"Weird behavior is natural in smart children, like curiosity is to a kitten."

-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Children Quotes #Smart Quotes #Curiosity Quotes

“the little street Into its gloom retires, secluded and shy.”

Source : Laurence Binyon (1927). “A Laurence Binyon Anthology”
“Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying to stay on the road... If you're still here when you come out of the spin, it's a relief. But you've got to have the terror if you're going to do anything worthwhile.”
“We shouldn't knee jerk anything. The Iraqi government a few years back, when they had a chance to sign an agreement that would keep some of our presence there, refused to do it. So we've got to be very careful and thoughtful before we do anything.”

Source : "GOP on Iraq: We told you so" Jeremy Herb and Burgess Everett, www.politico.com. June 12, 2014.
“I resist the temptation to curate my apartment.”
“I got to do a whole slew of TV movies playing the bad guy, including an episode of Smallville. That would never have happened if I hadn't done the Stand.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“My money's on the big Indian,' someone was saying. I peeked up to see that Tyler, Mike, Austin and Ben had there heads bent together, deep in conversation. 'Yeah,' Mike whispered. 'Did you see the size of that Jacob kid? I think he could take Cullen down.' Mike seemed pleased by the idea.”
“Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, "Why are there beings at all instead of nothing"- this is obviously the first of all questions. Of course it is not the first question in the chronological sense [...] And yet, we are each touched once, maybe even every now and then, by the concealed power of this question, without properly grasping what is happening to us. In great despair, for example, when all weight tends to dwindle away from things and the sense of things grows dark, the question looms.”
“Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields”

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