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Quotes About Curves

Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys.
~ Rick Moranis
rattly bridge where the road curves by the old
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
I'm not sure if you realize that mathematics isn't linear. It's a curve. And in the brightest, most nimble minds, it arcs around to meet philosophy, music, art." She laced her fingers together. "They're intertwined. If you listen to Bach, it's as much a work of math as music.
~ Louise Penny
Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional?
~ Prince Charles
The spiral shell. Always another curve out of sight.
~ Madeline Miller
Curves are so emotional.
~ Piet Mondrian
the sea was hidden by the house's curve, but we could both hear it, the distant hiss of waves against sand.
~ Madeline Miller
Curve: The loveliest distance between two points.
~ Mae West
You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.
~ Mae West
I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
~ Mae West
A woman's beauty lies, not in any exaggeration of the specialized zones, nor in any general harmony that could be worked out by means of the sectio aurea or a similar aesthetic superstition; but in the arabesque of the spine. The curve by which the back modulates into the buttocks. It is here that grace sits and rides a woman's body.
~ John Updike
The shop for fuller figures could be seen through broad, green leaves, its windows full, not of dresses, but fat zeros, pot-bellied legless sixes and bosomy eights, and threes like pregnant, primitive goddesses. In the teashop the chairs were being stood on top of the tables and made a forest of their own, sprouting upwards in fountains of coloured leaves.
~ Margaret Mahy
You there, you look like a well-rounded lady, oh yes, and I mean well-rounded
~ Unknown
Curve: The loveliest distance between two points
~ Mae West
Divide the Kongor lord's house by six. A house that is by a room, with an arch door, and walls of clay and mortar. Now put another room on top of that one, then another, then another, and another, then one more and one more on top of that, with a roof that curves like when the moon cuts herself in half. That was this man's house, a house that looked like just one column was cut off and sent to the Dolingo savannah.
~ Marlon James
Magic lives in curves, not angles.
~ Mason Cooley
She was a big blonde woman with more curves than the highway out front and just the right number of hills and valleys.
~ Max Allan Collins
Olho a estrada de areia que se abre à nossa frente, com mais curva que distância e penso: a vida é a espera do que pode ser vivido." (Diário do caçador [6] - O Reencontro)
~ Mia Couto
Cinch together the whole look with a wide belt" was a very popular style in the early 2000s, which we believed accentuated our curves but in reality made a generation of women look like we were wearing lumbar support braces.
~ Mindy Kaling
Bbw and ssbbw are the juiciest ladies in the world, mouth-watering beauties with sugar skin, the color of fresh pastries.
~ Unknown
Now a small woman, with dangerous curves. I could bite into her.
~ Nalini Singh
As she drove the Trace, each curve revealing a scene rich with life and as picturesque as illustrations from a children's book, Anna was struck again by the beauty of the state. Over her years as a Yankee and a Westerner, she'd heard Mississippi described many ways. Beautiful had never been one of them.
~ Nevada Barr
The king and Osric had vanished, gone ahead around the curve, and Hild walked alone-they all walked alone-along the inwardly spiralling path painted with tales, the characters from songs she had heard in hall all her life, songs of music and magic, of heroes and beginnings.
~ Nicola Griffith
Dimensional Magic We are fractal. Our lungs, our circulatory system, our brains are like trees. They are fractal structures. Fractal geometry allows bounded curves of infinite length, and closed surfaces with an infinite area. It even allows curves with positive volume, and arbitrarily large groups of shapes with exactly the same boundary. This is exactly how our lungs manage to maximize their surface area.
~ Unknown