Homer
Poet
"The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled."
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Curls
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Robert Frost
Poet
"The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere."
Homer
Poet
"down from his brow she ran his curls like thick hyacinth clusters full of blooms"
Diana Vreeland
Fashion Editor
"For goodness sakes, beware of curls… It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern - but do not suddenly look very vulgar."
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"Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl."
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""I hope your hair curls naturally, does it?" "Yes, darling, with a little help from others.""
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"The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility."
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"The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart."
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"So now we all know," says Four, quietly, "that you are afraid of a short, skinny girl from Abnegation." His mouth curls into a smile."
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"I'll put on a song that I really like and do bicep curls with two kilo weights the whole song."
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"But I'll be fine. I'll be with Tod. He's a good guy, you know." He just hides it under all the sarcasm and curls."
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"Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told the truant by his marks,- Golden curls, and quiver, and bow."
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"This is not an industry in which you curl up in a ball and shy away from the realities. It's a time to scream to the clouds that we're here and we've got great values and great prices. What better time to do that than the Super Bowl?"
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"If you catch somebody doing something wrong, he will just cringe away and curl up. He will not listen anymore. Instead, he will think of how he can counterattack."
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"If anything, global response to the Rising only confirmed something that many Australians had quietly believed for quite some time: If forced to live in Australia for a year, most of the world's population would simply curl up in a fetal ball and die of terror."
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