Curous George Quotes & Sayings

He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in their significances. — Jack London

When you don't work for a while, immediately you get a little black mark next to your name. — Lori Loughlin

No one will do it for you. — Ben Stein

Men will surrender to the spirit of the age. They will say that if they had lived in our day, faith would be simple and easy. But in their day, they will say, things are complex; the Church must be brought up to date and made meaningful to the day's problems. — Anthony Of Padua

While Julia's down in Long Branch looking after Molly, you're supposed to — John Jakes

Cyrus's momma thinks I'm a gift from God. I didn't have the heart to tell her if I was then God was guilty of handing out gag gifts, Joyce said. — Carolyn Brown

Because silence, too, has an echo, hollower and longer-lasting than the reverberations of any sound. — Salman Rushdie

So I wonder this, as life billows smoke inside my head This little game where nothing is sure Why would you play by the rules? Who did? You did. You ... — Dave Matthews

Here's a generalization but in my experience, it's true. Women love to sit and talk for no apparent reason but to talk, but we men, we're just not cut out to chitchat for the sake of chitchat - we don't have time for it. We men are very simple people: if we like what we see, we're coming over there. If we don't want anything from you, we're not coming over there. Period. — Steve Harvey

Time is our mortal enemy because it makes us mortal. Yet without time we wouldn't exist. And it would be damn hard to figure out what's on TV. Two-minute eggs would be right out. — David David Katzman

Fear would have told the Wright brothers not to fly. Fear would have told Rosa Parks to change seats. Fear would have told Steve Jobs that people hate touchscreens. — Jon Acuff

People like answering questions about themselves, she thought; what an odd pleasure it is. I would answer anything right now. "What — Shirley Jackson

I like to stay home and listen to recordings. — Gyorgy Ligeti

I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated. — Erin Morgenstern

It's great to be able to just go with an idea and not have 10 people in a room telling me why I can't write in a huge mud slide at a school function with 50 kindergartners running around. — Maria Semple