Top 100 Smoothly Quotes
#1. Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him to speak. 'The reel of silk has run smoothly enough so far; but I always knew there would come a knot and a puzzle: here it is. Now for vexation, and exasperation, and endless trouble!
Charlotte Bronte
#2. I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to need and be with friends and the two things often need to be together ... it's a painful conflict that will never be smoothly resolved.
Morris Graves
#3. The second thing for me, probably a few clicks down, is the idea that The Sims smoothly age and have different concerns and motivations and needs at different age ranges.
Will Wright
#4. I'd like respect, but failing that, a little healthy fear can go a long way to making things run smoothly.
Patrick Rothfuss
#5. I could not help concluding this man had the most supreme pleasure while he was driven so fast and so smoothly by the sea.
James Cook
#6. Welcome to Tippington Fountains Shopping Center!" The doors opened to reveal the shopping mall before them. The store doors sparkled with shiny chrome handles, glass elevators rose smoothly between
Daisy Meadows
#7. We cannot tell that we are constantly splitting into duplicate selves because our consciousness rides smoothly along only one path in the endlessly forking chains
Martin Gardner
#8. Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are standardized and can be easily influenced and anticipated ... what is the outcome? Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow man and from nature.
Erich Fromm
#9. Then centrifugal gravity took over, and with something close to majesty the skeletal spacecraft descended out of the repair bay as smoothly and elegantly as a falling chandelier.
Alastair Reynolds
#10. She lost God so smoothly and painlessly she had to wonder what she'd ever meant by the word.
Zadie Smith
#11. Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions, to be ruthlessly self-critical. Science is a collective enterprise with the error-correction machinery often running smoothly.
Carl Sagan
#12. A witty vicar once said that a good marriage is like a pair of scissors with the couple inseparable joined, often moving in opposite directions, yet always destroying anyone who comes between them. The trick is for the blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other.
Mary Jo Putney
#13. The desire for everything to run smoothly is a false goal - it leads to measuring people by the mistakes they make rather than by their ability to solve problems.
Ed Catmull
#14. What keeps this industry challenging as an actor is that you never know how something will turn out. The ups and downs are constant. You're never just smoothly sailing along. You're always going to be on loose footing. That's what ultimately now I expect and accept and that doesn't scare me as much.
Elisabeth Shue
#15. A new voice pops up on the comm, relayed from the station. March. "What the frag are you doing, Triumph? Who's at the helm? I didn't give clearance for a pleasure cruise."
"Can't talk, Commander," Hit answers smoothly. "We're busy saving your ass.
Ann Aguirre
#16. When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#17. Darwin believed in intellectual progress, but he believed that it would come smoothly and harmoniously and happily and it would eventually cover the whole world.
James Moore
#18. Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
Marquis De Sade
#19. Many women experience a sense of pressure that men rarely do - the pressure to succeed at work and to keep things running smoothly at home, especially when children arrive on the scene.
Tiffany Dufu
#20. Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man.
Thomas Browne
#21. Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.
Ivan Pavlov
#22. I stood my ground. "You evil scientist are all the same
evil. Count me out."
Fang and I brushed past Mr. God and walked quickly but smoothly to the exit. It was barely noon, and I'd already made a huge enemy.
Dang, I'm good.
James Patterson
#23. The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that's what's wrong with them. They're artistic technocrats. There's no dilemma so knotty, no question so baffling, that it can't be smoothly neutralized by dialing up the right attitude adjustment. Poor old Hemingway. If only he'd known.
Walter Kirn
#24. Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
Swami Vivekananda
#25. Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
#26. As he told Marshall, "things went so smoothly that I was a little worried, and remembered Stalin's proverb, 'an amiable bear is more dangerous than a hostile one.
D.K.R. Crosswell
#27. A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.
Vera Nazarian
#28. Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
Jean Rhys
#29. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.
Edward Bernays
#30. I haven't any formal schedule, but I love to write in the morning, before breakfast. Sometimes the writing goes so smoothly that I don't take a break for many hours - and consequently have breakfast at two or three in the afternoon on good days.
Joyce Carol Oates
#31. Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him; but a man must be made of the right kind of stuff who can rise above the things which harass and handicap the weak, and do his work in spite of them. Indeed, this is the test of greatness.
Orison Swett Marden
#32. The thought came creeping, just as the numbness came creeping, stealing over his senses, softly, smoothly, there in the silken silence.
Robert Bloch
#33. I do everything The Miz needs me to do. I make sure everything goes smoothly. If I can get involved in the match when the referee is not looking. You know, we have to keep the title!
Alex Riley
#34. Relationships take work. It isn't true love if things go smoothly.
S.R. Crawford
#35. Amber eyes slid to me. To my crown. Then Rhys's. "An emissary wears a golden crown. Is that a tradition in Prythian?"
