Curious Quotes · Page 23

It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.

— Zora Neale Hurston

I love trying to give away what I have if anyone is interested in knowing a little of what I know.

— Billy Gunn

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

— Meryl Streep

Lifehow curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but else where.

— Anonymous

Good leaders are very curious, and they spend a lot of time trying to learn things.

— Jeffrey R. Immelt

I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

— Oscar Wilde

He'd always been fascinated by her, drawn to her the way curious people are always drawn to things they don't understand.

— Sarah Addison Allen

We're in a world now where it's not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.

— Barry Diller

It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Once I started catching fish I was very curious to see what other fish there are. This happens to most people who…

— Jeremy Wade

I think there's a million talented people out there, it's just a matter of luck a lot of the time. And good…

— Joan Cusack

Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully…

— Abraham Maslow

I am never so happy as when I am really engaged in good earnest, & it makes me must wonderfully cheerful &…

— Ada Lovelace

The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested…

— Gavin Bryars

IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before…

— Edward Carpenter

[I like to] engage with funny people, or weird people, or, you know, kind of off people. [Whereas when I meet] anybody…

— Jerry Seinfeld

Many people nowadays who discover that they have a major symptom, whether psychological or physical, begin to study it. They get drawn…

— James Hillman

It's curious and ridiculous how much the gaze of a prudish and painfully chaste man touched by love can sometimes express and…

— Anonymous

I am also involved with all the acquisitions and overall strategy. Now it's true, I don't run operations. But I've never really…

— Larry Ellison

“Destiny is a curious thing. It doesn't always take us where we want to go, and many times it ends up taking…

— Ricky Martin

A home life where it's so full of so many rigorous ideas about the way things should be, this word "should," I…

— Mark Ruffalo

Common sense … has the very curious property of being more correct retrospectively than prospectively. It seems to me that one of…

— Russell L. Ackoff

There's a very curious and - and almost sadistic lust for blood that overcomes the concert listener, and there's a waiting for…

— Glenn Gould

Was his life nothing? Had he nothing to show, no work? He did not count his work, anyone could have done it.…

— Anonymous

I'm always curious, but I'm learning things I never thought I'd learn. I get to travel to places I never thought I'd…

— Laura Linney

“I am very curious about life. I only hope it stays curious about me.”

— Mark Everett Stone

For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin.

— Pierre Boulez

I like to have nice conversations with a man that teach me something, make me mad, make me curious. Then I find…

— Renee Zellweger

Each community has a curious and distorted image of itself which is always flattering.

— Carl Eckart

I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.

— Patricia Clarkson

You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things -- useful things.

— Deanna Raybourn

Even if you don't feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel; take an interest and be curious.

— Pema Chodron

A curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it.

— Jacques Monod

I'm curious about everything. Even subjects that don't interest me.

— Alex Trebek

“Her stare was serious, curious as she studied him. "I'm not sure she likes you.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

I'm a big fan of human dynamics. Nothing fascinates me more than really interesting people and human dynamics.

— Phil Keoghan

Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.

— Thomas Traherne

I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.

— Yang Lan

If you're not a curious person, you're certainly not going to be a good photographer.

— Elliott Erwitt

“Be patient, is very good advice, but the waiting makes me curious.”

— Oliver Wallace & Paul J. Smith