Ponyboy Curtis Quotes

You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight. ~ S.E. Hinton

Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold. ~ S.E. Hinton

Is the depressing part that he's only half right - it's not that she doesn't need rescuing but that nobody else will be able to do it? She has always somehow known that she is the one who will have to rescue herself. Or maybe what's depressing is that this knowledge seems like it should make life easier, and instead it makes it harder. ~ Curtis Sittenfeld

Block Watch, Crime Watch, we have hundreds of thousands of Americans, every day and night, risking their lives, going out for no pay as volunteers, protecting Americans like all of you and not asking anything in return. And the other day I'm speaking in a high school in New Jersey and the youngsters go, oh, you're just like Zimmerman. ~ Curtis Sliwa

I believe that being on that show [the Voice] and getting the exposure opened the door for me to get my name and music outside of Texas and the markets I was used to playing in. One of the bigger things that came about from being on the show was that I got on with Paradigm Booking Agency; one of my earlier problems was how hard it is to get booked if you don't have a good booking agency. ~ Curtis Grimes

Give it all you Got ~ Curtis Granderson

I barely got out of high school, and I look back at my life often and go, 'Wow, this was awesome!' ~ Jamie Lee Curtis

I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal. ~ Curtis Carlson

I walked around the sad honkytonks of Curtis Street; young kids in jeans and red shirts; peanut shells, movie marquees, shooting parlours. Beyond the glittering street was darkness, and beyond the darkness the West. I had to go. ~ Jack Kerouac

Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks!"
~ Richard Curtis ~ ~ Richard Curtis

In business there's people who have talent and there's people whose talent is to take advantage of people who have talent. ~ Curtis Jackson

Really, Mom? Boob play isn't your thing? You didn't have an urge to motorboat them? I, for one, am shocked. ~ Laurel Ulen Curtis

I'm not a nerd, I play one on TV. ~ Curtis Armstrong

I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable. ~ Tony Curtis

Puffy's contribution to hip-hop culture was the remix. He offered us the music that his mom played in front of him, with newer drums and younger artists. That worked, and will consistently be there. The remix comes right after the original record, that's something Puffy did to influence the culture. ~ Curtis Jackson

I think that there's some confusion in my own mind about what I believe. ~ Curtis Sittenfeld

I don't see the big picture. I don't have a clue. But I know God does. I'm going to declare that, even if I don't feel it right now. ~ Steven Curtis Chapman

You'll never appreciate something you're given as much as something you've earned. ~ Laurel Ulen Curtis

Jimmie says our socks and clothes are very religious because they are so holey ~ Christopher Paul Curtis

I think Frank Ocean is a talented artist; I think he's created material that made me know his name, that impressed me, with things he said on a song like 'Novacane.' ~ Curtis Jackson

In any matter where we have questions, we have a right to ask the Holy Spirit to lead us and to expect His gentle guiding. ~ Curtis Hutson

There has been, down through the ages, a very real and "purposeful" conspiracy to thwart the plans of God. ~ Curtis A. Chamberlain

Being emotionally undercut by some friends, can feel like a physical uppercut to the chin, when deep down you just weren't ready for it, again. ~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

I look at everything in an artistic way. ~ Tony Curtis

Of course I wanted to embarrass my children one day. Isn't that why people had kids?
Besides free labor, I mean. ~ Laurel Ulen Curtis

I opened my mouth to reply, but then closed it again. Talking to Mom was a bit like trying to fold a fitted sheet: no matter how hard you try, it always ends up a lumpy, crooked mess. So why even bother? (Page 120) ~ Marci Lyn Curtis

People recognized you or they didn't, and it was unrelated to knowing you. Knowing you could just be your name or the street you lived on, your father's job. Recognizing you was understanding you had thoughts in your head, finding the same things funny or excruciating, remembering what you'd said months or even years after you'd said ~ Curtis Sittenfeld

Men of action must be led by men of virtue, else there is no honor, merely chaos and barbarism. ~ Curtis Craddock

People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die. ~ Curtis Sliwa

Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive. ~ Curtis Sittenfeld

And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use. ~ Jamie Lee Curtis

You wanna know the secret of life? The saliva of young girls. ~ Tony Curtis

As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us. ~ Steven Curtis Chapman

See, I always forget this about you," he says, and even now, long after we first lost our privacy, I can't help wondering who's overhearing him. "Every decade, you like to pin me to the ground, pull open my mouth, and take a sh** right into it. ~ Curtis Sittenfeld

Even if I was planning on giving the business, I never wanted to look like I was in "the business". ~ Laurel Ulen Curtis

Ten-year-old Bud is a motherless boy on the run, and his momma never told him who his father was. But she left a clue: posters of Herman E. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!! Bud's got an idea that those posters will lead him to his father. Once he decides to hit the road and find this mystery man, nothing can stop him - not hunger, not cops, not vampires, not even Herman E. Calloway himself. ~ Christopher Paul Curtis