What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth?
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.
Leveling off at 42,000 feet, I had thirty percent of my fuel, so I turned on rocket chamber three and immediately reached. 96 Mach. I noticed that the faster I got, the smoother the ride. Suddenly the Mach needle began to fluctuate. It went up to. 965 Mach - then tipped right off the scale. . . We were flying supersonic. And it was a smooth as a baby's bottom; Grandma could be sitting up there sipping lemonade.
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
And I knew that, being an actor, you have to take the rough with the smooth and the highs with the lows. That's how it is.
Black ice is the smoothest naturally occuring ice there is, as if nature were condescending to art. . . . Black ice is an act of nature as elusive as grace, and far more rare. . . . I have never skated on black ice, but perhaps my children will. They'll know it, at least, when it appears: that the earth can stretch smooth and unbroken like grace, and they'll know as they know my voice that they were meant to have their share.
Shall we keep men in a fool's paradise? Shall we lull them into soft slumbers from which they will awake in hell? Are we to become helpers of their damnation by our smooth speeches? In the name of God, we will not!
It is hard to look back and talk about a set of disjointed experiences as though they were part of one smooth progression.
Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.
The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.
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.
When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind.
We cleared all traces of our occupation out of M6 and moved to M7, and it's been quite smooth over there. We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.
Human life has not a surer friend, nor oftentimes a greater enemy, than hope. It is the miserable man's god, which in the hardest gripe of calamity never fails to yield to him beams of comfort. It is the presumptuous man's devil, which leads him a while in a smooth way, and then suddenly breaks his neck.
The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth.
Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
Things I can feel. Hard. Soft. Rough. Smooth. But the inside kind of feel, it is all the same, like foggy mush. Is that the part of me that is still asleep? (9)
my pleasure was in the strength of my back, in my noble shoulders, the cool smooth flesh cylinders of my arms.
I understand better than she'd imagine that history is indelible. You can mask it; you can patch it smooth and clear; but you always know what's hidden underneath.