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Quotes About Curious

Into a dozen minds entered a quick suspicion, a rumour of scandal. Could it be that behind the scenes with this couple, apparently so in love, lurked some curious antipathy? Why else this streak of fire across such a cloudless heaven?
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
there was never any doubt at whom he was looking or talking — and this is a flattering attention, for who looks at us? — glances fall upon us, curious or disinterested, nothing more.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Most people won't order tripe in a restaurant, but it can be fantastic.
~ Simon McBurney
Doing a movie about Steve Jobs is just generally a provocative thing to do, whoever does it, and it begs a lot of questioning and skepticism only in that, what is this going to be? What am I going to be looking at? And curiosity as well. I think that's all positive in any film, because you want people to be curious about it.
~ Joshua Michael Stern
I admire many actors, though I don't think there's anyone whose career I would want to mirror sort of by the beats. What I'm really looking to do is constantly defy expectations. I'm very curious to see if you can actually have a character actor and a movie star's career combined.
~ David Oyelowo
I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
~ Stephen Hawking
I think all of the directors I've worked with are mostly curious about the time I had on 'Eyes Wide Shut.' They really just want to know about it. They're all fans of Kubrick.
~ Vinessa Shaw
I grew up in a bookish family, so I read very widely. I was omnivorous, really.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
I was an observant but dreamy child. I had a lazy eye and wild curls.
~ Monique Roffey
Well, when I was a teenager I was terribly bookish. I was very studious.
~ Robert Sapolsky
Children, I have found, are much more swift to accept the unusual. They admit their curiosity, you see, rather than disdaining the object that arouses it.
~ Robin Hobb
She craned her neck to see if Anna was
~ Lisa Scottoline
Servants ran to wake the young king, Tamar, already awake and watching from his balcony. Curious, naturally. Not altogether pleased. No more than anyone would be, jolted out of a sound sleep by unexpected elephants.
~ Lloyd Alexander
A smile, a weird one, nestled in his mouth like an egg.
~ Lorrie Moore
these hearts of ours are curious and contrary things, and time and nature work their will in spite of us.
~ Louisa May Alcott
but these hearts of ours are curious and contrary things, and time and nature work their will in spite of us.
~ Louisa May Alcott
I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.
~ Louisa May Alcott
I assure you it made me feel quite quaint and queer.
~ Ronald Firbank
Love is a fragile, corruptible thing. And yet I have seen it evince a curious strength. It is beyond any comprehension Love is a weakness that once in a great while triumphs over strength.
~ Brent Weeks
I, who was looking on, an eager and curious spectator - I, who was watching the working of this mournful tragedy - I, who like a wicked angel laughing at the evil men committed protected by secrecy (a secret is easily kept by the rich and powerful), I am in my turn bitten by the serpent whose tortuous course I was watching, and bitten to the heart.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
~ V. S. Pritchett
It was curious how life seemed to weave a pattern that was not in the least haphazard, as it so often seemed to be.
~ R. F. Delderfield
I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine
~ John James Audubon
It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?
~ Steve Forbert