Curious Quotes - Page 38

• The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to! . It is best to let him come to, and feel his own helplessness.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Mother, Animal, Hands

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• The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.

  Terry Eagleton

  Past, Philosopher, Fixed

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• I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions. Well, why? People would say, it's never been done. It's never been done does not mean that it can't be done.

  Kathy Ireland

  Mean, People, Doe

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• I don't like the slasher stuff, myself, but I do like the psychological horror of Roman Polanski and that world. But, it's curious to me why people do like to be afraid.

  Dylan McDermott

  People, World, Stuff

  "Dylan McDermott Talks AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, His New Role on the Show, Why the Show Resonates with Viewers and Returning for Season 3". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 20, 2012.

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• I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.

  Charles A. Beard

  Men, Challenges, Humanity

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• I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.

  Alfred Hershey

  Happiness, Awards, Years

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• I'm ever curious about the world.

  David Baldacci

  Vivid Imagination, World

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• I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

  David Baldacci

  Writing, Vivid Imagination, World

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• I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.

  Dan Chaon

  Grief, Loss, Years

  "Staying Awake with Dan Chaon". Interview with Clare Stein, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 6, 2012.

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• I have to admit that 'Psychology Today' was one of the first magazines I started reading, back when I was 13 or 14, because I was the kind of kid that was curious about the mysterious human mind - I hoped to learn about telekenisis, multiple personalities, psychosis, and various other cool and terrible things that happened inside people's heads.

  Dan Chaon

  Reading, Kids, Psychosis

  Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. February 15, 2012.

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• There was never any career plan. When 'Red Dwarf' started I thought we were doing a curious little sitcom on BBC2, I didn't think I was becoming an actor. I didn't see that 21 years later I'd still be talking about it, let alone filming a new one. For me everything's always been an accident.

  Craig Charles

  Thinking, Careers, Dwarves

  Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2009.

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• IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.

  Edward Carpenter

  College, Should Have, Law

  Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

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• I am curious, I love making discoveries, travelling, speaking with people, go shopping.

  Maria Grazia Cucinotta

  Discovery, Shopping, People

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• I'm a curious person. I pursue things based on what sparks my interest. I'm not thinking about what role I play. I don't have to be a movie director or this or that. I just want to be part of projects and places that are of interest to me.

  Roman Coppola

  Thinking, Play, Directors

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was an actor in some movies a long time ago, I was so curious about all the camera movements - why is the camera placed here, and why does it move like this? And why the set and the background, the color? It's a lot of questions for me to ask, because I was so interested, not only in acting, but also the whole process of filmmaking.

  Stephen Chow

  Movie, Moving, Color

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 6, 2005.

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• I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

  Susan Cain

  Human Nature, Humans

  "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking," by Susan Cain". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. January 26, 2012.

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• I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right.

  Susan Cain

  Jobs, Writing, Lucky

  "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking," by Susan Cain". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. January 26, 2012.

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• I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.

  Alan Davies

  Play, Mind, Roles

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• Everyone always wants to talk about 'True Blood' and 'Battlestar Galactica' - no one's even interested in 'Durham County.' It blew my mind when I came to Canada and no one asked me about the show. So many people didn't even know about it. They didn't even know it was on the air! It's very curious to me.

  Michelle Forbes

  Air, Blood, People

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• I'm really curious about the memory of Nixon for people who grew up under Clinton. What do people remember of him? In his day, the definition of a conservative right-wing president is more like a centrist in our own time. He's also one of our funnier presidents - just a really good character to write about.

  Austin Grossman

  Memories, Character, Writing

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• I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down to earth, gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of their own lives and have never forgotten the people and organizations that helped them dream bigger than their circumstances should have allowed.

  Jennifer Garner

  Mother, Dream, Dad

  "What Makes a Good Man? A Conversation With Mark Shriver". Interview with Mark K. Shriver, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2012.

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• Kids are naturally inventive and curious and creative, but most adults have had that beaten out of them. Writing is a form of play; you have to get rid of all those internal censors that we adults have, the things that say, 'Don't go there, that's not allowed.

  Monica Ali

  Writing, Kids, Play

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• That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.

  Jennifer Egan

  Writing, Opposites, Way

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• 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 than a feeling, that's the power of love.

  Huey Lewis

  Love, Men, White

  Song: The Power Of Love

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• [A]ll the ingenious men, and all the scientific men, and all the fanciful men, in the world,... could never invent, if all their wits were boiled into one, anything so curious and so ridiculous as a lobster.

  Charles Kingsley

  Science, Men, Lobster

  Charles Kingsley (2013). “The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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