Curtain Lectures Quotes

#1. humans are fully capable of loving cats and dogs and tropical fish. If they can love something much less intelligent than humans that does not talk and looks nothing like them, why can they not love one another? Certainly,

Hiroshi Yamamoto

#2. At the end of life death is a departure; but at life's beginning a departure is death.

Victor Hugo

#3. There are many people who don't do well on a vegetarian or vegan diet, that for them, meat is a very nutritious food. So, I'm not prepared to give up meat. I don't think we need to give up meat, but we certainly need to change the way we raise meat and diminish the amount of it in our diet.

Michael Pollan

#4. Alone, I am satisfied with myself. With others, I am beset by troubling comparisons.

Mason Cooley

#5. Dee, I think the reason why he stares at me is because he's planning on ways to kill me and hide my body.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#6. Don't mess with my money.

Lowell Fulson

#7. Me?" "Yeah you," he said, giving me a wry smile. "I gave you my number half expecting you would never call, and so when you did ... why do you think I was so gung ho about driving all the way out here? I wanted to spend time with you.

Alicia Thompson

#8. Yes, it's important to inspire the next generation but let's not forget to inspire the now generation too.

Onyi Anyado

#9. The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.

Walter Lippmann

#10. Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred,
The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.

Juvenal

#11. You live long enough, you lose enough people, you learn to appreciate the memories you have.

Nicholas Sparks

#12. And I talked to my doctor, and I must admit, you know, I'm sometimes quite renowned for my outbursts and I was just very frustrated, maybe a little frightened.

Elton John

#13. High on their posthumous pedestals, the dead become hard to see. Grief, deference, and the homogenizing effects of adulation blur the details, flatten the bumps, sand off the sharp corners.

Anne Fadiman

#14. Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee he is trying to take you unaware.

Sun Tzu

#15. That's the novelist's job: to peel back the layers and look underneath.

David Bergen

#16. My hair curls like a yeti's pubes in this humidity - I'm starting to figure out why product was invented!

Amy Lane