Curse Quotes

• There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Priests
  • Bulls
  • Spain

• Extraordinary beauty can be a curse to the one who possesses it. one pays a dear price for fame and fortune

  

  Sandra Brown
  • Beauty
  • Fame
  • Price

• To be mundane and poor is the curse of life!

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Curse
  • Mundane

• Call it a curse, or just call me blessed, if you can't handle my worst, you ain't getting my best

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Blessed
  • Worst
  • Ifs

• The curse of the cable industry over all these years as an operating reality is that every year the debt goes up (and) all the money generated gets reinvested, and then some.

  

  John C. Malone
  • Reality
  • Years
  • Debt

• Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.

  

  Itzhak Perlman
  • Possibilities
  • Curse
  • Prodigy

• Love is the crown that glorifies; the curse That brands and burdens; it is life and death. It is the great law of the universe; And nothing can exist without its breath.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Life
  • Great
  • Death

• I wouldn't even say the internet is a gift and a curse for hip-hop. All types of music are bootlegged, including movies which are bootlegged.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Music
  • Internet
  • Hip Hop

• We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Important
  • Joy
  • Hatred

• I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • God
  • Country
  • Worship

• Was not Jesus an extremist for love: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." Was not Amos an extremist for justice: "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream." Was not Paul an extremist for the Christian gospel: "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus."

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Hate
  • Justice
  • Pray

• The curse of the great is ennui.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Great
  • Curse
  • Ennui

• Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Black
  • Magic
  • Areas

• When I was in love there was somebody in the world who was more important than me, and that, given all that happened at the fall of man, is a miracle, like something God forgot to curse.

  

  Donald Miller
  • World
  • God
  • Man

• I realized, in removing or rewriting these jokes, that often the jokes weren't done or that I was using, for me, the curse words as kind of a crutch. So then I just started writing.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Kind

• You can Cheat a Dragon's Curse. You do not have to accept the hand that Fate has dealt you.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Fate
  • Cheat
  • Dragon

• I don't curse on stage, but I feel like I curse more because I have kids and in front of my kids. Not intentionally.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Kids
  • Feels
  • Stage

• God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Time
  • God
  • Love

• I had some jokes that were dirty. And some of it is when I started making appearances on Conan and Letterman back in the late '90s, I think. You had to remove the curse words, or you couldn't do some of the more explicit jokes.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Thinking
  • Dirty
  • Appearance

• For the curse of Cain, the curse of being an outcast and a wanderer over the face of the earth has been removed.

  

  Abba Hillel Silver
  • Curse
  • Outcast
  • Wanderer

• Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Knows
  • Charity
  • Blessing

• The eyes of all America are upon us, as we play our part posterity will bless or curse us.

  

  Henry Knox
  • Eye
  • Curse
  • Posterity

• I curse in everyday life, but usually when I stub my toe. The topics I'm discussing, it's not necessary to curse. I found [cursing] is a sign that a joke is not finished or well-written.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Life
  • Everyday
  • Jokes

• Twiddle-twiddle away at my softly clicky keyboard for a while, making twiddly adjustments all along- and then print what I have twiddled. Glare at the printout and snarl and curse and scribble almost illegibly all over it with a ballpoint pen. Go back to the machine and enter the scribbles. Repeat this procedure until I hate the very meaning of every word I know.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Hate
  • Machines
  • Print

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