Quotes about Curb

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. Votes: 4

Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses. Votes: 4

Being Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm was the best thing to happen to Larry David in life. Votes: 4

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by. Votes: 4

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it. Votes: 4

I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm. Votes: 4

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions. Votes: 4

Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher. Votes: 4

I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and 'Extras' and also 'The Trip.' That had all the nuances of friendship and finding things out about their lives without it being too much plot-driven. Votes: 4

My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation. Votes: 4

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself. Votes: 4

I noticed recently, in the last few shows I did, that I'm starting to get people - not a large group, but quite a few people - who come to see me because they love Curb Your Enthusiasm. Votes: 4

I would love to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I'd love to be on that. A lot of my favorite shows get canceled really early on. I liked 'Twin Peaks.' If I had a time machine I'd be in that. Votes: 4

We're thrilled to expand our relationship, knowing that with the great team at the Music Group, Word, and Warner Bros., and with their proven record of excellence, we're looking ahead to an even brighter future for Curb. Votes: 4

Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide. Votes: 3

Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart. Votes: 3

I really love 'Dexter.' I'd like to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' or 'Breaking Bad. Votes: 3

I love, I absolutely, love the Office and Curb your Enthusiasm. Those are just classic shows. Votes: 3

I would never get married in a conventional way; I'd have the 'Curb' music as the union music. Votes: 3

You look at shows like The Simpsons or Larry Sanders or Curb Your Enthusiasm or Seinfeld, they're really sophisticated shows that we all love back home. Votes: 3

It's easy to not work on my album. I go out to the cinema, catch up with friends, eat, watch "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - that sort of thing. Votes: 3

Here's one of the great things, and I may have said this somewhere, so forgive me. Curb ideas are not Veep ideas. I definitely have my Curb idea list that I've been carrying around for the last five years. Votes: 3

On 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' it takes almost a year to get 10 shows written. It always reminds me of my old yeshiva days, where you used to sit over a piece of Talmud and analyze everything that was going on. Votes: 3

Veep is my priority. Veep is my home, but I have nothing but obviously, good thoughts and really want Curb to be Curb. So anything I can do, as long as Veep is not getting hurt, I guess is the answer. Votes: 3

For a long time networks just wanted to buy imitations of other shows - i.e. Curb (the Enthusiasm or the Office). The word gets out that "Hey, we want to buy something like that" and every comedy producer just starts dreaming up ideas like that. Votes: 3

If I had signed my fourth season of SNL, I wouldn't have ever had the opportunity to do Curb Your Enthusiasm. If my buddy OG Pearson wouldn't have passed away, I wouldn't have been in L.A. for his memorial, and I would've never auditioned for Curb. Votes: 3

I don't like to go over curbs, because I don't want to be hard on the car. Votes: 2

I don't want to live life too cautiously. I mean, you can step off a curb and twist your ankle. Votes: 2

Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life, the better. Votes: 2

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law. Votes: 2

I do try and curb my mouth, but I find it really hard. I wonder how many jobs I've talked myself out of! Votes: 2

Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head. Votes: 2

Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy. Votes: 2

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment. Votes: 2

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment. Votes: 2

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority. Votes: 2

We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone. Votes: 2

Part of my mandate is to curb corruption and streamline a cumbersome, graft-ridden bureaucracy, to put resources where they will provide the clearest results, and to untangle a complicated regulatory environment. Votes: 2

I had to take the driver's test twice. And they don't make you parallel park anymore, but you can't hit the curb when you're backing up. And I hit the curb. Votes: 2

As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide. Votes: 2

I took all of my rejection letters - there must have been thousands of them in a huge box - and I went out on the curb and burned them all, crying. Votes: 2

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings. Votes: 2

Operation Northern Star with Canada has made significant progress in battling meth from the north, and we are engaged in numerous training opportunities in Mexico to help curb the problem from the south. Votes: 2

I just try to stick to clean foods, anything grilled like salmon, chicken, fish, brown rice, and veggies. I do have a really big sweet tooth, so I try to curb my cravings with fruit instead. Votes: 2

What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are. Votes: 2

It's not that I am not emotional, but I am extremely secure and curb it, as I am afraid to let go and be broken. So, I have cultivated myself to be detached in life, specially where movies are concerned. Votes: 2

These people are headstrong and if they feel the curb loosed but one link they will with bit in the teeth in one month run further out of the career of good order than they will be brought back in three months. Votes: 2

A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest. Votes: 2

My friends once told me I remind them of the main character from the American comedy series 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I thought they must mean a sunny, affable girl-next-door, but instead I was confronted with Larry David! Crabby, moody, perversely neurotic Larry David. And the thing is, my friends were right. Votes: 2

You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way - and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way. Votes: 2

Are you distracted by outward cares? Then allow yourself a space of quiet wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. Avail yourself often, then, of this retirement, and so continually renew yourself. Votes: 2

What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering. Votes: 2

If you ever watched 'Hercules,' you can see that it was made in a comical way for the most part. I remember getting lots of letters from kids around the world saying that the show helped them curb their temper and not look for trouble and just walk away from it because that was the stronger thing to do. Votes: 2

I was 11 when a teacher suggested to my parents that they should send me to drama classes to curb my disruptive ways in the classroom. The next Saturday I was acting, and thereafter it became a ritual of my youth to see a show at the Belvoir on Sundays and, if I was lucky, another at the Opera House on Monday after school. Votes: 2

