Curt Quotes

#1. The text message she'd received last night from the unknown number left her sick inside. It had been curt and to the point: Stay away from my husband. The terse message came with a photo of Gabe with a pretty brunette.

Lena Hart

#2. The majority of comic book villains are pure evil, but Curt Connors is an exception. Curt Connors is a good man who initially wants to save the world, but he gets hungry and greedy and reckless, and he pays the price for that.

Rhys Ifans

#3. There was only a language of families, a tongue woven from a lifetime of shared experiences. Its vocabulary consisted of gestures and curt sentences, incomprehensible to all outsiders. Inside, it wasn't difficult to translate at all.

Courtney Milan

#4. ImpSec certainly hadn't given him any more interesting missions, unless you could call Security Chief Illyan's last curt ". . . and stay out of trouble!" a secret assignment. On

Lois McMaster Bujold

#5. Damn, she's good."
"Of course she bloody is," Pearl murmured, her ace still stuffed against Jack's neck, even though she sounded like the prim English woman she was, her tone turning curt. "She's my mother.

Scarlett Dawn

#6. But failure has kept Curt at home like a nice warm dachshund.

James Purdy

#7. The next parent who Googles Is my 2-year-old gifted? should get a curt response: Your 2-year-old is a gift.

Ron Fournier

#8. With the unreasonable petulance of mankind I rang the bell and gave a curt intimation that I was ready.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#9. But this time I was the one cut off as he gave a curt bow and turned, striding down the corridor toward the gardens and, I hoped, off a nearby cliff. Good riddance.

Tarun Shanker

#10. They can't have Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling lose a game.

Keith Hernandez

#11. Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You're caged in. Your hair rules you. You didn't go running with Curt today because you don't want to sweat out this straightness. You're always battling to make your hair do what it wasn't meant to do.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#12. Baby, this is why we came here," Curt breathed into her mouth. "It's romantic." He turned her, one hand on her

Tim Lebbon

#13. I honestly believe that the counsel I gave Curt was mainly sound, and I don't think too much of it was holier-than-thou. I tried to give him a code to live by. He wanted not one scrap of it, he didn't agree with a single value that I held.

Wallace Stegner

#14. You know, that's a really beautiful bow," Neverfell interrupted suddenly. "Did you make it?"
"Found it, mended it, modified it," was the curt reply.

Frances Hardinge

#15. Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so completely overtopped every other consideration that we both burst out into a roar of laughter.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#16. We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused
in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible.

Edgar Allan Poe

#17. Ten years from now I think people are going to look back and say Willis Reed pulled a Curt Schilling ... Willis Reed scored four points. Curt Schilling went seven innings against one of the best offenses of recent memory. No offense to Willis Reed.

Theo Epstein

#18. Curt Gowdy was a pioneer in our business and set the highest standards for everyone. His many contributions to ABC as host of 'American Sportsman' and other ABC Sports programs are indelible .

George Bodenheimer

#19. And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.

Carson McCullers

#20. I don't want to be a sweetheart. I want to be the fucking love of your life, Curt said with a force that startled her.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#21. As he looked up and saw is audience poised on the staircase, he gave a curt nod that barely passed for a greeting.
"Well," Lucy said, "it looks as if you Christmas spirit has undergone a beating.

Lisa Kleypas

#22. A curt voice echoed in Nathaniel's head, Prep for impact. This is going to hurt.

Jonathan Marker

#23. The door opened with a crash, and the dark echoed with outlandish orders in that curt, barbaric barking of Germans in command which seems to give vent to a millennial anger.

Primo Levi

#24. Love simply is where it is. My host loved Curt's host, and that love did not die when the ownership of the minds changed.

Stephenie Meyer

#25. If she was more curt with her own family than a homeless man this only suggested that generosity was not an infinite quantity and had to be employed strategically where it was most needed.

Zadie Smith

#26. She might be curt and ungrateful, but by God she could bake.

Eowyn Ivey

#27. Curt letters, Lord Balon had written of his youngest

George R R Martin

#28. You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come across a Buck O'Neill and you know you are going to know him for the rest of your life. The same thing happened with Curt Flood.

Ken Burns

#29. def leppard lyric from Rock of Ages: It's better to burn out than fade away. This is not a Curt Cobain quote. He was quoting them !!!!!

Victoria Danann

#30. The Internet makes it easier to find good music I would have to say. The radio stations that play the kind of music you were talking about, I don't think me and Curt Smith would be that inclined to listen to. It doesn't really affect us and I certainly don't remember the last time I watched MTV.

Roland Orzabal

#31. If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.

Giacomo Leopardi

#32. And yet Curt's a real writer too. His machinery is stuck, that's all.

James Purdy

#33. Lehman uses many conveyances - including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymes - to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive romanticism is always bracing and tough-minded, brimming with a rare generosity.

Ken Tucker

#34. A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'

Daniel Goleman

#35. The curt maneuver forced hearty laughter from all of the fathers in the ballroom, who were delighted by the illusion of danger and the impotence of Nature.

Neal Stephenson

#36. Men are capable of talking hours on end over only one subject; women do it and don't even require a subject.

Curt Goetz

#37. Every dance is and gives ecstasy.

Curt Sachs

#38. It is all about rehab. Most doctors can make you 100 percent well physically. I would tell you that it is 25 percent about the surgery and 75 percent about the rehab.

Curt Schilling

#39. On a two week road trip I know I can get by better with no underwear than no laptop.

Curt Schilling

#40. People don't change that much. Instead of trying to put in what God left out, try drawing out what God left in!

Curt Coffman

#41. I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area of my life.

Curt Flood

#42. I remember facing him on opening day in 1987. It was Oakland at the Minnesota Twins, the first time I got him out on a breaking ball down-and-in and next at bat he hit the same pitch for a home run. I was telling my kids that story yesterday.

