A Quote by Phyllis Diller

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

Phyllis Diller

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Smile Curve Everything Sets Straight

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Phyllis Diller
American - Comedian
July 17, 1917 - August 20, 2012

A Smile is a curve which can set a lot of things straight.

Victor Borge

Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment, segment, section of this curve can be transformed (transformed one-sidedly) into an independent, complete, straight line, which then (if one does not see the wood for the trees) leads into the quagmire, into clerical obscurantism (where it is anchored by the class interests of the ruling classes).

Vladimir Lenin

Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.

Ramez Naam

It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve - the curve that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuous course of its rivers, in the body of the beloved woman.

Oscar Niemeyer

But I do think that when people say 'a learning curve,' they make a mistake. Learning to me always seems to go in a straight, ignorant line and then, every so often, takes a jump straight upward.

Diana Wynne Jones

What a sight there is in that "smile!" it changes like a chameleon. There is a vacant smile, a cold smile, a smile of hate, a satiric smile, an affected smile; but, above all, a smile of love.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Just so you know, I'm straight. Totally straight. As an arrow." Her voice held a smile. "So am I

Carrie Vaughn

There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you're-in-trouble smile.

Scott Westerfeld

A smile is a curve that can straighten out a lot of problems.

Ana Ivanovic

The most beautiful curve on a woman’s body is her smile.

Bob Marley

Jimmy Connors likes the ball to come at him in a straight line, so that he can hit it back in another straight line. When it comes to him in a curve, he uses up half of his energy straightening it up again.

Clive James

A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going to be all right. you’ve made it past Dead Man’s Curve and you’re out of the tunnel, cruising straight for your destination down a six lane highway whether you want it or not.

Haruki Murakami

The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.

Ralph H. Baer

Fitness is a curve. You can be Lance Armstrong, or you can be really out of shape at the opposite end. People enter the curve wherever they are and then they can move up the curve, by better nutrition and better exercise.