Cuirasses Quotes

#1. It was over, the awkward moment, the dreaded moment, sliding past in a ripple of commonplaces, the easy mechanical politenesses that are so much more than empty convention; they are the greaves and cuirasses that arm the naked nerve.

Mary Stewart

#2. As Harry puts it, men and women can never be friends because 'the sex part always gets in the way.

Nora Ephron

#3. I have three sisters, that's it for the family.

Selma Blair

#4. When I'm in Paris, my favorite market is the Marche Raspail on the Left Bank.

Alain Ducasse

#5. I'm a big skeptic so I won't just go off what an individual may tell me. I gotta do the research. I'ma get different literature on that one subject and just compare and contrast. I do my own selective studies.

Kevin Gates

#6. Dude! Get a fucking grip, it's just a song!
When had I turned into a 5-yr-old girl? At the very least, I needed to get my libido under control before the song finished, because I didn't think that my raging hard-on would be a good icebreaker. Well, figuratively speaking anyway, I thought smugly.

M.C. Lavocat

#7. Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards ...

Nelson Algren

#8. Biology is destiny only for girls.

Elizabeth Hardwick

#9. We rush through our days so quickly and have so many little rituals that we do, day in and day out, but then a moment like the last day of school comes along.

Sara Rosett

#10. When I was a senior in high school, I went to Ireland to study Irish Gaelic. And after one semester at Trinity College, I went way out to the west coast of Ireland and rented a little house by myself.

Rosemary Mahoney

#11. No one's serious at seventeen,
When lindens line the promenades

Arthur Rimbaud

#12. (Courtesy of Jeremy Johnson) Rory the Dead Raccoon stood up on his hind legs, his arms stretched out in glee. He looked like he was the most excited member of your surprise party, or like a Time Lord in the process of regenerating.

Jenny Lawson