Top 17 Quotes About Using Curse Words
#1. The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.
Terry Southern
#2. If we claim to want them to know the love of Christ but don't give it, how will they believe?
Melissa Jagears
#3. I realized, in removing or rewriting these jokes, that often the jokes weren't done or that I was using, for me, the curse words as kind of a crutch. So then I just started writing.
Jim Gaffigan
#4. I think I'd rather be liked than loved.
It just seems as if more criticism and chastening is shown to those we love, while kind manners and compassion are reserved for those we simply like.
So, I hope you like me.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#5. I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather hideous word for it - a paraquel.
Charles Palliser
#6. I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think ...
John Green
#7. I feel very lucky to have served under some great bosses. The majority of them were men, but I have also had a few women. In many ways, I feel like media is pretty neutral when it comes to gender.
Megan Alexander
#8. You don't want to just do a joke because it works - we can make a lot of jokes work - you want to do a joke because it will hopefully build into an argument.
Stephen Colbert
#9. The more the panic grows, the more uplifting the image of a man who refuses to bow to the terror.
Ernst Junger
#10. 'Eureka' moments are very, very rare in my experience. It normally takes several weeks of experiments to tease out the truth, even when you have a really pretty good idea of what is going on.
Tim Hunt
#11. I rely on swearing just to communicate emotion, but I wanted to express the same feelings [in song] without using curse words.
Hutch Harris
#13. If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.
Adnan Pachachi
#15. We must often remember what Christ said, that not he who begins, but he that perseveres to the end, shall be saved.
Philip Neri
#17. Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree.
Ann Patchett
