Curiously Quotes
77 Curiously quotes by 71 unique authors
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The most important thing for a judge is - curiously enough - judgment.
— Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin
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The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.
— Norman Douglas
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.
— John Millington Synge
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.
— Ellsworth Huntington
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There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
— Aldous Huxley
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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