Curvetting Quotes & Sayings

It appeared that nobody ever said a thing they meant, or ever talked of a feeling they felt, but that was what music was for. — Virginia Woolf

I was absolutely a non-starter at games. My report for rugby said, 'Nigel's chief contribution is his presence on the field.' I used to pray for rain and sometimes it did rain - and we played anyway. — Nigel Rees

Life must be lived forwards but can only be understood backwards. - Kierkegaard — Oliver Sacks

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

Any lady who has been disappointed might take satisfaction in achieving fame and success about which her former suitor might hear — Jill Pitkeathley

Colonel Bulder, in full military uniform, on horseback, galloping first to one place and then to another, and backing his horse among the people, and prancing, and curvetting, and shouting in a most alarming manner, and making himself very hoarse in the voice, and very red in the face, without any assignable cause or reason whatever. — Charles Dickens

I do not believe in the gifted. If [the students] have ganas, I can make them do it. — Jaime Escalante

We're gonna do like Posh and Becks and call it after the place it was conceived."
"Where's that?" I asked.
"King of Prussia. — Henry G. Radcliff

I find it more comfortable to say I'm an atheist, and for that I probably have someone like Dawkins to thank. — Jim Al-Khalili

[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this? — Dorothy Parker

Thorough preparation must lead to success. Neglect nothing. — Arthur Currie

You develop millionaires the way you mine gold. You expect to move tons of dirt to find an ounce of gold, but you don't go into the mine looking for the dirt-you go in looking for the gold. — Andrew Carnegie

It is not enough to prove something, one has also to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learn how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly! — Friedrich Nietzsche