Quotes About Curious

There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.

From the very beginning, there was not the slightest doubt that Olga da Polga was the sort of guinea pig who would go places.

Jesus Fucking Christ," she says with that flawless hardpan accent of hers. It is an expression that always strikes Landsman as curious, or at least as something that he would pay money to see.

Or maybe they're weird. Maybe dinosaurs are weird.

not because he had the slightest interest in God but because he was curious about its internal contradictions.

This completed the curious reversal in roles that occurred in the early 1980s, when thrifts became traders and traders thrifts.

There was never any career plan. When 'Red Dwarf' started I thought we were doing a curious little sitcom on BBC2, I didn't think I was becoming an actor. I didn't see that 21 years later I'd still be talking about it, let alone filming a new one. For me everything's always been an accident.

The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.

Sure, I love to read, and I love to learn, but I was always nerdy that way.

People often called Ramona bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. When she was younger, she blinked her eyes, held up her hands like paws, and wiggled her bottom as if she were wagging a tail.

When I awoke it was daylight. The inside of my tent was coated in a curious flaky rime, which I realized after a moment was all of my nighttime snores, condensed and frozen and pasted to the fabric, as if into a scrapbook of respiratory memories.

Owen. He coined the term Dinosauria in 1841. It means 'terrible lizard' and was a curiously inapt name.

It is a curious feature of our existence that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.

If you are going to have a system of hereditary privilege, then surely you have to take what comes your way no matter how ponderous the poor fellow may be or how curious his taste in mistresses.

Lord Wellington is in the Lines." It was a very curious phrase and if Strange had been obliged to hazard a guess at its meaning he believed he would have said it was some sort of slang for being drunk.

I am an anamnesiologist. I study what has been forgotten. I divine what has disappeared utterly. I work with absences, with silences, with curious gaps between things.

I met the oddest little fellow today, Alan of Trebond.

It was then, so curiously, that Miranda held out her arms...And Rachaela went into the arms of Miranda, and together they wept,...like ancient sisters in a tragedy.

To be nineteen and feel such a weight of time was curious.

Nelcar looked at him curiously. "How'd you get out of the colony? They must have been after you." "I .... er, borrowed a shuttle that was parked outside the Legion Club." Califa gaped at him. "You stole a Coalition shuttle? From right in front of the Legion Club?" "That's where it was," Dax explained reasonably.

Books have a curious effect on those with certain predispositions to fall into obsession.

I'd been taking things apart and inventing things since I was a little kid... I still have memories as a child trying to really understand how things work.

There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing.

If someone was making a movie about F1 in the last six months, they wouldn't need to add a Hollywood ending. If they do make that movie, it's got to be 'The Curious Case Of Jenson Button,' where I've lived my life backwards. I'd like Johnny Depp to play me but he wouldn't be quite right.