Top 100 Curtis's Quotes
#1. Upshaw - Apsaroke, 1905. Curtis's friend and interpreter Alexander Upshaw, "perfectly educated and absolutely uncivilized," as Curtis said of him, had trouble shuttling between two worlds. He chose to pose in the clothes of his ancestors.
Timothy Egan
#2. I wouldn't care if they tattoo Festus all over. He's been good to me.
Ken Curtis
#3. I want to be older. I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I'm stronger, I'm smarter in every way, I'm so much less crazy than I was then.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#4. But she actually was glad to have identified the one thing about Jasper she'd change, because it was similar to realizing what you'd forgotten to take on a trip, and if it was only perfume, as opposed to your driver's license, you were relieved.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#5. While primarily a photographer, I do not see or think photographically; hence the story of Indian life will not be told in microscopic detail, but rather will be presented as a broad and luminous picture.
Edward S. Curtis
#6. We are forced by the major publishers to include electronic rights in the contracts we make with publishers for new books. And there's very little we can do about that.
Richard Curtis
#7. Relaxation means releasing all concern and tension and letting the natural order of life flow through one's being.
Donald Curtis
#9. Hey, I was lucky twice. I know it's three strikes and you're out. I don't think of myself as being invincible anymore.
Curtis Sliwa
#10. Mom said to me, "You can't control how things turn out. It's what's in your heart that matters most.
Curtis Moser
#11. It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.
Tony Curtis
#12. Either you are a victim or you victimize someone and in the hood it's no holds barred. The kid in the schoolyard that doesn't want to fight always leaves with a black eye.
Curtis Jackson
#13. When a boy's first romantic interlude is with Phoebe the Dog-Faced Girl, he feels a need to get out into the world and find a new life.
Annette Curtis Klause
#14. Fred!" the nurse said, though they had never met. "How are we today?" Reading the nurse's name tag, Mr. Bennet replied with fake enthusiasm, "Bernard! We're mourning the death of manners and the rise of overly familiar discourse. How are you?
Curtis Sittenfeld
#15. Where're we goin'?" he grumbled. "Across the street to grab a bite to eat. Everyone's waitin' on us." "Everyone?" Curtis frowned. "Yeah, you know, the other six who you donated sperm for." Curtis shook his head in disbelief. Some of the things that came out of his boys' mouths.
Nicole Edwards
#16. The tarps Ken Weinrich's crew used has yellow and royal blue stripes, not unlike those for a circus, and this had lent a festive yet undignified mood to the proceedings.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#17. I recently published a new book. It's a Christian urban fantasy about mad science gone wrong. And then after I'd written that in a blurb I thought to myself - when does mad science ever go right?!
Greg Curtis
#18. It's funny how the ugly duckling always has so many beautiful things to teach us.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
#19. People need things. I don't live a monk's existence, I'm a consumer, but I try to do it to the level that doesn't feel like there's an overabundance of something.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#20. I decided we should get married no more of this running-through-the-rain shit. We should live in the same place, sleep in the same bed at night, wake up together in the morning, and whenever there's a tornado, I can take care of you and watch Baseball at the same time.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#21. Folks, the message of Christ is simple. It's not heady, or high-minded, or supremely intellectual at all. It is simple on purpose. It is simple enough to be understood by every person.
Curtis A. Chamberlain
#22. For an actor to have a role that they're recognized and remembered for over the years, it's unusual. It's very lucky if it happens once - and it's luck that it's happened to me a couple of times.
Curtis Armstrong
#23. My husband once said he'd never met anybody who walked so fast and ran so slowly. As I said, it's a little hard for me to try new things, and this was me facing a fear that I'd had my whole life. Since I had no experience running, I felt like a failure before I'd even begun.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#24. The great truth about Christianity is not that we love God - it's that God loves us.
Curtis Martin
#25. No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen.
Curtis Joseph
#26. In my travels, I also noticed that kids in Thailand like spicy food, and kids in India love curry. I'm hoping to introduce my son, Hudson, to lots of veggies and spices when he's young. I say that before he's started on solid foods, so it could be easier in theory than practice!
Curtis Stone
#27. I did nothing to deserve God's love; in fact, I was living as an orphan, without hope. Yet God chose to pursue a relationship with me, and through the death of his son Jesus, I was adopted into God's family.
Steven Curtis Chapman
#28. I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of a character in a book that's by someone else.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#29. It's important for me to have my family close.
Curtis Joseph
#30. The head thinks, the hands labor, but it's the heart that laughs.
Liz Curtis Higgs
#31. Pick clothes that you really love. And wear them. And don't make anything "special." If it's being held for something "special," wear it to the market. Wear it every day!
