Curiously Quotes

77 Curiously quotes by 71 unique authors

The most important thing for a judge is - curiously enough - judgment. — Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin
The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit. — Norman Douglas
We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life. — William Godwin
He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who… — Frances Wright
The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They… — Mark Twain
No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in… — Donald Sutherland
For those at home, as well as for those in battle, war is curiously disabling. The mere realization that one's country is at war poisons… — Roger Rosenblatt
Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's… — Terry Eagleton
The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind. — John Millington Synge
Curiously, a principle affects your life whether you are aware of it or not. For instance, the principle of gravity was working long before the… — Andy Andrews
Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm… — Barry Hannah
Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in a row in… — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make… — May Sarton
There is a curiously sharp sense of joy - or perhaps better expressed, a sense of mild ecstasy - that comes when you find the… — Rollo May
Once in pre-war days, when curiously-bonneted women drivers were familiar sights at the taxi-wheels, I cried out to one in my dismay: "Is there no… — Alexander Woollcott
Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations. — Ellsworth Huntington
There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. — Aldous Huxley
What is it really like to be engaged?" asked Anne curiously. "Well, that all depends on who you're engaged to," answered Diana, with that maddening… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some… — Francis Bacon
Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a… — Vladimir Nabokov
How're we getting to King's Cross tomorrow, Dad?" asked Fred as they dug into a sumptuous pudding. "The Ministry's providing a couple of cars," said… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in the world and… — John Steinbeck
I am crying, he thought, opening his eyes to stare through the soapy, stinging water. I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but… — John Green
For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone. — E. M. Forster
Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people… — Douglas Adams

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