Be easy on yourself. Have fun. Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life the better. The minute anybody makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it. Votes: 2

Know that morality is a curb, not a spur. Votes: 0

I drop to the curb like childhood leaving a body. Votes: 0

Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace. Votes: 0

Alcohol is perfect for me to curb the nerves a little bit. Votes: 0

To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires. Votes: 0

Widowhood had done nothing to curb my smart mouth. So much for diplomacy. Votes: 0

I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood. Votes: 0

My boobs are so low I had to put curb feelers on my nipples! Votes: 0

Laws do not curb the lawless. After all, that's why we call them 'lawless.' Votes: 0

In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb. Votes: 0

We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation. Votes: 0

I think we're all capable of bad things but luckily most of us are able to curb ourselves. Votes: 0

Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk. Votes: 0

Winter's palette is clear and spare, restrictive enough to curb the excesses of even the most daring gardeners. Votes: 0

Drama entered my home last week, but I ushered it to the door and tossed it to the curb. Votes: 0

There is a law in each well-ordered nation To curb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory. Votes: 0

Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components "“ that is doubtless a way to curb mourning. Votes: 0

You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore. Votes: 0

Gay people don't have a personality problem. They have a problem with small-minded motherfuckers who can't conquer a 1-inch high curb. Votes: 0

One final glance back at the hotel. Philias Switchmoat the Third, stepping from the curb and in to a puddle. Disappeared. Votes: 0

Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire? Votes: 0

I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same. Votes: 0

...I'd have cheerfully thrown Her Majesty and her hundred pounds of baggage to the curb, but that wasn't mature. ~Cat on Annette Votes: 0

Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff. Votes: 0

For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse. Votes: 0

...the greatest political problem facing the world today is...how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable bounds. Votes: 0

Those who buy in to global warming wish to drastically curb human economic and industrial activities, regardless of the consequences for people, especially the poor. Votes: 0

They can change every name in South Africa, but it won't change the fact that the government has failed to provide services or curb crime Votes: 0

You don't need a search warrant to go through someone's trash. Seriously. Once it hits the curb it is totally fair game-you an look it up. Votes: 0

Ownership has been separated from control; and this separation has removed many of the checks which formerly operated to curb the misuse of wealth and power. Votes: 0

When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again. Votes: 0

I'm confident that the terrorists are aware that from the curb to the cockpit we've got additional security measures that didn't exist a couple of years ago. Votes: 0

All one has to do to gather a large crowd in New York is to stand on the curb a few minutes and gaze intently at the sky. Votes: 0

You persist in this romantic vision of what it is to be a vampire, but despite my best efforts to curb it I have a taste for blood. Votes: 0

The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a swarm of mosquitoes. Votes: 0

If Neptune were analogized with a Chevy Impala in mass, then how big is pluto compared to that? Pluto would be a matchbox car sitting on the curb. Votes: 0

I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration. Votes: 0

I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire--I admit, a natural one for the most part--to exterminate your fellows. Votes: 0

A Jewish man pulls up to the curb and asks the policeman, "Can I park here?" "No" says the cop. "What about all these other cars?" "They didn't ask!" Votes: 0

What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones that don't match up you kind of kick to the curb. Votes: 0

You want to know the way to raise money? Put a transaction fee on Wall Street, so maybe we can curb some of the speculation and raise some money. Votes: 0

Adrian suddenly made an abrupt turn onto a side street we'd nearly driven past. I jerked upright as he clipped the curb. "What are you doing? Think about your tires! Votes: 0

I slice up a ton of cucumbers, celery, carrots and red and yellow peppers. Keep them in your fridge so you always have something handy to curb your snack attack. Votes: 0

Adrian suddenly made an abrupt turn onto a side street we'd nearly driven past. I jerked upright as he clipped the curb.What are you doing? Think about your tires! Votes: 0

Throughout high school, I peddled my eggs, had a vendor stand at the local curb market - precursor to today's farmers' markets - and competed in 4-H contests and interscholastic debate. Votes: 0

You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore. Votes: 0

Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race? Votes: 0

The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon. Votes: 0

Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life. Votes: 0

Wayne was one of the worst drivers Finn had ever met. The bus nearly sideswiped two cars, then veered left and scraped its wheels against the curb, before smashing back down the roadway. Votes: 0

Unless we can act collectively, there would be no way to defend ourselves, no way to define or enforce property rights. We couldn't curb congestion or pollution or build and maintain public infrastructure. Votes: 0

It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This is the meaning of all struggles which men have fought for liberty. Votes: 0

Every last souvenir of the love we had, the prizes & the debris of this relationship, like the glitter in the gutter when the parade has passed, all the everything & whatnot kicked to the curb. Votes: 0

Here's the truth: even if countries like the United States curb our emissions, if growing countries like India-with soaring energy needs-don't also embrace cleaner fuels, then we don't stand a chance against climate change. Votes: 0

Guard, O my soul, against pomp and glory. And if you cannot curb your ambitions, at least pursue them hesitantly, cautiously. And the higher you go, the more searching and careful you need to be. Votes: 0

On turf and curb and bower-roof The snow-storm spreads its ivory woof; It paves with pearl the garden-walk; And lovingly around the tatter'd stalk And snivering stem its magic weaves A mantle fair as lily-leaves. Votes: 0