Quotes About Curious

My stories are often a little mysterious.

I was very naughty, even as a baby.

I feel every kid has to be naughty.

In a voice both low and curious, he said, "You're not what I expected." "No," she whispered. "I suppose I'm not." Time seemed to slow and stretch. He observed her with intensity, as if she were a songbird he had trapped and would cage forever.

The last child is secure. The phrase to remove him from the safety circle is Curious George likes his bike.

It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A country which forbids an established church by law is prey to any denomination. The best that can be said is that this is pluralism of a kind.

I like to be wherever interesting things are happening. It's a terribly bad habit of mine.

know what question he's trying to answer? "I have not the slightest idea. Tenga always had a question he was trying to answer. If he succeeded, he immediately chose another one, and so on. He may have answered a hundred questions since I last saw him, or he may still be gnashing his teeth

It combined corrupt simplicity with delicate ferocity, a curious variety of civilization; a tiger with a simper.

Apart from work, he didn't need an outside stimulus, except that curious one of picking a quarrel. It was in hostility that his being fulfilled itself. As a soldier should be, he was sudden and fierce in quarrel.

It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.

Emma's gaze went from Alec to Jace, curious. "Do you worry about him?" she asked Alec, surprising a laugh out of him. "All the time," he said. "Jace could get himself killed putting his pants on in the morning. Being his parabatai is a full-time job.

I can see why you like it here, there's a thin layer of nerd all over everything.

Because I'm a cat. A big one, the Panther of Rough Storms, in fact. But still a cat. If there's a saucer of milk to spill, I'd rather spill it than let it lie. If my mistress grows absent-minded and leaves a ball of yarn about, I'll bat it between my paws, and unravel it. Because it's fun. Because it's what cats do best.

So what's the opposite of teachability?" "Proud . . . smug . . . know-it-all . . . shallow . . . stubborn . . . arrogant . . . that enough?" "Helps to know who you don't want to consider. So then, what are words that define teachability? "Well, what I just said: curious, inquisitive, hungry to learn, humble, disciplined . . . that enough?

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

Just because I am open to being unconventional doesn't mean I would pick up anything experimental.

I'm a Gemini, very spontaneous.

The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations.

Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.

The power of love is a curious thing, make one man weep, make another man sing. Change a hawk to a little white dove, more than a feeling, that's the power of love.

Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!

I am a man of few words, but many riddles.

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.