Top 100 Quotes About Currie
#1. I had found The Runaways and I had seen Foxes, and I decided I was just gonna become a juvie, like Cherie Currie.
Courtney Love
#2. All the poison that my Hon. friend (Edwina Currie) suggests I would happily take rather than be spread eagled on the floor of the House by her.
Nicholas Fairbairn
#3. We always trotted everywhere at Camp Arthur Currie. I never did find out who Currie was, but he must have been a trackman.
Robert A. Heinlein
#4. No matter how long you live, no matter how mature or philosophical you may grow to be, almost all sudden enlightenment will feel precisely this way, like a boot in the stomach, like acid on your tongue, and the sooner you accept this the better off you'll be.
Ron Currie Jr.
#5. Time and again the people still in the camp, realizing they were now trapped, called to God in a hundred different dialects. He laughed and cried at once. He had so many names, yet could not answer to any of them.
Ron Currie Jr.
#6. The things fought and ate, and when they ate enough, they produced more of them to fight and eat.
Evan Currie
#7. Oh my lord, I hurt," he mumbled, licking his lips and spitting out a piece of his helmet face shield. Shatterproof my ass. Slowly
Evan Currie
#8. what you need is a strong corps of soldiers who serve, not because they must, but because they see honor in it.
Evan Currie
#9. For your information, I am NOT overreacting. I'm REACTING. That's different. It's important to react when you're pissed off.
Cherie Currie
#10. We don't bolt, Ensign ... We advance cautiously to the front and quickly to the rear.
Evan Currie
#11. He forgot about me almost as soon as I disappeared from sight.
Ron Currie Jr.
#12. Bombs were generally the tools of cowards or the desperate, those who either had no stomach for looking their opponents in the eyes or those who were so outclassed that honor had become a dangerous and entirely unaffordable affectation.
Evan Currie
#13. He'd always wondered what he'd do when victory wasn't an option.
Evan Currie
#14. It is always easier to curse in another language than your own!
Evan Currie
#15. The military sowed a spirit of brotherhood in its members, by necessity as well as plan, and that spirit was a vengeful one when its ire was aroused.
Evan Currie
#16. That would be one lousy way to end the human race, locked in a nuclear war with the Block while a Drasin fleet came down on all their heads. Not that there are many good ways to end the human race, I suppose.
Evan Currie
#17. Fighter pilots. What idiot idea possessed me to put fighter pilots at the controls of starships?
Evan Currie
#18. Alright, chalk it up to magic supertech, and let's move on," Morgan said.
Evan Currie
#19. Small, short-sighted, blonde, barbed - she reminds me of a bright little hedgehog.
Edwina Currie
#21. No one likes change unless it is from sommething bad to something good ...
Ron Currie Jr.
#22. find. At the time, I thought Lewis was a bit hung up on ritual (sacramentalism), but I overlooked this fault
David B. Currie
#23. Whenever someone asks me craft questions like that I feel like I can give one of two answers. I can give the academy answer and say that it was very deliberate and I had a plan in mind and I executed that plan exactly to the letter. But this isn't the case.
Ron Currie Jr.
#24. When you're a child - and my understanding of it is very basic - but when you're a very young child, the stimuli around you prompt your brain to form synapses. Once they're there, they're there, but if they don't form by a certain age, they're not going to.
Ron Currie Jr.
#25. Orbiting a planet, or any significant source of gravity, was a lot like constantly throwing yourself at the ground and figuring out how to miss.
Evan Currie
#26. She'd been desperate, more times than she cared to remember, and knew that it took a certain level of real oppression to bring out violence from desperation.
Evan Currie
#27. Why do I have a sudden urge to say I have a bad feeling about this?
Evan Currie
#28. If she survived, she'd learn. One of the silver linings of battle, he supposed. Learning time was very much compressed. Much smaller graduating classes, though.
Evan Currie
#29. Resistance was normal; however, it was generally futile as well. Being
Evan Currie
#30. It had started with a fight that led to a breakup with her boyfriend, and now the whole damned solar system had apparently decided it was time to pay a visit to the Big Apple.
Evan Currie
#31. The fun thing about insanity is that it is often so very hard to tell it apart from brilliance.
Evan Currie
#32. A soldier fought better when he knew that he was not only needed, but appreciated back home. There were few things as degrading to man than to come home to the people you served, only to be shunned and reviled by them.
