Curious famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
-- Abraham Maslow -
What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.
-- Adam Garfinkle -
The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
-- Agatha Christie -
When I'm curious about something, I do it full on and take it as far as I go, but when I feel like I've really explored it, I'm OK with putting it aside and going on to something else.
-- Aimee Mullins -
I'm curious about everything--even things that don't interest me.
-- Alex Trebek -
I was like I was in science class: I was curious.
-- Alice Sebold -
I think most poets are natural witnesses and were curious about everything.
-- Allison Hedge Coke -
I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing.
-- Anna Kavan -
Clarice has a curious chemical reaction to boredom and the result can be similar to dynamite in the hands of a lunatic ...
-- Anne Morice -
It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.
-- Arundhati Roy -
Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.
-- Austin Kleon -
I've always tried to maintain that I don't have any advice to give. I'm a curious observer.
-- Aziz Ansari -
I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.
-- Breyten Breytenbach -
Curiosity did kill the cat, but I'm very curious.
-- Brittany Murphy -
I ask a lot because I'm very curious - especially about ex-girlfriends. I'm pretty good at getting the answers, too.
-- Brittany Murphy -
It is a curious truth that many cats enjoy warmer, more convivial, even affectionate relationships with humans than they could ever do with fellow felines.
-- Bruce Fogle -
They call him Aslan in That Place," said Eustace. "What a curious name!" "Not half so curious as himself," said Eustace solemnly.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Each community has a curious and distorted image of itself which is always flattering.
-- Carl Eckart -
It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the results of it are held to brand one irrevocably.
-- Celia Green -
It is curious that atheists have proved to be so intolerant of those who have a faith.
-- Chris Patten -
Artistically I'm curious. But in life? No. I can go to a restaurant and order the same thing for 10 years.
-- Chris Rock -
A role can go from being a babe to anything, as long as it's something that makes me curious.
-- Connie Nielsen -
It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
-- Cornelia Otis Skinner -
Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing!
-- Countee Cullen -
I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.
-- Curtis Sittenfeld -
It was a curious feeling, that something could be so close and so distant at the same time.
-- Daniel Handler -
Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you.
-- Daniel Quinn -
If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
-- David Bailey -
Curious patients are more receptive to new ideas, and those who engage their health practitioners in a dialogue are much more likely to adhere to these recommendations.
-- Dean Ornish -
If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.
-- Diane Sawyer -
We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.
-- Diogenes -
It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't.
-- E. Nesbit -
In the meane time know this, that the learning of warranties is one of the most curious and cunning learnings of the law, and of great use and consequence.
-- Edward Coke -
A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.
-- Edward Tufte -
It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.
-- Edwin Land -
I hear what people say, I read all the reviews, all the blogs, and I am always curious to hear it, because you can't always listen to the good press, you have to hear the bad press, too.
-- Eli Roth -
Agree to these ground rules: Be curious, conversational and real. Don't persuade or interrupt. Listen, listen, listen.
-- Elizabeth Lesser -
If you're not a curious person, you're certainly not going to be a good photographer.
-- Elliott Erwitt -
If you thought when you got your job at 20 that it would never change you were misinformed. Retrain yourself to be curious.
-- Eric Schmidt -
Photographs... are the most curious indicators of reality.
-- Erica Jong -
If you are curious, you'll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them.
-- Erno Rubik -
It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.
-- Ernst Mayr -
It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.
-- Frances Hodgson Burnett -
You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.
-- Frances Hodgson Burnett -
To be wise is to be eternally curious.
-- Frederick Buechner -
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.
-- George Saintsbury -
Faith is a curious thing. It must be renewed; it has its own spring.
-- Gladys Taber -
Jarecki's 'Reagan' is a compellingly watchable and appropriately conflicted portrait...artfully nuanced and intellectually curious.
-- Hank Stuever -
An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do.
-- Hannah Whitall Smith -
If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
I've been curious ever since I was a little kid.
-- Herbie Hancock -
Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
-- Hugh Walpole -
Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
-- Iggy Pop -
To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
-- Isaac Asimov -
I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious.
-- Isabelle Adjani -
A curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it.
-- Jacques Monod -
Jokes are very curious things psychologically.
-- James Callis -
The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation.
-- James Cook -
It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reasoning is.
-- James Russell Lowell -
I really enjoy learning about other people and I'm really curious about other people.
-- Jared Leto -
All these factors are only valuable if you're curious. But in any case, the more knowledge you have, the more things are open and available to you.
-- Jay Maisel -
I am curious about grownups, not children.
-- Jerzy Kosinski -
It is a curious fact that the word essayist showed up in English before it existed in French.
-- John Jeremiah Sullivan -
For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.
-- John Steinbeck -
Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.
-- Josef Albers -
It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
-- Joseph de Maistre -
I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.
-- Joshua Lederberg -
in this curious world there are certain beings to whom it is given to say of all things with naïve faith, not 'I shall seek,' but 'I shall find.
-- Katherine Cecil Thurston -
You have never been curious about me; you never wanted to explore my soul.
-- Katherine Mansfield -
I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions.
-- Kathy Ireland -
It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes.
-- Keith Braithwaite -
I love smart and curious people. I value intelligence in my friends and relationships.
-- Kerry Bishe -
I'm always curious, but I'm learning things I never thought I'd learn. I get to travel to places I never thought I'd go.
-- Laura Linney -
It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
-- Lawrence Welk -
What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality, It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else
-- Leonard Nimoy -
The human mind is a curious thing. It can take just so much and no more.
-- Lin Yutang -
It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life.
-- Lord Mountbatten -
I'm no longer curious about things that will upset me.
-- Louise Hay -
Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company.
-- Margaret J. Wheatley -
Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.
-- Maria Edgeworth -
Be curious. Be constantly, consistently, indiscriminatel y curious.
-- Maria Popova -
I think we should be passionately curious about what we do.
-- Mariel Hemingway -
It is curious how believable I can be when I criticize myself, how unconvincing when I give myself praise.
-- Marion Dane Bauer -
I was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many things as I wanted.
-- Martha Stewart -
I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.
-- Mary Oliver -
...painfully curious...about how it feels to fall.
-- Marya Hornbacher -
It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.
-- Matthew Sweet -
David Fincher is one of the best directors I know, so I'm really curious to see it. Really curious, and I want to hear Daniel have the Swedish accent.
-- Michael Nyqvist -
In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.
-- Michael Shermer -
It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life.
-- Michel Houellebecq -
It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they originate in urges that are rarely satisfied with single images.
-- Minor White -
The people that always impress me are the ones that are curious about what they're going to do next.
-- Mitchell Hurwitz
