

Here's what I'm wondering: if, digitally, you can remove red-eye, smooth over wrinkles, make people look thinner, then why don't we have the technology to make me sing better?

I function better when things are going badly than when they're as smooth as whipped cream.

His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.

I thought we were gonna get "Smooth Operator." That song was big in the '90s.

Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly.

Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?

O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, Where thou may'st warble, eat and dwell.

My point is, no one can stop the Internet. No one can stop that march. It doesn't mean that it's going to be smooth, though.

Silk didn't care if it slid over scars or smooth, untouched skin. I'd earned my right to be paranoid.

Politeness smooths wrinkles.

She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof.

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

only to people!' shouted Rincewind. He drew his sword and, with a smooth overarm throw, completely failed to hit the troll.

Smooth white skin invites something that will leave a trace, a kiss or a slap.

Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.

Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.

Small jerks began to appear in my legs, my walk became unsteady precisely because I wanted it to be smooth.

That's why my ires always come comedic in a way because - can I just say something? See, I sound like such a smooth talker.

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.

There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety.

The road less traveled will not be smooth

The task of the prophet is not to smooth things over but to make things right.

We say that the words were smooth, caressing, hard, sharp, and so on: all words that refer to body touching. Indeed we can kill or elate with words as body experiences.

What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth?

And so everything is new and brave, red poppies and good food, cigarettes and summer breeze.

Below there are cyclists, lorries, men; it is a grey street and a grey subway;—it affects me as though it were my mother.

She beckoned for him to come closer and he did. He crawled onto the bed from the bottom and worked his way up to her legs. His hands caressed the smoothness of her recently shaven legs. She moaned at his touch. He hovered over her and she pulled him closer. Their lips met, once more, and, somehow, it was even better than before.

For example. But I cannot give you an example. It was not so much any one example, any one event, which I recollected which was important, but the flow, the texture of the events, for meaning is never in the event but in the motion through event. Otherwise we could isolate an instant in the event and say that this is the event itself. The meaning. But we cannot do that. For it is the motion which is important. And I was moving. I was moving West at seventy-five miles an hour, through a blur of million-dollar landscape and heroic history, and I was moving back through time into my memory. They say the drowning man re-lives his life as he drowns. Well, I was not drowning in water, but I was drowning in West. I drowned westward through the hot brass days and black velvet nights. It took me seventy-eight hours to drown. For my body to sink down to the very bottom of West and lie in the motionless ooze of History, naked on a hotel bed in Long Beach, California.

How the story is read is very important is it soft, is it in dry way or smooth...

If you drive fast enough on a rough road you glide over the bumps and skim the pot holes - it's a smooth ride. If you charge without fear over boulders and beach debris it's the same as running on hard flat sand. The only problem is slowing down, or stopping.

I was recently living more comfortably surrounded by secrets... Like dozens of luxurious satiny pillows, they were embracing me from all directions into safe lulling warmth, thus isolating me from the sharp dead-cold edges of the truth hiding behind their endearingly smooth textures and tender soothing colours. Secrets could be so irresistibly beautiful...

Slow is smooth; smooth is fast.