Curran Quotes

#1. I have been very fortunate to be able to work and get the opportunity to play different roles. It's nice to do big studio pictures and then work in Glasgow on films like 'Red Road' and then dress up as a vampire or an alien. I think that's why a lot of people are actors - the versatility. - Author: Tony Curran

#2. Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole. - Author: Mike Curran

#3. I almost had her."
Curran nodded. "I heard. And you could've taken her, too."
My voice came out flat. "Rub it in, why don't you."
He grinned. "No time for that now, maybe later."
I closed my eyes. There wouldn't be any later.
"Are you imagining me rubbing it in?" he asked. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#4. We can get you a throne with snakes. I'll stand next to you and roar at anybody who fails to grovel. Fear Kate Daniels. She is a mighty and terrible ruler. Grendel can anoint the petitioners with his vomit. It'll be great ... - Author: Ilona Andrews

#5. His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin. - Author: John Philpot Curran

#6. You have the wookie character, which is one of the biggest aliens in 'Defiance.' These guys are just walking about with these mechanical faces on, and it actually looks insane. The amount of diversity of all the aliens in the town is quite unbelievable. - Author: Tony Curran

#7. 'Tracks' is based on the book by Robyn Davidson who, in the mid-Seventies, decided to leave the city, go to the outback, learn to train camels and walk across the Australian desert to the ocean: a journey that is about two thousand miles and will take about six or seven months. - Author: John Curran

#8. Like a lot of films at the end of 2008, they hit a wall with financing, which is why I moved back onto 'Stone.' In doing so, I had to let go of 'The Beautiful and the Damned,' to at least give them an opportunity to move forward with somebody else. - Author: John Curran

#9. Tension fled from me. Tomorrow I would worry about Hugh d'Ambray and Andrea and
Roland, but now I was simply happy. Aaahh. Home. My place, my smells, my familiar rug under my feet, my kitchen, my Curran in the kitchen chair ... Wait a damn minute.
You! - Author: Ilona Andrews

#10. As I naturally go through a full range of emotions in my life, I mustn't feel ashamed for feeling lost, for it is honest and human to feel such. - Author: Forrest Curran

#11. There was an act of defiance which goes on where these humans and aliens save these children, and hence the name/term of 'Defiance.' Formerly, it was St. Louis. This frontier town springs up from it. And everybody tries to integrate, they try to re-invent themselves as well. - Author: Tony Curran

#12. People around me die. They drop like flies. I've gone through life leaving a trail of dead bodies behind me. My mother is dead, my guardian is dead, my aunt is dead - because I killed her, and when my real father finds me, he'll move heaven and earth to make me dead. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#13. When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor. - Author: John Philpot Curran

#14. How do yo feel about her doing this?" That had to be Mahon. That low-pitched growl could only come from him.
"We let each other be who we are," Curran said. "I don't have to like all of the things she has to do. I love her. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#15. You should do the dramatic door-opening thing," I told Curran. "Would you like to see me do the dramatic door-opening thing?" "Yes, I would. Very much." A quick smile bent his lips. We - Author: Ilona Andrews

#16. So this is what it's about? This is your mature response to go off into the mountains rather than talking about it and have s'mores with a gnome and a mountain man."
"Yep"
"What's your plan for tomorrow? Brunch with a unicorn? - Author: Ilona Andrews

#17. The spirit around leaving New York, for me, was that I just felt I needed to do something really outside of my comfort zone. And I really couldn't tell you at the time why I needed to do it. It wasn't like I was running from something dark; it was a desire to shake things up. - Author: John Curran

#18. Life was like that when you were fifteen and knobby-kneed and you only had a handful of choices. Your world was small and cruel and narrow-minded and breathtaking. - Author: Colleen Curran

#19. You know what I like about you? You have no sense. You sit here in my house, you can barely hold a spoon, and you're telling me 'no'. You'd pull on Death's whiskers if you could reach them. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#20. There are only two things that can screw this up for us: you and me."
"Then we're doomed for sure. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#21. Mahon's wife stared down at us. Her hands went to her hips. "Which one of you idiots wants to explain to me what the hell is going on?"
With great effort I raised my arm and pointed in Mahon's general direction. "Him. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#22. In this administration, a place can be found for every bad man. - Author: John Philpot Curran

