Curious Quotes - Page 19

• Curious how often you Humans manage to obtain that which you do not want.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Want, Mr Spock, Illogical

  "Fictional character: Mr. Spock". TV Series "Star Trek" ("Errand of Mercy", March 23, 1967), www.imdb.com. 1966-1969.

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• Science is a match that man has just got alight. He thought he was in a room - in moments of devotion, a temple - and that his light would be reflected from and display walls inscribed with wonderful secrets and pillars carved with philosophical systems wrought into harmony. It is a curious sensation, now that the preliminary splutter is over and the flame burns up clear, to see his hands and just a glimpse of himself and the patch he stands on visible, and around him, in place of all that human comfort and beauty he anticipated - darkness still.

  H. G. Wells

  Wall, Philosophical, Men

  H.G. Wells (2009). “The Island of Doctor Moreau”, p.212, Broadview Press

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• When people came to Christ accusing a person of doing wrong, the Master could not think of anything else but forgiveness. For he did not see in the wrongdoer what the others saw. To distinguish between right and wrong is not the work of an ordinary mind, and the curious thing is that the more ignorant a person is, the more ready he is to do so.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Thinking, People, Ignorant

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• For it is a curious fact that though human beings have such imperfect means of communication, that they can only say 'good to eat' when they mean 'beautiful' and the other way about, they will yet endure ridicule and misunderstanding rather than keep any experience to themselves.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beautiful, Communication, Mean

  Virginia Woolf (2014). “Orlando”, p.122, OUP Oxford

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• Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

  Bill Gates

  Kids, Students, Percentages

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• If someone was making a movie about F1 in the last six months, they wouldn't need to add a Hollywood ending. If they do make that movie, it's got to be 'The Curious Case Of ,' where I've lived my life backwards. I'd like Johnny Depp to play me but he wouldn't be quite right.

  Jenson Button

  Play, Needs, Six Months

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• I'm curious by individuals that embrace half a story so they can justify how incomplete they feel about their own self worth.

  Dane Cook

  Self Worth, Stories, Half

  Twitter post from Jun 9, 2013

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• After all these years of wandering around as a street photographer and a journalist, I decided that this world is such a curious, screwed up place so full of contradictions... that I couldn't look at it any more in the raw form without trying to find some way of balancing it in a more philosophical context - less in a reportorial manner and more in an artistic one.

  Burk Uzzle

  Philosophical, Years, Trying

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• Everything in a wide sense is a kind of a self-portrait. It's just the way you see things and you're curious about certain things and just excited about them.

  Jurgen Teller

  Self, Portraits, Way

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• You'll get my assault weapon when you pry it out of my curious six-year-old's cold dead hands.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Hands, Years, Assault Weapons

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• Another way to be awakened by the beauty and complexity of the word is to get a dog. Small Things like a plant that I had passed a thousand time and never given a second thought to. But the dog is curious. And the dog stops and wants to smell this and smell that. And the dog makes you look and focus and take the time.

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Smell, Focus

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

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• There's really no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward - opening up new doors and doing new things - because we're curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We're always exploring and experimenting. We call it Imagineering - the blending of creative and imagination with technical know-how.

  Walt Disney

  Moving Forward, Opening Up, Doors

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• I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it's just tough and almost emotionally violent - for anyone, I think - to see your personal life summarized in a sentence.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Thinking, People, Climate

  "Ryan Reynolds Talks Blake Lively, Having A Big Family" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2013.

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• I'm pretty much an open book. I've pretty much talked about anything I'm going through onstage. Between interviews and curious fans, I've been asked everything. And I always give answers. I don't shy away from anything.

  Kevin Hart

  Book, Giving, Fans

  "The “Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain” Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. July 9, 2013.

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• I'm curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.

  Biz Stone

  Writing, Age, Care

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm genuinely curious about people, and I'm always interested when people do share with me. But I would not want someone to share something with me and then after the fact feel uncomfortable or regret it.

  Alison Rosen

  Regret, People, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I’m very curious in regards to "The Hateful Eight" specifically about the blocking of the movie. Because in comedies, we don’t block. We basically like have to position the actors’ bodies in the way that is most conducive to filming both of them simultaneously.

  Seth Rogen

  Block, Eight, Actors

  "Seth Rogen, Jennifer Jason Leigh on Challenges of ‘Steve Jobs,’ ‘The Hateful Eight’". Interview with Jennifer Jason Leigh, variety.com. December 29, 2015.

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• I've always been so curious about death. With my personal beliefs as a Baha'i, we believe that birth and death are very similar and that we're here on this Earth to develop all of the things we can't see.

  Justin Baldoni

  Believe, Earth, Belief

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

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• Americans are curious about the texture of everyday life in the Middle East because they rarely get to see it. I wanted readers to feel like they were sitting around the dinner table with me and my friends, hearing what average people really say and really think, [where] the dinner table is the best place to find out.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Thinking, Average, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground.

  Friedrich Engels

  Movement, Facts, Free Love

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “On Religion”, p.206, Courier Corporation

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• Yeah, and the language the "we" has, and the character the "we" has. Because that was the part of the book that I didn't plan out, but the part that I was most curious about as I was writing. You know what you're doing, but you're sometimes still sort of curious as you're writing it.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Book, Writing, Character

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As long as I am still interested and curious I enjoy getting up in the morning, but I can't say I have a happy smile on my face 24/7.

  Harriet Walter

  Morning, Long, Faces

  "My body & soul". Interview with Catherine Rapley, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2009.

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• Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible. And it is curious, although edifying, that the plays we revere, century after century, are the tragedies. In them, and in them alone, lies the belief-optimistic, if you will, in the perfectibility of man.

  Arthur Miller

  Lying, Optimistic, Men

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.10, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Besides the money aspect, I guess I was curious about sex work. In the way that most people are, but also because ever since I was a teen I had read feminist writers like Dworkin and Mackinnon and the way they wrote about sex work had an enormous impact on me. Was it really as horrible as they said?

  Marie Calloway

  Sex, Impact, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I felt a particular attachment, naturally, to the Superman character and really dug deep, but at the same time, I am a passionate fan, be it Star Wars, be it the entire Marvel catalog, be it the DC catalog, or the original thinking at Pixar. I'm a fan first, so I'm always curious to see the way people express themselves and how it's being done.

  Joseph McGinty Nichol

  Stars, War, Character

  Source: collider.com

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