Curious Thing Quotes

43 quotes by 39 authors

Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance… — Nick Clegg
The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable. — Mark Twain
I hear you guys all the time talking about Daniel Bryan, trained by Shawn Michaels. One curious thing to me is, how come you guys… — CM Punk
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
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
It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste. — Ngaio Marsh
It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes. — Keith Braithwaite
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
A curious thing about Ugu the Shoemaker was that he didn't suspect in the least that he was wicked. He wanted to be powerful and… — L. Frank Baum
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… — Michael Lewis
The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything, you… — Gladys Taber
Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing! — Countee Cullen
The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened… — George Orwell
Faith is a curious thing. It must be renewed; it has its own spring. — Gladys Taber
It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which… — Eleanor Roosevelt
A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the hatred of the… — John Dos Passos
It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life. — Lord Mountbatten
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… — Huey Lewis
It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't. — E. Nesbit

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