"No," Rhysand said smoothly, "but she certainly looks good enough in one that can't resist.
Sarah J. Maas
#36. She liked to watch her father as he read, and to listen to the smoothly rolling tones; she felt no curiosity about what the words meant. It was only Shakespeare and she was used to him.
Stella Gibbons
#37. An organization with excellent internal communication will run smoothly, allowing its members to progress toward a mutual goal, which will ultimately affect the quality of external communication.
Scribendi
#38. Everyone thinks it goes smoothly in everyone else's house, and theirs is the only place that has problems. I'll let you in on a secret about teaching: there is no place in the world where it rolls along smoothly without problems. Only in articles and books can that happen.
Ruth Beechick
#39. I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lecturing, as opposed to the characters lecturing their children or students. Dialogue can humanise the story and make it go down somewhat more smoothly.
Elliot Perlman
#40. My idea of everything going smoothly on an airplane is (a) that I not die in a slow-motion fiery crash or get stabbed to death by terrorists and (b) that none of the other passengers try to talk to me. All conversation should end at the moment the wheels leave the ground.
Anne Lamott
#41. Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
#42. The front door opened smoothly to my key, the air inside stirred as I came in and it didn't feel over-intimate anymore; it felt like a slight smile and a cool brief touch on the cheek, like a welcome.
Tana French
#44. Did you really just ask if I had a boyfriend?" I laughed.
"Apparently not very smoothly." He laughed.
Nichole Chase
#45. You're easily distracted, aren't you?" Ty deadpanned.
"Not really," Zane said smoothly, dragging one hand down Ty's
chest. "I'm still focused on you.
Madeleine Urban
#46. Bankruptcy laws allow companies to smoothly reorganize, but not college graduates burdened by student loans.
Robert Reich
#47. The reel of silk has run smoothly enough so far; but I always knew there would come a knot and a puzzle: here it is.
Charlotte Bronte
#48. Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it's just better form.
Geoffrey Wood
#49. Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.
Brian Tracy
#50. China is a one party state. Sooner or later China will get to the point when the new social classes, which have emerged thanks to economic success, will have to be integrated into the political system. There is no guarantee that this process will run smoothly.
Henry A. Kissinger
#51. But he says things so subtly, so smoothly, that it's hard to tell if it's purposeful or if he's just playing along with my jokes.
Kasie West
#52. Working together in concert more smoothly not only helps us move more quickly; it changes the nature of what we can undertake. When we have the confidence that we can orchestrate the group effort required to realize them, we dare bigger dreams.
Justin Rosenstein
#53. The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.
Maya Angelou
#54. Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out!" he exclaimed. "The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise.
Eugen Herrigel
#55. It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity-where energies flow smoothly in one direction-there will be much doing but no music.
Eric Hoffer
#56. How smoothly one becomes, not a cheat, exactly, not really a liar, just a man who'll say anything for pay.
Sloan Wilson
#57. No," Hal said. "The sea is moving constantly and you have to make little adjustments to keep it going smoothly. You can't take it for granted."
"Just like a friendship," she said smiling. And Hal nodded.
"Maybe that's why the word ends in ship," he said.
John Flanagan
#58. You always imagine everything will go so smoothly in the Olympic season.
Ashley Wagner
#59. How can any man tell all that he knows, Great Lord," the little man said smoothly. "It would be only prattle, until it becomes useful.
Robert Jordan
#60. Before I got divorced, I was personally unfamiliar with trial, or at least trial of serious, heart-wrenching proportions. I figured that life went smoothly if you tried hard, and if you messed up, or things weren't working out, you just tried harder.
Kristin Armstrong
#61. Anyone who has ever sat in a train as it rushes through a dark night will know that sometimes there are long minutes when the coaches slide smoothly along without so much as a shudder.
Selma Lagerlof
#62. The president is an actor, placed in power to smoothly deliver the corporations' lies.
Lauren Groff
#63. All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting; and the less the kind of attention requiring effort is appealed to; the more smoothly and pleasantly the classroom work goes on.
William James
#64. It is like a dream to feel the machine lift you gently up in the air, float smoothly over one spot,
Igor Sikorsky
#65. I was determined to experience the birth, and I am so scared at the thought of having my abdomen cut open. So I was lucky that the birth went very smoothly.
Heidi Klum
#66. A basic cause of murmuring is that too many of us seem to expect that life will flow ever smoothly, featuring an unbroken chain of green lights with empty parking places just in front of our destinations!.
Neal A. Maxwell
#67. Physically it's exhausting to cook every night. Existentially speaking, I have so much more energy having that time to myself in this project, this gift to myself at the end of the day. Even if it didn't go smoothly, it was still a gift.
Julie Powell
#68. He moves smoothly and slowly, carrying his concentration like a brimming cup.
