Top 105 Curve Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Curve Quotes from famous people such as Leo Kottke, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, John Stones, Taylor Hicks, Phyllis Diller, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I'm not subject to their rise and fall because I'm not

I’m not subject to their rise and fall because I’m not accepted by them, so I have my own little curve going on. A lot of it is because of how much I play, I think I connect like when all you had was Vaudeville, I think I have an audience by performing a lot!
Leo Kottke
Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
But you grow more knowledgeable during the time you play in the Premier League. Every new manager, new chapter, has been a learning curve.
John Stones
Life throws many curve balls, and if you don’t swing… you’re never going to hit any!
Taylor Hicks
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Phyllis Diller
Because of all the various people who’ve come in and out and brought along ideas, I’ve been on a learning curve throughout all these years. Of course, everyone that’s been involved has influenced me as well. And I’m grateful for that.
Chris Squire
Especially with the live, just the way I curve words, it’s about expression. It’s so emotive, to be able to release these words into a mike. It really emphasizes this insane tingle down my spine whenever I play.
King Krule
In life when you get tested, when you get rejected by everyone and when you get pushed aside, you actually get the best out of it. That has been a learning curve for me.
Sourav Ganguly
I consciously memorized the speed at which every pitcher in the league threw his fastball, curve, and slider. Then, I’d pick up the speed of the ball in the first 30 feet of its flight and knew how it would move once it has crossed the plate.
Stan Musial
Certainly, I think Canada is many years ahead of the curve and still the great global pioneer.
Pico Iyer
On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.
Virginia Postrel
When ‘The Bell Curve’ came out, I’d have lectures with lots of people chanting and picketing with signs, but it was always within the confines of the event and I was eventually able to speak.
Charles Murray
Commercial fishing is always so behind the curve of technology that they were building ships with wooden hulls and masts in the 1940s, though it also had a diesel engine, which probably was used most of the time.
Mark Kurlansky
I’ve always been ahead of the curve when it came to trying new stuff in the underground scene.
Kid Cudi
If any group wants to not be disenfranchised, then understanding that there’s going to be a learning curve for people who have disenfranchised them is important.
Shepard Fairey
If you look at the paths of other actors, most people have a curve where you hit it and there’s a time where you make a lot of money and they let you make your movies, and then they take it away and it’s gone.
Casey Affleck
The Laffer Curve illustrates the basic idea that changes in tax rates have two effects on tax revenues: the arithmetic effect and the economic effect.
Arthur Laffer
I think you can only prepare yourself as much as you can, but no matter what, there will be curve balls. I had no idea I’d be taking a flight, landing, and heading straight to a radio station. I thought I might have time to curl my hair, have something to eat. No! You go right into things.
Cassadee Pope
I sort of thought acting was just about arranging your face into emotions. I didn’t realise it was about actually allowing yourself to feel the feelings, then letting your face follow. That was a big learning curve.
Mae Martin
Look at the scope of writers who sell stuff. I’m at the very top of the power curve in terms of sales.
Tucker Max
Anytime you come to a new team and with a new player there is a learning curve.
Robin Lopez
I realized early on in my life that I couldn’t hit the curve or throw the 50-yard post pattern, so talking about it would be my way in.
Rich Eisen
He’s so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul.
Mickey Rivers
2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.
Baldwin Spencer
I’ve figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.
John Mayer
Faith and doubt both are needed – not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
Lillian Smith
Jack Nicklaus liked to curve the ball by opening or closing the clubface at address. I never felt I was good enough to do it his way. I didn’t like changing my swing path, either, which some guys do.
Lee Trevino
All this terminology of rankings – forcing rankings along some distribution curve or whatever – we’re done with that.
Pierre Nanterme
I learned what I need to do in the long jump, what I needed to do in the javelin and I’ve been able to rectify those events. It’s been a bit of a learning curve, which is good.
