Curious Quotes - Page 30

• I have not had any of that surgical stuff. I am too curious to find out exactly how I progress every day of my life naturally. That is what fascinates me.

  Elaine Stritch

  Progress, Stuff, Aging

  "The Way We Live Now: 2-24-02: Questions For Elaine Stritch; Of A Certain Age". Interview With Liz Welch, www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2002.

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• As the Little House settled down on her new foundation, she smiled happily. Once again she could watch the sun and moon and stars. Once again she could watch Spring and Summer and Fall and Winter come and go. Once again she was lived in and taken care of. Never again would she be curious about the city... Never again would she want to live there... The stars twinkled above her... A new moon was coming up... It was Spring... And all was quiet and peaceful in the country.

  Virginia Lee Burton

  Summer, Country, Stars

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• What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.

  Walt Whitman

  Beauty, Sound, Charm

  Walt Whitman, William White (2007). “Daybooks and Notebooks, Volume III: Diary in Canada, Notebooks, Index”, p.732, NYU Press

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• What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily is he disturbed and put out of order.

  James Boswell

  Men, Order, Psychological

  James Boswell, Mark Harris (1981). “The heart of Boswell: six journals in one volume”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• 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

  Ideas, World, Valuable

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.194, Courier Corporation

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• I think most people are curious about what it would be like to be able to meet yourself - -it's eerie.

  Christy Turlington

  Crazy, Thinking, Eerie

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• Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time.

  Debbie Ford

  Creativity, Creative, Soul

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• As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to the plot, they really were quite happy to be part of the adventure of not knowing.

  Radha Mitchell

  Travel, Adventure, Character

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• In the image of the lion made He kittens small and curious.

  Heinrich Heine

  Cat, Lions, Kitten

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.129

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• Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasé or focused on your crotch while jabbering about themselves, loners are curious, vigilant, full of surprises. They do not cling. Separate wherever they go, awake or asleep, they shimmer with the iridescence of hidden things seldom seen.

  Anneli Rufus

  Being Alone, Solitude, Loner

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• It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical folly have been such as caused acute suffering to the patient. When anesthetics were discovered, pious people considered them an attempt to evade the will of God. It was pointed out, however, that when God extracted Adam's rib He put him into a deep sleep. This proved that anesthetics are all right for men; women, however, ought to suffer, because of the curse of Eve.

  Bertrand Russell

  Pain, Sleep, Science

  Bertrand Russell (1972). “Atheism: collected essays, 1943-1949”, Arno Pr

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• "Do you want my honest opinion?" People ask. I say, "Yes," for I'm curious. So they give me their honest opinion, And I - well, I'm always furious.

  Richard Armour

  Honesty, People, Giving

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• I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Long, Nine, Facts

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1089, Open Road Media

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• I remember noticing, when I had my babies, how much I liked them, and not just loved them, but I was really into them. I knew I was going to be curious about them, and up for the mayhem ahead.

  Tilda Swinton

  Baby, Motherhood, Remember

  "Tilda Swinton: 'I didn't speak for five years'" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2011.

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• Train yourselves. Don't wait to be fed knowledge out of a book. Get out and seek it. Make explorations. Do your own research work. Train your hands and your mind. Become curious. Invent your own problems and solve them. You can see things going on all about you. Inquire into them. Seek out answers to your own questions. There are many phenomena going on in nature the explanation of which cannot be found in books. Find out why these phenomena take place. Information a boy gets by himself is enormously more valuable than that which is taught to him in school.

  Irving Langmuir

  Book, Teaching, School

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• It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.

  Ernst Mayr

  Science, Curiosity, Branches

  Ernst Mayr (1982). “The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance”

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• Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide,
  First strip off all her equipage of Pride,
  Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,
  Or Learning's Luxury or idleness,
  Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain
  Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.

  Alexander Pope

  Pain, Learning, Pride

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.202

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• You will be astonished when I tell you what this curious play of carbon amounts to. A candle will burn some four, five, six, or seven hours. What, then, must be the daily amount of carbon going up into the air in the way of carbonic acid! ... Then what becomes of it? Wonderful is it to find that the change produced by respiration ... is the very life and support of plants and vegetables that grow upon the surface of the earth.

  Michael Faraday

  Life, Growing Up, Science

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• It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious. This is true not only for those who have not previously been acquainted with the problem, but also for those who have worked over it for years.

  Edwin Land

  Science, Years, Research

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• The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.

  H. L. Mencken

  Religious, Religion, Atheism

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.80, Vintage

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• Curiosity has ... proven to be a great ingredient in resilience, a trait particularly valuable in an extended economic downturn. Resilient people aren't made of steel; they just provide themselves with more options, and those options come from a curious mind.

  Chip Conley

  People, Curiosity, Resilience

  Chip Conley (2012). “Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• I've tried really hard to care about things that were very different from my parents. I was curious if I could care about [money] on some fundamental level, and I couldn't. That wasn't the metric of success I wanted in my life. I've talked about this to my friends who are doctors and whose parents are doctors, or who are lawyers and their parents are lawyers. It's a funny thing to realize I feel called to this work both as a daughter and also as someone who believes I have contributions to make.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Mother, Daughter, Believe

  "Chelsea Clinton Says She Doesn't 'Care About' Money" by Hunter Walker, www.businessinsider.com. June 23, 2014.

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• The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time.

  Carl Jung

  Astrology, Facts, Coincidence

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• For dash and gallantry the bloodthirsty Scots, Australians and Canadians led the way, with the impetuous Irish close behind. The Australian to my mind were the most aggressive, and managed to keep their form in spite of their questionable discipline. Out of the line they were undoubtedly difficult to handle, but once in it they loved a fight. They were a curious mixture of toughness and sentimentality.

  Adrian Carton de Wiart

  Military, Fighting, Discipline

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• The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation.

  James Cook

  Tattoo, Speculation, Subjects

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