Curt Young

#43. I did everything I could to win every time I was handed the ball.

Curt Schilling

#44. This story, I predict, will grow to be worse than Watergate. The American people need to have the answers.

Curt Weldon

#45. With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys.

Curt Weldon

#46. An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance.

Curt Gowdy

#47. I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame.

Curt Flood

#48. The Libyans gave us everything I asked for.

Curt Weldon

#49. I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.

Curt Flood

#50. More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting.

Curt Schilling

#51. If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

Curt Flood

#52. Col. Shaffer is prohibited by his lawyer from talking. He's at great risk. They want to take away his pay and his health care benefits so they can hold it over his head and not allow him to talk while he's under suspension. This is not America.

Curt Weldon

#53. I'm not sure I can think of any scenario more enjoyable than making 55,000 people from New York shut up.

Curt Schilling

#54. I was a very weird amalgam of things as a kid.

Curt Schilling

#55. Baseball regards us as sheep.

Curt Flood

#56. You'll find superstition a contagious thing. Some people let it get the better of them.

Curt Siodmak

#57. Brand is how others see you, culture is how you see yourself.

Curt Coffman

#58. I think Gadhafi is on the mark. And up until this point in time, I think they truly want to turn this around and become a positive player with the West after years and years of terrorism and stagnation.

Curt Weldon

#59. In Europe we have the "loss of self" motif clearly illustrated in the whirl dances of the Russians sects of the Molokani in Armenia ... All the countries that bordered the Meditteranean in ancient times, and the less remote sections of Asia as well, appear to have had whirl dances.

Curt Sachs

#60. Whatever I contributed to the unique morale of the Cardinals was part of this growth, and so, of course, was my decision to have it out in public with the owners of organized baseball.

Curt Flood

#61. There is no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth.

Curt Flood

#62. Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.

Curt Schilling

#63. There is no certainty of what will or won't be in our lives. All we have is this moment. The last is gone, the next isn't here yet.

Curt Mega

#64. Whatever the nature of dance, it needs no onlooker, not even a single witness.

Curt Sachs

#65. If you tell somebody something, you've forever robbed them of the opportunity to discover it for themselves.

Curt Gabrielson

#66. I've made mistakes, I've misspoke, I am sure I will again sometime, but that happens, that's part of being human in my book. I'm OK with that. I've never done it maliciously, ever.

Curt Schilling

#67. I loved fantasy role play.

Curt Schilling

#68. Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.

Curt Sachs

#69. Heaven, is not for everybody ...
however, it is for anybody.

L. Curt Erler

#70. People love to say we get paid a lot of money to play a game, but it stopped being a game when you start getting paid.

Curt Schilling

#71. Leaders must embrace those they need the most versus holding them hostage.

Curt Coffman

#72. It was Jacques Chirac and Schroeder both, who pushed us into a conflict to remove Milosevic.

Curt Weldon

#73. How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?

Curt Weldon

#74. Today is today, only today ...
tomorrow ... it will only be yesterday.

L. Curt Erler

#75. The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.

Curt Sachs

#76. Our enemies and our would-be enemies are working very hard at cyberterrorism ... They're trying to level the playing field because they know they can't beat us tank for tank, plane for plane.

Curt Weldon

#77. Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment.

Curt Flood

#78. I was such a screwup when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot.

Curt Schilling

#79. You Nazis! I pity the devil when you boys start arriving in bunches.

Curt Siodmak

#80. Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

Curt Schilling

#81. The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive man tens of thousands of years ago in what is now France.

Curt Sachs

#82. Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.

Curt Schilling

#83. The God-given ability that you're given to use, it speaks as much about who and what I was and was around, and the crowd of people that I chose to live my life with, as it does about me.

Curt Schilling

#84. I've had teammates I didn't get along with, who hasn't? I've never had a teammate call me a bad guy, while he was my teammate, and if he did when I was gone what kind of teammate was he anyway?

Curt Schilling

#85. I had the perfect job for a gamer. From February to October, I'd get up at 7 in the morning with nothing to do but play games until I had to be at the park around 1 or 2 o'clock. When I got back after the game, I played until 3 or 4 in the morning.

Curt Schilling

#86. I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds.

Curt Schilling

#87. Everything was set for us to play a real good game. Then we left the dressing room and everything went to hell.

Curt Fraser

#88. The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.

Curt Schilling

#89. Louis Freeh said on national TV that actionable intelligence could have allowed us to stop the hijackings.

Curt Weldon

#90. I've helped create over 400 jobs in the worst economy of my lifetime. That's cool.

Curt Schilling

#91. I was leaving probably one of the greatest organizations in hte world at that time for what was probably one of the least like, and, by God, this is America.

Curt Flood

#92. I'm a very routine-oriented guy.

Curt Schilling

#93. Able Danger was a top-secret military planning operation, established in '99 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to identify cells of al-Qaida worldwide and to take out al Qaida terrorists. They identified five cells worldwide, one of them in Brooklyn.

Curt Weldon

#94. Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations.

Curt Weldon

#95. Although the circle dance is known throughout the entire world, the front dance is limited to the cultures of which the rectangular hut is a part.

Curt Sachs

#96. The oldest form of the Choral Dance is the circle. Even the chimpanzees dance in a circle, and people of every continent still do it.

Curt Sachs

#97. The game was here long before I was, and will be here long after I'm gone.

Curt Schilling

#98. When you're having a bad day at work, a lot of times it's your head. When you're having good days, a lot of times it's the absence of the mind.

Curt Schilling

#99. I came back after my surgery, throwing four to six miles harder than I did before.

Curt Schilling

#100. Even a man who's pure in heart
And says his prayers by night,
May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms
And the autumn moon is bright.

Curt Siodmak