I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve journeying on its way to form?

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.

Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.

All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it.

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion a screwball can be a pitch or a person stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

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.

There's always a learning curve where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing etc and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.

The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much for you automatically but I still think there's a point where you should actually know the technical side.

I wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen and stay 'happened'. I think that's all part of the learning curve part of fate. I'm just glad that it happened.

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.

So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.

Before it was just about making the films - and now it's releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve.

It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

The learning curve is 'The Hobbit' is being shot in 3D.

I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm it makes for a fast learning curve.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

I've finally learnt how to say 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.

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.

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.'

There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.

I love food and I love my curves.

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.

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

I thought well you might see curves there but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math.