Thomas Harris
#69. Organizational culture is just like the "Operation System" of the organization, you need reboot periodically to keep it running smoothly.
Pearl Zhu
#70. Kamaswami entered, a swiftly, smoothly moving man with very gray hair, with very intelligent, cautious eyes, with a greedy mouth. Politely, the host and the guest greeted one another.
Hermann Hesse
#71. If everything was going smoothly you would never build character.
Maria Sharapova
#72. If everything went smoothly, he might have found himself a donor. *
K.A. Merikan
#73. As though tears were the indispensable oil without which the machinery of mutual confidence could not run smoothly between the two sister, the sisters after their tears talked, not of what was uppermost in their minds, but though they talked of outside matters, they understood each other.
Leo Tolstoy
#74. He seemed happy. She thought that she seldom concerned herself about Laurence's being happy. She wanted him to be in a good mood, so that everything would go smoothly, but that was not the same thing.
Alice Munro
#75. Everyone gets knocked back, no one rises smoothly to the top without hindrance. The ones who succeed are those who say, right, let's give it another go.
James Dyson
#76. My priorities are: I need to be good; I need to be well within for my children to be well within; and then the creative process flows, organically and smoothly. I'm not looking to experience what I went through in the 'Livin' La Vida Loca' days again.
Ricky Martin
#77. Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.
Ovid
#78. In fact, the recent increase in intra-firm trading enables businesses to shift their activities across borders smoothly, thereby strengthening the response of economic activity to exchange rate movements in the long run.
Toshihiko Fukui
#79. I never thought I would touch you again," he says smoothly, his tone laced with emotion.
Marissa Carmel
#80. A story isn't like a smoothly running engine, but is rather like a photograph. Photos can never be a perfect representation of what an eye looking at the same subject will see, partially due to the limitations of lenses and emulsions, but largely due to the conscious choice of the photographer.
Nick Mamatas
#81. The high, thin nose was a little lonely, a little sad, but the bud of her lips opened and closed smoothly, like a beautiful little circle of leeches.
Yasunari Kawabata
#83. When things go smoothly, then we can pretend we are something very special. But something happens, something unexpected, then we are forced to act like normal human beings.
Dalai Lama XIV
#84. Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they often play a key role in making markets run smoothly.
James Surowiecki
#85. You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.
Jodi Picoult
#86. You shoot like a girl, she laughed smoothly, then lifted her gun and shot me right between the eyes. There was nothing left to do but tackle her. So I did.
Christine Zolendz
#87. Face adversity head on in your training and you will conquer it smoothly in your fight.
Conor McGregor
#88. You only need to look at Jane Austen to see how crossed wires can become a defining aspect of romantic life. Then again, if the course of true love ran more smoothly, it would have a terribly detrimental effect on our cache of love stories.
Mariella Frostrup
#89. This one went unusually smoothly. When I finished it, I remarked to a friend that I felt like an engineer who had designed a machine and then sat back and realized it did everything I'd set out to do.
Which made him say, quite emphatically, "No engineer has ever felt this.
Robert J. Bennett
#90. You don't dive for specific solutions; you dive to enliven that ocean of consciousness. Then your intuition grows and you have a way of solving those problems-knowing when it's not quite right and knowing a way to make it feel correct for you. That capacity grows and things go much more smoothly.
David Lynch
#91. Raphael laughed, and she threw a cookie at him. Of course, he caught it smoothly and tossed it back at her. Stupid vampire.
D.B. Reynolds
#92. Tsukuru nodded. "Life's moving along smoothly, then." "I don't know about smoothly, but it's moving along, at least. 'There's no going back now' might be another way of putting it.
Haruki Murakami
#93. Am I not allowed to speak in hyperbole?"
"Only," he said, a bit too smoothly, "if you are talking about me."
Ellie's face slid into a smirk. "Oh, Charles," she exclaimed, "I feel as if we have known each other for a million years." Her tone grew more ironic. "I am that weary of your company.
Julia Quinn
#94. Everything went smoothly at the sailing events today, except for the British team. They forgot to bring limes and they all got scurvy.
Craig Ferguson
#95. Time was the lubricant that allowed the mechanism of the universe to function smoothly.
Dean Koontz
#96. It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly.
Flora Thompson
#97. When things are running perfectly smoothly, with people and boxes on charts enjoying a one-to-one relationship, then the processes and infrastructure have caught up to the business.
Eric Schmidt
#98. Only a well-oiled machine runs smoothly.
Ron Kaufman
#99. Men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success
John Calvin
#100. Things are going very smoothly. As expected, there are some minor glitches, and the eight minutes that it took us to get to orbit, we trained months and months for, and didn't have to use any of that preparation, other than being aware and ready.
Laurel Clark
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