Jamie Lee Curtis
#32. ESPN has this problem with sports, it's impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments.
Drew Curtis
#33. On a day when you're tired, it's important to just say good morning to everyone so they're kind of aware that it's gonna be a good day. Jamie Lee Curtis told me that.
Lindsay Lohan
#35. He's a lawyer in Atlanta, and he's very active in his church," Mrs. Bennet said. "If that's not the description of a man looking for a wife, I don't know what is.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#36. Imagination is our ability to see inwardly and picture there that which has not yet appeared outwardly. Imagination is God's gift to us.
Donald Curtis
#37. Puffy's contribution to hip-hop culture was the remix. He offered us the music that his mom played in front of him, with newer drums and younger artists. That worked, and will consistently be there. The remix comes right after the original record, that's something Puffy did to influence the culture.
Curtis Jackson
#38. I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.
Catie Curtis
#39. I think Frank Ocean is a talented artist; I think he's created material that made me know his name, that impressed me, with things he said on a song like 'Novacane.'
Curtis Jackson
#40. On kissing Marilyn Monroe: It's like kissing Hitler.
Tony Curtis
#41. You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal.
Richard Curtis
#43. It's not Jane Austen, it's not Henry James. But this writer, or writers, well, they're pretty damn good too.
Richard Curtis
#44. If a man wants to be romantically involved with you, he tries to kiss you. That's the entire story, and if he doesn't kiss you, there is never a reason to wait around for him.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#45. If it's great reverence you're looking for, or earnest expressions of gratitude - well, then you don't work with kids.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#46. It's not where we've been that matters to God. It's who we are becoming in Him.
Liz Curtis Higgs
#47. This wasn't the sixth month of the year; it was 'six months after Elizabeth knew she was to become a mother'. Imagine the Lord using an expectant mother's growing waistline to measure time! Never doubt for a moment that women matter to the Almighty.
Liz Curtis Higgs
#48. Except for some queasiness in the morning or tiredness in the afternoon, Mary may not have noticed any real signs of her pregnancy yet. Elizabeth's words to Mary, then, were a confirmation of God's promise and more powerful than any blood test.
Liz Curtis Higgs
#49. Irritation instigates emotion, and emotion opens the door for change. Not at first - first comes anger. But anger eventually bleeds into reflection, and reflection breeds acceptance. And acceptance - that's what leads to change.
Laurel Ulen Curtis
#50. As an actor ... at some point you've got to forget that the crew's there in order to do your job.
Cliff Curtis
#51. Our team goal is pretty simple ... basically prepare ourselves to play for nine innings every day, every series, and against every opponent. For me individually, it's more of just trying to play my role the best I can every day.
Curtis Granderson
#52. Women are beginning to lose their identity. They have jumped with teeth clenched, fists braced and eyes aglow, into the competitive man's world. They're losing the vibrant quality of femininity, the aura of mystery.
Tony Curtis
#53. A common misconception about strong women is that we don't need the hand-holding, the flowers, and the nice gestures, and what I've found to be true is that it's the strong women who want it the most.
Nicole Curtis
#54. I've been thinking about your Father a lot lately, and I've realized something. I married Gary specifically for the fact that he wasn't Curtis. If your Father has an opposite, it's Gary. I just need to decide if I want to spend the rest of my life with someone I married by default.
Matthew Norman
#55. I'm so busy right now, it's the beginning of the hockey season for my kids.
Curtis Joseph
#56. I would hate to be a new artist or writer in town today. But somehow the cream continues to rise. If there's one who's great, he just jumps out of the pack like you can't believe.
Steven Curtis Chapman
#57. See, I always forget this about you," he says, and even now, long after we first lost our privacy, I can't help wondering who's overhearing him. "Every decade, you like to pin me to the ground, pull open my mouth, and take a sh** right into it.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#58. Any time you're mentioned in the same breath as Tony Esposito, for whatever reason, it's a great honor. He's one of my idols. He's one of the greatest of all time.
Curtis Joseph
#59. Pictures all around, of how good a life should be, a model for the rest, that bred insecurity, I walked a jagged line and then came back for more, it's always in my mind, an institution with no law.
Ian Curtis
#60. I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#61. I think it's easier for the general public to embrace me in a negative way. You have people who already have a perception of me that says I'm a bad person.
Curtis Jackson
#62. My heart clutched - it was one of those moments when you feel time is a rug that's been yanked out from under you; everything around you has changed so gradually that it is only all at one you look up and realize how different your life has become.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#63. It's difficult for me to trust a woman. Men are attracted to beautiful women. Women are attracted to men who offer security - financial security. And if you have money and you're famous, women find that sexy.