#23. Go play your games with Jim. I'll find you both when I need you."
Arrogant asshole. "I tell you what, if you find us before those three days run out, I'll cook you a damn dinner and serve it to you naked."
"Is that a promise?"
"Yes. Go fuck yourself. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#24. Whether between man and women, man and man, or woman and woman; look not towards any system that binds society created by man for guidance, but be guided by the principles of love. Love is the only law that commands this universe, and is the only language that is understood universally. - Author: Forrest Curran

#25. Things such as illnesses, setbacks, delays, discordant people and upheavals are tickets to paradise. - Author: Scott Curran

#26. Mhm, Kate, the chief of security. Sexy. Who better to guard my body than the woman who owns is?"
"Curran, I will punch you."
"Rough play." Curran pretended to shiver in excitement - Author: Ilona Andrews

#27. If the lot of you survives, Curran will fray the skin off your backs,' Doolittle said.
'That's what I always love about you, Doctor.' Raphael grinned. 'You're a cup-halfway-full kind of guy. All flowers and sunshine. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#28. Oh, it's you," Curran's voice said quietly. "I thought it was an elephant. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#29. A roar rumbled in Curran's throat. Barabas sat back a bit. I shuddered. "So scary. Still can't tell you." He opened his mouth. "Lorelei," I said. Curran swore. Barabas - Author: Ilona Andrews

#30. The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted. - Author: John Philpot Curran

#31. I dreamed that Curran and I killed a dinosaur and then had sex in the dirt. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#32. Some men were handsome. Some were powerful. Curran was ... dangerous. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#33. I chuckled to myself and kept walking. The Universe had proven Curran wrong: a person who aggravated him more than me did, in fact, exist. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#34. From day one, I've always been a girly girl. In pre-school I loved driving around in my super Barbie car. - Author: Abbey Curran

#35. Hard to protect your food, with your ass anchored." He saluted me with the doughnut. "When you're ready to talk, call me. You know the number."
He walked out. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#36. Have no fear in the devil and acknowledge the insecurities, mistakes of the past, and disappointments that you have long failed to accept as new beginnings and see the child within you begin to heal. - Author: Forrest Curran

#37. The only people who can have normal are the ones unaffected by all the fucked-up shit that happens around them. - Curran - Author: Ilona Andrews

#38. I'm secure enough in myself to wear panties with bows on them. Besides, they are comfy and soft."
"I bet." He almost purred.
I gulped. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#39. Yes," Curran said. "We'd like you to officiate."
"I'm sorry?"
"We'd like you to marry us," I said.
Roman's eyes went wide. He pointed to himself. "Me?"
"Yes," Curran said.
"Marry you?"
"Yes."
"You do know what I do, right?"
"Yes," I said. "You're Chernobog's priest. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#40. Being scared to fail inspires creativity; heartbreak inspires creativity; being hurt by others inspires creativity; being lost inspires creativity. Your masterpiece isn't something that you will have made in the colorful, it is understood in the darkness. Use the anxiety within and let it serve you. - Author: Forrest Curran

#41. I'm investigating people who sacrifice trained killers to dark gods.
Perfect, it will keep him occupied.
In what capacity?
Bait. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#42. Next to me, Saiman smiled.
We all want what we can't have, Kate. I want you, you want love, and he wants to break my neck. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#43. Needs that do not get met in childhood become adult needs. - Author: Linda Curran Bcpc Lpc Cacd Ccdpd

#44. Look what the cat dragged in." He was playing to the audience. Never good. "Is he talking to me or you?" Curran asked. His voice was deceptively light. "I don't know," I said. "But I'm sure he'll get around to telling us. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#45. It's funny how loud horrified silence can be. Curran laughed. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#46. I sort of came from a big family - eight kids - and I guess I always, more than most people, really revel in privacy and solitude sometimes. - Author: John Curran

#47. Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot. - Author: John Philpot Curran

