Curare Quotes & Sayings

I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing. — Mila Kunis

Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare and tropical fish. — Raymond Chandler

Hammett wrote at first (and almost to the end) for people with a sharp, aggressive attitude to life. They were not afraid of the seamy side of things; they lived there. Violence did not dismay them; it was right down their street. Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare and tropical fish. He put these people down on paper as they were, and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used for these purposes — Raymond Chandler

TV is like theater. You can't enjoy it without a program. — Walter Annenberg

The Waorani carry out a similar diet with their arrow poison, called curare or, in their language, oomae. This is another amazing product of the indigenous science, a most sophisticated technology that the Waorani extrapolated from an ancient myth. — Jonathon Miller Weisberger

The only thing that counts is a satisfied customer. — Jan Carlzon

Sun is a hearthstone, a merry-go-round of extinguished hearthstones. — Dejan Stojanovic

Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity. — Deborah Meier