Cursive Quotes

• For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print.

  Ashley Scott

  Writing, Flow, Reason

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When a boy writes off the world it's done with sloppy misspelled words
  If a girl writes off the world it's done in cursive.

  Sage Francis

  Girl, Writing, Boys

  "The Cure". Song by Non-Prophets, album:Hope, 2003.

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• Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.

  Anne Carson

  School, Thinking, Taught

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Slurring is the cursive of speech.

  Amor Towles

  Speech

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.92, Penguin

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• Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive.

  Kanye West

  Rap, Writing, Ignorance

  Song: Otis

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• How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast.

  John Green

  Wise, Labyrinth, Notes

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.117, Penguin

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• The handwriting was a girl’s. I mean, you can tell. That enchanted cursive.

  Rachel Cohn

  Girl, Mean, Handwriting

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.12, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• But when I saw the cursive grace of Guido Rahr's fly line writing prayers I couldn't read to the river gods of Outer Mongolia, I knew my name was written there too. Fly fishing was going to be my version of my father's sport, my nod to my Scottish ancestors and to my self, and to the fish crazed part of America I had claimed as my own.

  Jessica Maxwell

  Sports, Prayer, Father

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• Why can't Pluto be a planet? Some people like Pluto. And if it doesn't exist then they don't have a favorite planet. Right? Please write back but not in cursive because I can't read cursive.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Writing, People, Pluto

  "Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson's one-man mission". "60 minutes" with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. March 22, 2015.

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• Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our fingertips. We never really erase them at the end of the lesson.

  Ann Beattie

  Moving, Clouds, Long

  Ann Beattie (2010). “Walks With Men: Fiction”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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