Curtis Jackson
#64. My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#65. Curtis Curtis jackson..he's the fakest thug I ever did see
Fat Joe
#66. "Get Rich or Die Tryin". That's the universal struggle. When I say it it might seem a bit negative but if a working class person says it it means they're determined.
Curtis Jackson
#67. (as a single woman in my early thirties, I was careful not to coo excessively over other people's infants, lest it seem like I was telegraphing my desperation; the necessity of this precaution annoyed me, making me want to defiantly announce that I'd always liked babies,
Curtis Sittenfeld
#68. That's the one thing about being blind: you see people as they really are.
Marci Lyn Curtis
#69. 50 Cent is a metaphor for "change". But originally it was a gangster from Fort Greene Projects named 50 Cent and I took the name when he passed and because he's not active, I thought it'd be cool to take it.
Curtis Jackson
#70. My wife disagrees with 100 percent of what I say. That's the same marriage I have.
Curtis Sliwa
#71. I hate reading stuff that is depressing or morbid or in any way crappy. That's what life is for.
Marci Lyn Curtis
#72. If CASA?s board, which includes such scientific experts as actress Jamie Lee Curtis, wants to tell the world that drinking is bad for you, that?s their prerogative? But there?s no excuse for political activism masquerading as science.
Bill Vaughan
#73. It becomes a journey of willingness to live with the mystery of God and God's ways that are not understood at the time.
Curtis W. Freeman
#74. As an actor, you've got to have faith in the director's vision, that the director has a vision for this that is greater than the critics say.
Cliff Curtis
#75. The fact that I had no opinion on, for instance, relations between the U.S. And China did nit mean I didn't feel things.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#76. I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#78. Even on a personal note, my dressing table downstairs is crowded with things, like a mini landscape. It's a city with buildings and towers and roads. There's a pool and a little park. When I move something around it becomes a different tableau.
Tony Curtis
#79. The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.
Charlotte Curtis
#80. It's pretty interesting how it all started out. After The Voice, I got introduced to some of my publishing people. We were out in Los Angeles and they said to give them a call when the show was all said and done and they'd get me into the writing world.
Curtis Grimes
#81. The Philosopher's Motto: I came, I saw, I pondered!
Greg Curtis
#82. I guess because twins have this mystique, and triplets - I think the normal sibling connection potentially can be very powerful, and there's this idea that it's even more powerful. It really is, not just someone like me, but another version of me.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#83. Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#84. That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.
Steven Curtis Chapman
#85. Most people treat the news media like the exercise bike they have in their basement. They're glad it's there but they never use it.
Drew Curtis
#86. I think I know where my life went wrong. For all the world's a stage and I'm a lousy actor!
Greg Curtis
#87. There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift.
Steven Curtis Chapman
#88. By God's design, I believe our hearts and minds are shaped by Story. It's how we learn. It's how we make sense of the world. Characters, situations, moral consequences are all around us.
Liz Curtis Higgs
#89. Everything we're singing about is true, and even when you take away all the glitz, it's still true in the darkest, ugliest and most hopeless places.
Steven Curtis Chapman
#90. People often say I have so much energy, that I never stop; but that's what it takes to accomplish your goals.
Curtis Jackson
#91. The opportunity and the concept of merging music culture with actual boxing is exciting. It's bringing a younger demographic to the sport.
Curtis Jackson
#92. There's no better investment than your cleavage." Charlotte smirked. "I believe they teach that in business school.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#93. I'm a huge fan of Richard Curtis - there's real grief, real compassion in his films as well as cheekiness; it's a wonderful cocktail.
Susanne Bier
#94. The system is only as good as the person programming it. If you don't have the follow-through, your system is useless. And by the way, it's that way in parenting; it's that way in marriages.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#95. With God, it isn't who you were that matters; it's who you are becoming.
Liz Curtis Higgs
#96. I've etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It's been an evolution.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#97. I inspect the notebook of CDs laying on the floor. There's the usual suspects in there, Green Day and The Clash and The Smiths, yeah, but there's also Ella and Frank, even Dino, some Curtis Mayfield and Minor Threat and Dusty Springfield and Belle & Sebastian,
Rachel Cohn
#98. The only problem I had on The Voice, was wishing that we, as artists, could have had a stronger opinion in our own song choices. At the end of the day, it's still a vocal competition show and you want to sing the song that showcases your voice the best.
Curtis Grimes
#99. Baldrick: Have you got a plan, my lord?
Blackadder: Yes I have, and it's so cunning you can brush your teeth with it!
Richard Curtis
#100. Chris Lighty was a huge portion of my actual career. It's difficult to adjust to not have someone around that's in your life, in your life.
Curtis Jackson
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