Curse Quotes

It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do.

The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them.

The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns.

Sometimes people who get wealthy when they are very, very young, it's a curse to them. They don't realize it.

Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.

I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.

I'm not sure the oil producers are enjoying real growth. That troubles me. For experience has shown that oil can be more of a curse than a blessing. And not only in Africa.

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

I hold a lot of things in. I'm always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don't rage; I usually don't curse. So for me, it's a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

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

The Olympics must be my curse or something.

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.

Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create.

Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

I always imagined that having a baby is something that I'm going to keep in a private place, but maybe my curse is that all I'm going to want to do is tell everybody about what my birth process was like and what my children's nightmares are.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

The cry comes from the friends of the school-room, from those who would give the State a strong, great, noble citizenship, for protection from the curse of drunkenness. This cry should be heard and answered by every lover of his fellow-men, no matter where his home may be.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

Bill Cosby was the first comedian I was exposed to, because he doesn't curse.