Jessica Ennis-Hill
The level of difficulty in most areas of MMA is very high. It’s a high learning curve. The footwork in boxing alone takes years to master. I will rely heavily on my amateur wrestling to get out of bad situations and take me from defense to offense. I’ll try to dictate the fight on my terms.
Jake Hager
The story of how the Laffer Curve got its name begins with a 1978 article by Jude Wanniski in ‘The Public Interest’ entitled, ‘Taxes, Revenues, and the Laffer Curve.’
Arthur Laffer
Yes, I'm a 'curve' model, but to be completely honest,

Yes, I’m a ‘curve’ model, but to be completely honest, I feel like there should be no separate sections in fashion – there should just be one.
Jordyn Woods
Sitting here at the beginning of the 21st century, we’re only 200 years into the industrial revolution. We don’t have an enormous dataset to draw on, so whatever shaped curve we’re on, we’re only at the beginning of it.
Alastair Reynolds
I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.
Dick Schaap
We can sharply deflect the curve of HIV incidence.
Anthony Fauci
In rallying every curve, every hill may be different than you thought. That makes it interesting.
Kimi Raikkonen
Look at me and tell me if I don’t have Brazil in every curve of my body.
Carmen Miranda
Jack Nicklaus liked to curve the ball by opening or closing the clubface at address. I never felt I was good enough to do it his way. I didn’t like changing my swing path, either, which some guys do. There’s only one really reliable way to curve the ball: Change your hand position at address.
Lee Trevino
I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.
Cameron Diaz
I don’t recall your name but you sure were a sucker for a high inside curve.
Bill Dickey
R.B.I.’ is such a playable game. You can pick the game up and play right away without a crazy long learning curve, and that’s important for the casual fan and gamer.
Mookie Betts
If I ever find a pitcher who has heat, a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him, or at least proposing.
Sparky Anderson
We’re going to continue to go into markets that we’ve never been in, continue to grow the sport, continue to cultivate talent and the whole landscape of television is changing and I feel like we’re ahead of the curve on that, too.
Dana White
When I throw a curve that hangs and it goes for a hit, I want to chew up my glove.
Don Drysdale
Shooting on film is great because it imparts discipline: What do you need to see so you’re not finding it in the camera. When I’m shooting, I have the scene in mind, where I’m going to have certain lines. I learned to overlap and to shoot more than I think I need. That was the learning curve.
Dee Rees
The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.
Ralph H. Baer
I had a pretty steep learning curve in film – as I’m still learning.
Theo James
In Britain, you do your job. When you do an American TV show, there is a sense of being one with the crew, and there is a leadership element, which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain, you just do it, leave and say, ‘Thanks.’
Theo James
The learning curve on soaps is through the roof because it’s a three-camera setup. There’s a master and then there’s two singles. And the great thing about soaps, and soap actors will tell you, is that when you get your line wrong, they don’t re-shoot it. They just cut to the person listening.
John C. McGinley
We need to focus on green jobs: solar, wind, geothermal, biomass. There’s so many opportunities. But other countries like China are getting ahead of the curve.
Alexi Giannoulias
As a woman of color and curve model, I never imagined when I started modeling that I would be featured in the pages of ‘Sports Illustrated.’
Philomena Kwao
Wrestling continues to evolve and change, and we plan to stay ahead of the curve, beginning with ‘Slammiversary.’
Jeff Jarrett
I’ll never forget, Jill Ellis, the U.S. national team coach, texted me and said: ‘Welcome to the coaching fraternity, you haven’t coached unless you’ve been fired.’ It was the most powerful thing anyone could have told me. Of course it hurt like hell, but it was an important learning curve.
Emma Hayes
I think this industry can be tough on everyone. You have to surround yourself with supportive people and know when to put your foot down and do what’s best for you and your family. The first few years in the music industry can be a steep learning curve, and I’ve definitely developed a thicker skin!
Rebecca Ferguson
So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.
Sonny Terry