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Quotes About Curious

As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely. (Spoken by Volger, on Deryn)
~ Scott Westerfeld
One of the curious problems of physics is that it has two beautifully effective theories – quantum mechanics and general relativity – but they govern different realms of Nature.
~ John D. Barrow
My father is so jolly, and I live a really happy life. I think that's why all my interest in the darker things in films comes up: because I'm curious about things I don't live in.
~ Jennifer Lynch
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
A person who can hold the nature of a child in himself never grows old and remains creative & young always.
~ Anuj Somany
He remarked afterwards to me, apropos to Hooper, that it was a curious thing that a number of men, knowing that there was nothing they could do, could quietly watch a man fighting for his life, and he did not think that any but the British temperament could do so.
~ Apsley Cherry-Garrard
My life would be very puzzling to most people if they had to follow me around for a day or two.
~ Brad Paisley
Being an actor only came about because Arnaud Desplechin, the guy who did 'Kings and Queen', had this curious idea to think that I could be an actor, but I had never acted before, and I was supposed to direct my own film!
~ Mathieu Amalric
The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working with a musician, especially on a project for radio.
~ Gavin Bryars
It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Angrily, even tearfully, he complained of the divisions within the clergy, where "some be too stiff in their old Mumpsimus, others be too busy and curious in their new Sumpsimus.
~ G.J. Meyer
My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.
~ James Tobin
Indian politics has a way of taking a curious turn and surprising the wisest of pundits.
~ Sanjaya Baru
Children are not only innocent and curious but also optimistic and joyful and essentially happy. They are, in short, everything adults wish they could be.
~ Carolyn Haywood
I learnt so much wit, really, from the Globe audiences. If you can make a circle, even in a proscenium theater, if you can get a circular energy going, so that all these people are involved with it and present, then there is something curious that happens with the imagination.
~ Mark Rylance
It's curious that apart from the baroque ranting, 'Sarah & Duck' is very similar to 'The Thick Of It' - great characters, excellent writing and lots of humor!
~ Roger Allam
I haven't read all of The Witcher novels. And that's only because I am very thorough. I read every detail and often have to go back to the page before and read it again, and I ask questions as I go along, since I am that character.
~ Anya Chalotra
He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.
~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth
I like John Kerry. I think he's intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he's deeply committed on issues like the environment. I think he's an internationalist, which I am.
~ Howard Dean
the question of evil is a victim's question. Perpetrators, after all, do not need to search for explanations of what they have done. And bystanders are merely curious or sympathetic. It is the victims who are driven to ask, why did this happen?
~ Roy F. Baumeister
This day I shalt have to do with an idle curious man, with an unthankful man, a railer, a crafty, false, or an envious man; an unsociable uncharitable man. All these ill qualities have happened unto them, through ignorance of that which is truly good and truly bad.
~ Marcus Aurelius
say to thyself, This day I shalt have to do with an idle curious man, with an unthankful man, a railer, a crafty, false, or an envious man; an unsociable uncharitable man. All these ill qualities have happened unto them, through ignorance of that which is truly good and truly bad.
~ Marcus Aurelius
This place is weird as fuck.
~ Margaret Atwood
The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.
~ John Millington Synge