Curious Quotes - Page 17

• I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious.

  Albert Einstein

  Genius

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• The owl is one of the most curious creatures. A bird that stays awake when the rest of the world sleeps. They can see in the dark. I find that so interesting, to be mired in reality when the rest of the world is dreaming. What does he see and what does he know that the rest of the world is missing?

  M.J. Rose

  Dream, Sleep, Dark

  M. J. Rose (2014). “Seduction: A Novel of Suspense”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not gay, im just liberal-curious

  Kevin Rudd

  Gay

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• My research suggests that when people get rebuffed they become frustrated and angry, but they would do better to become curious about the reason for the rejection. I also found that people assume that others are like them, operating under the same knowledge, beliefs, constraints and priorities. This mirror assumption makes it easier to speculate about why others act in the way they do, but sometimes the mirror assumption is wrong.

  Gary A. Klein

  Mirrors, People, Rejection

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• The best critics leave the reader curious to pursue something further, but still to let the reader have his or her own honest, unique opinion.

  Michael Hersch

  Unique, Honest, Opinion

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• I've always been curious what the negotiation is because obviously there's certain movies that every film wants a trailer on, like Star Wars, and I don't know how Disney makes the decisions as to what it does and doesn't put on there. I'm assuming that whatever movies are the same studio as the film get first priority, but then everybody else is fighting for the remaining spots.

  Simon Kinberg

  Stars, War, Fighting

  Source: collider.com

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• It is always wonderful to be a curious comet wandering in the galaxy of a good book.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Book, Wonderful, Comets

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• The Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. Skeptics and believers are alike. At this moment scientists and skeptics are the leading dogmatists. Advance in detail is admitted; fundamental novelty is barred. This dogmatic common sense is the death of philosophic adventure.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Adventure, Self, Common Sense

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• [I like to] engage with funny people, or weird people, or, you know, kind of off people. [Whereas when I meet] anybody who's ... normal ... I'm not curious, I'm not interested.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  People, Normal, Kind

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• I have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the clergy.

  Fred Hoyle

  Doe, Scientist, Claims

  Fred Hoyle (1981). “The universe: past and present reflections”

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• The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage - curiosity, creativity and memory. And that brain did something very special. It invented an idea called 'the future.'

  David Suzuki

  Memories, Creativity, Ideas

  Canada.com Interview, April 23, 2007.

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• I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn't understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

  Paul Auster

  Reading, Men, Important

  "American dreams" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2002.

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• Pardon the plug, but what I like most about Toronto is Metro Morning's audience. I think it's got to be the most multi-faceted, multi-lingual, omni-curious collection of plugged-in people I've ever encountered.

  Andy Barrie

  Morning, Thinking, People

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• The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious (though it helps), but the fact that no real writers ever lay down anything real in public-they work in solitude, they think hard, and their thoughts are rarely nice or 'friendly.'

  Andrei Codrescu

  Real, Nice, Thinking

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• If nature be regarded as the teacher and we poor human beings as her pupils, the human race presents a very curious picture. We all sit together at a lecture and possess the necessary principles for understanding it, yet we always pay more attention to the chatter of our fellow students than to the lecturer's discourse. Or, if our neighbor copies something down, we sneak it from him, stealing what he himself may have heard imperfectly, and add it to our own errors of spelling and opinion.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Teacher, Errors, Race

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• I have always read all my reviews, the bad along with the good (although you remember the bad much more than the good!). I am just too curious to see how it's playing with the audience, and I have a thick-enough skin to handle the less charitable assessments.

  Frank Spotnitz

  Assessment, Skins, Remember

  "‘The Man in the High Castle’ producer Frank Spotnitz on his Amazon pilot". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. February 2, 2015.

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• Stay open and curious, and realize that the best is yet to come.

  Wendy Lustbader

  Best Is Yet To Come, Realizing

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• For me, storytelling is all about how we learn about each other. I'm so curious about people, what makes them tick, why they are who they are, and how we all relate to each other, despite the fact that we may not think that we do.

  Thomas Sadoski

  Thinking, People, May

  Source: collider.com

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• The sense of it may come with watching a flock of cedar waxwings eating wild grapes in the top of the woods on a November afternoon. Everything they do is leisurely. They pick the grapes with a curious deliberation, comb their feathers, converse in high windy whistles. Now and then one will fly out and back in a sort of dancing flight full of whimsical flutters and turns. They are like farmers loafing in their own fields on Sunday. Though they have no Sundays, their days are full of sabbaths.

  Wendell Berry

  Sunday, Dancing, Cedars

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• It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and naturally as a door on its hinges.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Doors, Events, Looks

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1656, Delphi Classics

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• For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin.

  Pierre Boulez

  Curiosity, Coffins, Ifs

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• It is curious to be treated by the old-fashioned people as a criminal because my thoughts and ways are beyond them.

  Edward Elgar

  People, Criminals, Way

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• I was curious. Here was a character where I just didn't know how they were going to write him into 13 episodes without it being one note. My fear was that I didn't want to join something where I was just going to be this prop and this mustache twirling character.

  Shawn Hatosy

  Writing, Character, Mustache

  Source: collider.com

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• We all have obligations and duties toward our fellow men. But it does seem curious enough that in modern neurotic society, men's energies are consumed in making a living and rarely in living itself. It takes a lot of courage for a man to declare, with clarity and simplicity, that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.

  Lin Yutang

  Men, Simplicity, Fellow Man

  Yutang Lin (1962). “The pleasures of a nonconformist”

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• It's curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you're saving money.

  Rand Paul

  Saving, Claims, Billions

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