Curious Quotes

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It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair of individuals. One… — William Dean Howells
I find this curious - two photos from today, one edited so my skin is perfect and one real. remember flaws are ok. — Lorde
I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my… — Camille Claudel
Itâ€™s a curious thing. I suppose most people think of artists as impatient but I donâ€™t know of any first-rate artist who hasnâ€™t manifested in… — Mark Van Doren
I was curious what would happen, — Hannibal
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)â€”Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already… — Walt Whitman
There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life… — Don DeLillo
When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all… — Paul Auster
Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to… — Tom Peters
I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; To… — William Wordsworth
What's curious about the left's current obsession with Timothy McVeigh is that it proves that - despite a frantic search for 15 years - liberals… — Ann Coulter
A lot of people are curious why I'm a lesbian. Ladies and gentlemen, the cast of Entourage! — Jane Lynch
What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the consequences… — J. William Fulbright
Staying requires being curious about who you actually are when you don't take yourself to be a collection of memories.When you don't infer your existence… — Geneen Roth
What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that you feel it all in… — Ta-Nehisi Coates
A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious. — Rachel Kushner
We're all naturally curious when we're eight years old. But as most people get older, they become less and less curious, so they ask other… — Ron Miriello
There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong. 'Why did you climb the mountain?' 'I climbed the mountain because it was there.' That's utter nonsense...You climbed… — Larry Ellison
By the time these students enter the workforce, many of the jobs they will apply for ill be in industries that don't even exist yet.… — Taylor Mali
In all places where there is a Summer and a Winter, and where your Gardens of pleasure are sometimes clothed with their verdant garments, and… — Unknown Author

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