Curious Quotes

911 quotes by 707 authors

I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again physicists have been… — Steven Weinberg
As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious. — Robert Burns
The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness. — Robert Browning
We're different, we're the same. You thought you'd never find a word to say to a woman who didn't fly airplanes. I couldn't imagine myself… — Richard Bach
Oh, the world's a curious compound, with its honey and its gall, With its cares and bitter crosses, but a good world after all. And… — James Whitcomb Riley
At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec… — Horace Walpole
An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do. — Hannah Whitall Smith
I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all. — George Bernard Shaw
With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. — Charles Churchill
Being alive at 87 is quite an accomplishment if you're curious, interested, seeing the fun out of life, doing things, having a purpose. — Art Linkletter
Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent a beautiful history… — John Flavel
Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child… — John Bradshaw
Rather than going after our walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move closer to those… — Pema Chodron
There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a… — Mark Twain
All these factors are only valuable if you're curious. But in any case, the more knowledge you have, the more things are open and available… — Jay Maisel
It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. — Joseph de Maistre
Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired. — Stella Gibbons
Thereâ€™s nothing entertaining about watching goons hurl venomous slurs at congressmen like the civil rights hero John Lewis and the openly gay Barney Frank How… — Frank Rich
In England, we have a curious institution called the Church of England. Its strength has always been in the fact that on any moral or… — Auberon Waugh
In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones--when the diatonic scale will be as obsolete as the pentatonic… — Charles Ives

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