Evan Currie
#33. It sounds stupid, but being angry all the time is making me angry.
Ron Currie Jr.
#34. There's no smoke without mud being flung around.
Edwina Currie
#35. he had always felt that the best units were those that had traditions of excellence that every member could aspire to. Few were those who both saw the birth of those traditions and who realized just what it was they were seeing. Something told him, deep inside, that he was now among those few.
Evan Currie
#36. It was a foolish warrior who entrusted his weapons to the care of any man, save himself.
Evan Currie
#37. Why is grief, when inspired by certain types of loss, considered something to surmount, to get over, while when inspired by other types of loss it's given a pass, allowed and even encouraged to go on forever?
Ron Currie Jr.
#39. Why is it that the best terrorists, the worst enemies, and the most dangerous people in the world always seem to be schooled in the North American Confederation?" Weston asked.
Evan Currie
#40. Instead of venting my anger, which is really just hurt dressed up for a night on the town, I ask if anyone needs a drink.
Ron Currie Jr.
#41. We've got jobs to do, and we're going to get them done. Anyone who thinks otherwise can transfer to the Air Force when we get home. Until then, you're Marines. By God, act like it.
Evan Currie
#42. Sorilla wasn't going to pretend that she understood how political discourse worked, but her idea of negotiation took five minutes and generally involved violence or the threat of violence if it lasted much longer.
Evan Currie
#43. Sometimes we make assumptions about influence when similarities between two writers' work are so strong, but they're still just assumptions. Some things are sort of zeitgeist-y. There's a collective consciousness and we're all drawing from it.
Ron Currie Jr.
#44. Margaret Thatcher drove us like there was no tomorrow. But I think there is a genuine feeling now that this macho, workaholic, earn lots of money way of life has run its course. There has been a shift in attitude. People are looking for a more balanced approach.
Edwina Currie
#45. soldier's first duty, his reason for being, is not to fight. Fighting is the final recourse for any civilized people. His duty is not even to preserve the peace; that is a police officer's job,
Evan Currie
#46. Evolution wasn't a blueprint; it was a series of mistakes that occasionally turned out to be beneficial.
Evan Currie
#47. Compassion is a coat of fur I find particularly ill-fitting.
Ron Currie Jr.
#49. Thorough preparation must lead to success. Neglect nothing.
Arthur Currie
#50. Back to Basics was absolute humbug, wasn't it?
Edwina Currie
#51. there were few things in the world more useless than an empty gun.
Evan Currie
#52. Your life has more blue in it than a James Cameron movie.
Ron Currie Jr.
#53. The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Edwina Currie
#54. He didn't know what his measly five birds would be able to do, but they'd be ready to do it if he had to personally launch them into space with a rubber band tied across the flight deck.
Evan Currie
#55. Sometime you end with your god but usually the numbers were the best path. Knowing when to draw the line was the hardest skill you can master.
Evan Currie
#56. The chime wasn't the most pleasant sound in the world to wake up to, but Eric had awakened to far worse in the past. Gunfire was always a sure way to go from dead to the world to more alive than you'd ever been, assuming none of the bullets actually struck you.
Evan Currie
#57. Too bad we don't always get what we want.
Evan Currie
#59. The more bragging you see on the media, the faster the war is turning against the braggarts. If
Evan Currie
#60. ... they couldn't do it the easy way, so they cut through the problem and made another option.
Evan Currie
#61. Eric found that his choice of lifestyle never failed to offer him challenges to keep things interesting.
Evan Currie
#62. in his opinion. Masters himself was Ranger tabbed,
Evan Currie
#63. My message to businessmen of this country when they go abroad on business is that there is one thing above all they can take with them to stop them catching AIDS, and that is the wife.
Edwina Currie
#64. People have invoked the ghost of Hemingway quite a few times in writing about the book. I could get into sticky territory here if I let myself go on about this subject. The more I hear it, the more it rankles, frankly.
Ron Currie Jr.
#65. The Corps does more with less than anyone else on the planet, so they always get less to do more with.
Evan Currie
#66. That level of irony was such that it should not exist in a sane universe, but then he had never once believed the universe to be sane.
Evan Currie
#67. To each his own," Eric said, "and as my Ma used to say, among them be it.
Evan Currie
#68. The suggestion that the prime minister had been flirting with one of the senior women cabinet ministers made me laugh every time I saw it, and I thought, "if you only knew!" Perhaps they should have pushed it a bit harder.