#48. I like looking back at art-work or my writing and seeing it in a different perspective...It shows how much one has grown as a creator. Perfection may not exist in reality but I always strive to capture the beauty in whatever I happen to be doing. - Author: Alexander Lloyd Curran

#49. My ego doesn't need soothing. I don't want him soothing anything of mine, including you. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#50. If I pass out face down in this water, will you fish me out?"
"Will you promise to call me Your Majesty?"
"Hell no."
"Then I'll have to think about it. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#51. How was I supposed to know that you let two little bears hurt you, Goldilocks?"
"Ah, yes, that mouth. I missed it. All mine now. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#52. I leaned into Barabas's office. "Do you want to come help pick out a suit for Christopher?" "No," Barabas said firmly, tapping a stack of papers against his desk to even it out. "Why?" "Because I don't need to see him in a suit." Curran - Author: Ilona Andrews

#53. To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. - Author: John Philpot Curran

#54. And you expect me to commute two hours each way from the Keep to the Order." I kept my voice mild. "I suppose I won't be needing my job, my house, or my clothes anymore."
"I didn't say that. Although let me get back to you on the clothes. It's still under consideration. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#55. Playing Chelsea on 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody' really helped with my over-the-top comedy. - Author: Brittany Curran

#56. I don't care if he is Curran. In your ward, you are god. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#57. Why could nothing with Kate be simple? Why couldn't Jim ever just come by to tell me that he had bowled a perfect game or benched a personal best.
Maybe finally asked that weird tiger girl out. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#58. The town formerly known as St. Louis is now 'Defiance.' The scope of the show and game is going to be massive because you have the people who love the genre of gaming who love sci-fi; they're in bed together, normally. - Author: Tony Curran

#59. Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but beautiful as art. - Author: Mike Curran

#60. Does it involve breaking and entering?" A little smile stretched Raphael's lips. "I see His Majesty made a move. Has he asked you to make him dinner yet?" I growled. "This isn't about me and Curran. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#61. The phone rang. I picked it up. "Kate Daniels"
"It's me," Curran said. "I - "
I hung up. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#62. I personally think that's incredibly therapeutic to just be alone in your own thoughts and not be freaking out. - Author: John Curran

#63. I lived in New York City, and when I was about 24 in the 1980s, I decided to get out of here. I wanted to go live in Australia for a year or something, and it ended up being 18 years. - Author: John Curran

#64. Do not desperately seek refuge in heaven and delve in blissful ignorance; discover the fires and infernos of hell that have sprung inside of you. - Author: Forrest Curran

#65. Love was never meant to be contained solely in our hearts, just as life in a seed was always meant to break through into the world and become beauty to be shared. - Author: Forrest Curran

#66. Still think she is worth it?" Mahon asked quietly.
"Of course. She is my mate."
Mahon sighed. "So you decided then."
"Do you think we'd be laying here bleeding in the snow if I wasn't sure?"
"Good point. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#67. At that point, one of two things usually happens. Either we blame the client or we blame ourselves. The first gives rise to a terrible therapist; the second, a soon-to-be burned out, a.k.a. former, therapist. - Author: Linda Curran

#68. I can't hate people that much. Don't get me wrong. I want to murder every last Keeper I can find. But that's not hate. That's vengeance. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#69. The worst thing for a filmmaker is for a film to be labeled as pretentious or heavy-handed. - Author: John Curran

#70. I would not leave you. I'll be there. Wherever you want 'there' to be. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#71. Crazy Curran ranked right up there with monsoons, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#72. You're the most experienced investigator I've got who's not tied up in something, and I can't ask the Consort to look look into it, because A) she and Curran are working on something else and B) when the Consort gets involved, half of the world blows up. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#73. I like to think of myself as the host at a party, and, if everybody is having a good time, so much the better. - Author: John Curran

#74. I've been lucky. I don't for a minute take for granted the good fortune I have had. You don't like to get ideas above your station, especially a boy from the south side of Glasgow. - Author: Tony Curran

#75. Will I get nights of ecstasy?"
"And days. Ecstasy all the time. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#76. Curran never does anything without a reason," he said. "I was told you'd met him. Perhaps you indirectly challenged him at that meeting."
Indirectly? I had challenged him deliberately. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#77. Life was the gift that you were given the day you were born, and in turn you are the gift to life. Only in the moments of being alone in the darkness on the raft, will you have the space to speak, listen, and to act from the heart. - Author: Forrest Curran

