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Quotes About Curious

Deborah Harry: Giorgio was great. He's a funny personality. In a way, he's a scientist. A bit like Leonardo da Vinci, he's this multilayered artist, a scientist, a curious person. He's kind of a mathematician, and we were all sort of in awe of him.
~ Dylan Jones
I am ignorant, but curious. Not incapable, but I can tell I'm embarking on a long journey across a deep sea. A lot will be required of me that I want desperately to learn.
~ E Lockhart
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
A nomadic chicken was pacing across the street
~ Edmund Crispin
It is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.
~ Edward Carpenter
She comes downstairs and is surprised to be handed a curious-looking bouquet. Only on closer inspection does it become apparent that this is, in fact, a bunch made up of candied flowers---pale orange blossoms, bright blue florets of borage, even tender young rosebuds, all encased in hard, clear shells of sugar, like tiny caramel apples.
~ Anthony Capella
There's a name for people with an interest in the moon," Alex said. "They're called lunatics.
~ Anthony Horowitz
Twitter is the most impulsive form of social media, but it's still the most celebrated among politicians and pundits within the Beltway, which is curious, since it can destroy any sense of privacy.
~ Meghan McCain
I like to say I'm like a puppy in a room of cats.
~ Yungblud
Who doesn't like dolphins? They're like puppies.
~ Austin Stowell
I like to be fulfilled in telling stories and in creating, but I'm just a curious person.
~ Jay Ellis
I can't say the words. They're so queer.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
It is said…." What a curious speech mannerism they have here. If they only knew what it reveals about their dependence on superstitions.
~ Frank Herbert
In some of the great cities of Europe - Paris, Vienna, Prague, and Brussels - tourists bored with life above ground can descend below. All these cities have sewer museums and tours, and all expose their underbelly willingly to the curious. But not London, arguably the home of the most splendid sewer network in Europe.
~ Rose George
I like a man who has a great curiosity and sense of adventure because that's the way I am. He has to have a willingness to be vulnerable and a willingness to see where the road takes us. And I want a man who is romantic.
~ Mary Frann
I think I was always this weird, watchful kind of kid, and there was an awful lot of coming and going in my house as a result of my father being a doctor and then, later, a politician... We'd literally be having to get through the window some days because we couldn't get in the door.
~ Ardal O'Hanlon
I was a backstage kid. I was in the wings looking out.
~ Joely Fisher
I once found myself in Paris, Texas, possibly the most curious juxtaposition of place names in America.
~ Neil Macdonald
Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge.
~ Roger Ebert
What is particularly curious about quantum theory is that there can be actual physical effects arising from what philosophers refer to as counterfactuals-that is, things that might have happened, although they did not in fact happen.
~ Roger Penrose
On raconte qu'elle est très bizarre. - Alors elle est sûrement très intéressante, [...], les gens bizarres le sont toujours, peu importe ce qu'ils sont ou ne sont pas d'autre.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Santa curiosidade! Tu não és só a alma da civilização, és também o pomo da concórdia, fruta divina, de outro sabor que não aquele pomo da mitologia.
~ Machado de Assis
Just then his state of being was so curious that he was compelled , himself, to see it -- eager, grieving, fantastic, dangerous, crazed and, to the point of death, comical. It was enough to make a man pray to God to remove this great, bone-breaking burden of selfhood and self-development, give himself, a failure, back to the species for a primitive cure.
~ Saul Bellow