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Quotes About Curious

I'm curious, what are you picturing exactly?" Augustine asked. "A crisscrossing pattern of red laser beams and ferrets in harnesses slithering through it like ninjas?
~ Ilona Andrews
So, in a curious lurid calm which could not last and yet, it seemed, could not end, the days went by.
~ Iris Murdoch
Ludens felt again that special curious anguish caused by glimpses of a happiness he would have felt if only things were different — which could be different, perhaps could easily be different — but somehow maddeningly were not.
~ Iris Murdoch
It's true that I feel content and curious, but sometimes I'm also frightened. Waiting on the Other Side may be total desolation, eternal wandering of the sidereal plane calling out for help over and over. No. It won't be like that. There will be light, a lot of light. My moments of uncertainty are very brief. Life pulls me back in and it's hard for me to leave it behind.
~ Isabel Allende
I'm a very spontaneous person. When I see something that might be fun or different, I will try it.
~ Shawn Mendes
I'm a star player when it comes to being sociable. It's because I'm inquisitive. When I meet someone for the first time, I want to start up a conversation with them.
~ Seungri
What was Yolande doing with Mayor Horwoode?" he asked, puzzled by the curious chain of informants who had provided Matilde with the piece of gossip in the first place. Edith and her husband exchanged an amused glance. "Well, she is a prostitute, Matt," said Stanmore dryly. "So, I expect they were talking about needlework.
~ Susanna Gregory
We are restless and curious and ready to get to work. The doubts and the "zest" create crosscurrents that can cancel each other out and leave us stymied by a sense of aimlessness. That is the Fertile Void. Traveling through it is an existential mission without a goal. Having goals at the start will only throw you off course. Meaningful goals will emerge in their own good time. But the unremitting unknowingness is hard to take.
~ Suzanne Braun Levine
I started school because I felt like, as a songwriter, I was operating solely on instinct, and I was having a hard time deciding exactly what words I wanted to use. I felt like I wanted to be a writer, and being a curious person, school felt like a way to solve the problems I was having with my own work.
~ Amanda Shires
The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers.
~ Michael Lewis
To live a wonderful life, be curious and impregnate your thoughts with kindness, compassion, and pure love.
~ Debasish Mridha
In addition, there seems to be curious evidence of a link between leadership and a form of psychopathology (the sociopath) that encourages the nonblinking, self-confident, insensitive person to rally followers.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
As Sherlock Holmes noted in the Silver Blaze case—the curious thing was that the dog did not bark. More problematic, there are plenty of scientific results that are left out of publications because they are not statistically significant, but nevertheless provide information.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
I'm Cochran. Cochran Stæinsby," he said. "But you can call me Ran." "What a curious nickname." "Well, the first half of Cochran is a bit problematic for a nickname, isn't it?
~ Neal Shusterman
Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
~ Dick Cavett
Sometimes I have this little girl in me who craves to do something mischievous.
~ Rituparna Sengupta
If anyone out there wants me to play a Pre-Raphaelite character, I'd do it in a flash. That's what is so curious about my playing a modern doctor. It's not the sort of part I saw for myself when I began acting.
~ Alex Kingston
When I was little, my dad used to call me 'Bandarella,' because I was a mess - a Bandar is a monkey in Hindi. I was not a girly-girl and would always break something and would be running around and didn't really fit in.
~ Priyanka Chopra
Cosgrove wondered why he was such a willing accomplice to Hanson's dumbfuckery. Why he deferred to the whims of this latter-day village idiot. But there really wasn't any mystery to his acquiescence. He was desperate. Desperate and, yes, curious. Curious to see what would become of all of this.
~ Tom Cooper
They were good listeners, worldly yet easily shocked, hungry for details, curious and nonjudgmental at the same time, always happy to give advice, but only if it was requested.
~ Tom Perrotta
Oh all the world is a little queer, except thee and me, and sometimes, I wonder about thee.
~ Keri Hulme
She has this curious heavy grace, like something out of its element making do in a heavier medium. Like she should be living in water.
~ Keri Hulme
Here are some words I love, words that describe presence rather than means towards an end: nourishing, edifying, redemptive; courageous, generous, winsome; adventurous, curious, tender.
~ Krista Tippett