Edwina Currie
#69. Stress is for when you have options, decisions to make.
Evan Currie
#70. Here's to loving for that long, too, and loving perfectly, without error or sorrow, held forever on the edge of madness by our desire, but never tumbling over. Salud.
Ron Currie Jr.
#71. If someone asks for a soft drink at a party, we no longer think he is a wimp.
Edwina Currie
#72. A flight to Philly, then took the train west through hills and valleys where people sat mourning the loss of steel and wondering what came next.
Ron Currie Jr.
#74. Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out.
Ron Currie Jr.
#75. I wonder if kids growing up now are actually going to have that - if they're ever going to be able to unplug and have that ability to concentrate, or if it's just never going to happen for them. It's a little unnerving, frankly.
Ron Currie Jr.
#76. But the thing is, from the perspective of a novelist there is a brand of lying that feels more honest than the actual facts of an event. Lying as a way to move closer to the truth, or to illuminate ow something actually feels in a way the mere facts cannot.
Ron Currie Jr.
#77. Freedom. That's the core of why we do what we do. Peace is a fallacy in itself. Personally, I only know of two forms of peace - peace in death and the peace of slavery." He snorted in amusement. "And I'm not certain about death.
Evan Currie
#78. The urge to move is natural and understandable. As will be the case throughout your life, no matter how long or brief, the choice is, in the end, yours. Simply bear in mind that most every choice will have consequences, and in this instance those consequences would likely be quite grave.
Ron Currie Jr.
#79. There was just something very crystalizing about bullets whining over your head; it tended to put questions of morality in perspective.
Evan Currie
#80. Insanity had its place, and that place was generally when all the sane options had been exhausted.
Evan Currie
#81. Communicating real, raw, harsh truth to people is always better than communicating a 'pleasant lie' . . .
Alan Roger Currie
#82. The main difference between a fighter pilot and God is that God doesn't think he was a fighter pilot.
Evan Currie
#83. Businessmen should stand or fall on their own two feet.
Edwina Currie
#84. If I had a nickel for every time someone told me apologetically "I don't read fiction," I wouldn't have to write fiction anymore. And I share that fascination with the truth. I'm not looking down my nose at it.
Ron Currie Jr.
#85. I'll not ask another generation to shoulder my burden.
Evan Currie
#86. More men had died because their commander wavered in his action, too afraid of making the wrong decision to make any,
Evan Currie
#87. Very few things in the living universe are truely inert. So those with the eyes to see it, can precieve a very different realm from mundane world of man.
Evan Currie
#88. Let's not worry about when we go down, Commander. Let's just worry about what kind of company we keep when we do.
Evan Currie
#89. One man's priority is another man's extravagence.
Edwina Currie
#90. Sometimes it was the journey that counted and every one of them had signed on for an odyssey.
Evan Currie
#91. Statistically, this wasn't merely unlikely. It was like being struck by a three-mile-wide meteor the day you hit the Powerball jackpot and walking away from the impact. Patently
Evan Currie
#92. Genius and insanity were often separated only by the results. Unfortunately, sometimes it could take generations before you really saw the full scale of the results, and this was one of those times,
Evan Currie
#93. All right, who prayed for the miracle?" he asked softly. Three guys raised their hands. "You're all promoted. Nice work.
Evan Currie
#94. It's quality versus quantity, but quantity has a quality all its own,
Evan Currie
#95. You never chased a sentient into his own environment unless you absolutely had to and you had sufficient forces to handle ten times the force you could see. Break that rule at your peril, as the poor screaming bastard in the water was now learning.
Evan Currie
#96. There are some things in this universe that are better left unknown. Some knowledge changes you. That knowledge exact a terrible toll!
Evan Currie
#97. I haven't written a whole lot of nonfiction, but what I have written leads me to believe that it's an entirely different muscle. The ongoing paradox is that sometimes it's harder to get to the emotional truth of something when you only have the facts at your disposal.
Ron Currie Jr.
#98. Why is it that we only see short-term benefits? No one wants to invest in the future if it's more than twenty-four hours away,
Evan Currie
#99. Deliberate motions are mistake free motions, she told herself as she angled in toward the tether. Mistake free motions are speed. Speed is life.
Evan Currie
#100. I sighed, then hated myself for sighing, such an impotent and ultimately dishonest thing to do, the refuge of those lacking the courage to articulate their displeasure.
Ron Currie Jr.
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