Curae Quotes & Sayings

I'm a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn't study acting at a drama school. — Celia Imrie

Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not being or end: they mere change form. — Robyn Davidson

Time is the most terrible, the most discouraging, the most unconquerable of all obstacles, and one that may exist when no other does. — Marie Bashkirtseff

The big difference for me is that, as I get older, I find it's a lot easier to stay in shape than it is to get back in shape. — Derek Jeter

The best method, I believe, that can be adopted to correct a fondness for novels is to ridicule them; not indiscriminately, for then it would have little effect; but, if a judicious person, with some turn for humour, would read several to a young girl, and point out, both by tones and apt comparisons with pathetic incidents and heroic characters in history, how foolishly and ridiculously they caricatured human nature, just opinions might be substituted instead of romantic sentiments. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Facing death means facing the ultimate question of the meaning of life. If we really want to live we must have the courage to recognize that life is ultimately very short, and that everything we do counts. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I don't woo. We're not in the nineteenth century. I fuck. And I'm awesome at it. Hence why women keep coming back for more. — Samantha Towle

The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects. — Martin Filler

You've got today, and today is all you need to start. — Jon Acuff

By wine eating cares are put to flight.
[Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.] — Horace

Peace in ourselves, peace in the world. — Nhat Hanh

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing god invents — Robert Browning

When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right. — W. Somerset Maugham