#78. In my experience, not just in shooting films but in the commercials I've done, initially, it's very exciting for the community, and its a real novelty. Very quickly, though, they realize there's a buck to be had, and it becomes annoying, and they lose their patience pretty quick. - Author: John Curran

#79. I don't snore."
He nodded with a wide grin. "It's a quiet peaceful kind of snoring. Like a small cuddly Tasmanian devil. Kind of cute when sleeping, all claws and teeth when awake."
"You snore worse. At least I don't turn into a lion in my sleep. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#80. Yes I can," Curran snarled. "Listen: this is me telling you what you will not do."
I raised the cookbook and tapped him on the nose. Bad cat. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#81. She crouched with her hand out. What the hell was she doing ...
"Here, kitty, kitty, kitty."
Oh my God, she was retarded and I was going to kill Jim. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#82. Kate short-circuits my brain. In my head we always have these clear coherent exchanges, but once we meet, what comes out it is, "Kate, do what I say or I'll kill you." Her default reply is, "Fuck you!" and we go downhill from there. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#83. I think that the pageant world overall is pretty spectacular, it just makes you feel good about yourself and leaves you with great friends. - Author: Abbey Curran

#84. The tallest and oldest trees that seemed to have just have casually always been there, hold the greatest love: as it nurtures love for others: providing shade for two lovers, becoming home for birds to build a nest, and giving food to the squirrels whom scurry upon it. - Author: Forrest Curran

#85. Baseball is the only sport there is - next to bowling that is.
Luella Lorraine Lavell - Author: Kate Curran

#86. Just once I want it to be easy and neat. But no, there is never a good decision. I pick what I can live with. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#87. We're your daughters, mister. We're your girlfriends, we're your sisters, we're your precious baby girls. Goddammit, listen. - Author: Colleen Curran

#88. Besides, if I'd decided to pull Carver's spine out of his body, I would've done it already."
"Can you actually do that?"
Curran frowned. "I don't know. I mean theoretically if you broke the spine above the pelvis, you could, but then there are ribs ... I'll have to try it sometime. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#89. Curran looked at me. What the hell was I supposed to do, catch the werebison as he was falling? - Author: Ilona Andrews

#90. Did you just grab my butt?" I whispered. "What?" "Curran!" "Yes?" I could hear controlled laughter in his voice. Unbelievable. I sped up. "We're tracking ghouls and you're grabbing my butt." "I always make sure to pay attention to important things. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#91. If you have a film that's talking about God, you would think that it would appeal to people that consider themselves religious, whatever denomination they're attached to. - Author: John Curran

#92. Curran is the Beast Lord. Tremble. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#93. Curran grinned and my heart made a little jump. I didn't expect that.
"That's it? That's your witty comeback?"
"Yep." Eloquence 'R' Us. When in trouble, keep it monosyllabic - safer that way. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#94. Artists now decline to go to bed with beauty, fearing they'll wake up with kitsch. - Author: Mike Curran

#95. Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse). - Author: Mike Curran

#96. I'm not the kind of director who imposes his processes on everybody else. - Author: John Curran

#97. People think I built the Pack, because I'm the guy who has the welfare of all shapeshifters in mind. They're wrong. Everything I built, I did so that when I mate and have children, nobody can touch my family. ( ... ) I built all this so I can protect you. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#98. Tiny gold sparks flared in his irises. "You're in my rooms in my bathtub naked and you're still mouthing off."
Did he expect anything different? "Hey, I didn't kick or punch you in the throat. I consider this progress. And you haven't choked me again, which is some sort of record for you ... - Author: Ilona Andrews

#99. Something clicked in my brain. "I remember where I've seen you before. You're Curran's ... " - lover, mistress, honey-bunny - "significant other." Dear God, what could the Beast Lord's concubine possibly want from me? - Author: Ilona Andrews

#100. Nobody ever died of being shot by a cookie - Author: Ilona Andrews