Behind The Curve Quotes

#1. There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.

Bill James

#2. My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

John Cusack

#3. I just don't think most of us are aware how much of what we throw away ends up in the ocean, for starters. Plastic bags are among the worst. The US is actually falling behind the curve on that score. China and many other countries have already banned the production and use of thin plastic bags.

Edward Norton

#4. I love the Beatles. Now I know I'm a good few decades late on this one, but I've always been behind the curve.

Alfred Enoch

#5. The reality about transportation is that it's future-oriented. If we're planning for what we have, we're behind the curve.

Anthony Foxx

#6. I don't know that I've ever bought anything online. I'm about 10 years behind the technological curve, I think.

Sam Hunt

#7. You've got to think outside the box. If you can't, that's going to put you behind the power curve in a big way.

Joe Teti

#8. I wrote the book based on a blog that I keep. I also tweet. I don't think that for an incredibly old fart I'm totally behind the power curve. I really believe that the essentials of human relationships remain the same.

Tom Peters

#9. National security is a place where the private sector could be helpful because the government is woefully behind the technology curve. But secondly, the bureaucratic processes that have been in place since 9/11 are woefully inadequate as well.

Carly Fiorina

#10. It's the abject smallness of the earth that gets you.

Stuart Roosa

#11. The past is never a mistake if you have learnt from it. I have learnt never to trust someone so much that it hurts your expectations.

Sudeep Nagarkar

#12. All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.

Stefan Zweig

#13. Actors are the most generous people when it comes to sharing their technique. But if you grew up in a household of carpenters, and you're making a table, everyone would have a different way of doing it.

Christian Camargo

#14. He had to undress and then kneel and say his own prayers before the gas was lowered so that he might not go to hell when he died.

James Joyce

#15. The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.

John Maynard Keynes

#16. If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

H.P. Lovecraft

#17. The glory of God is not that of a despotic tyrant, but the splendour of love before which we fall not in abject terror but lost in wonder, love and praise.

William Barclay

#18. Jericho, hmm?" Hannah felt an answering grin curve her lips. "I suddenly feel a great fondness for that name."
The two women giggled like young girls scheming behind the schoolhouse. Jericho Tucker had no idea what was coming his way.

Karen Witemeyer

#19. I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.

Harry Caray

#20. I remember watching Looney Tunes cartoons and having the music stuck in my head.

Petra Haden

#21. I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.

Al Yankovic

#22. Unlike other sicknesses, life is always fatal. It doesn't tolerate therapies. It would be like stopping the holes that we have in our bodies, believing them wounds. We would die of strangulation the moment we were treated.

Italo Svevo

#23. The Chinese government tried to keep a lid on the SARS crisis, but there were 160 million text messages in three days sent by Chinese citizens. These are early indications that it's going to be difficult for people who used to have control over the news to maintain that level of control.

Howard Rheingold

#24. 'High Concept' means a book or a film whose core idea can be stated in a single sentence, such as 'Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are twins.' Or, 'Arnold is pregnant.'

Martin Cruz Smith