Smooth Quotes

Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.

The course of true anything never does run smooth.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

People looking up at her--at her smooth pretty vivacious face--had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind.

Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.

We do not go to the green woods and crystal waters to rough it, we go to smooth it. We get it rough enough at home, in towns and cities.

As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel.

You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it.

Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.

As slippery as smooth grapes, words exploding in the light like dormant seeds waiting in the vaults of vocabulary, alive again, and giving life: once again the heart distills them.

I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.

He did look like the Monopoly man, but it was smooth. I thought he was going to pull a monocle out. That would have been awesome. And did you see the pocket watch? That was incredible.

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.

Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!

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

Again, a smooth answer, signifying nothing.

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!

My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry.

I sit back on my bed cross-legged and find myself rubbing the smooth iridescent surface of the pearl back and forth against my lips. For some reason, it’s soothing. A cool kiss

My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive.

Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.

I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.

What a good thing there is no marriage or giving in marriage in the after-life; it will certainly help to smooth things out.

It's not always going to be smooth sailing or everyone will do it. If you have something people want, it should be the perfect recipe for success.

Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me. -Eric

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

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth

It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.

Politeness smooths wrinkles.

But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it.

To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees, I grew up as a part of his garden.

The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright-- And this was odd, because it was The middle of the night.

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

His bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The Western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel.

[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going.

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

If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

Humans will never be hampered as smooth bag. They just dragged and dropped upon his head and empty heart

Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.

The smooth stones you pick up and examine under the moon's light have been made blue from the sea. Next morning when you pull them from your trouser pocket, they are still blue.

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with.

Sense how Even the smooth stones ache With stories of their own In the shuddering light of day.

It is hard to look back and talk about a set of disjointed experiences as though they were part of one smooth progression.

I laid my face to the smooth face of the marble and howled my loss into the cold salt rain.

A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.

Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts?

The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger.