Curious Quotes - Page 39

• it is a curious fact that camels walk more quickly and straighter to the sound of singing.

  Rosita Forbes

  Singing, Sound, Camels

  Rosita Forbes (1921). “The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara”

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• One of the most important keys to acting is curiosity. I am curious to the point of being nosy. What that means is you want to devour lives. You're eager to put on their shoes and wear their clothes and have them become a part of you. All people contain mystery, and when you act, you want to plumb that mystery until everything is known to you.

  Meryl Streep

  Mean, Keys, Shoes

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

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• The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  School, Age, Enlightenment

  Twitter post from Apr 23, 2014

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• You have to understand that people feel threatened by a writer.  It's very curious. He knows something they don't know.  He knows how to write, and that's a subtle, disturbing quality he has.  Some directors without even knowing it, resent the writer in the same way Bob Hope might resent the fact he ain't funny without twelve guys writing the jokes.  The director knows the script he is carrying around on the set every day was written by someone, and that's just not something that all directors easily digest.

  Ernest Lehman

  Writing, Knowing, People

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• I hear what people say, I read all the reviews, all the blogs, and I am always curious to hear it, because you can't always listen to the good press, you have to hear the bad press, too.

  Eli Roth

  People, Reviews, Bad Press

  "MIPTV: Eli Roth on His Netflix TV Debut 'Hemlock Grove' (Q&A)". Interview with Rhonda Richford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 10, 2013.

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• [On writer George Moore:] ... I grew curious about Moore. Yet when at the rehearsal of 'Countess Cathleen' in some dark by-way of London, I was told he was present, I cannot recall any form, only an irritation in the dusty atmosphere.

  Susan Mitchell

  Dark, Irritation, Atmosphere

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• in this curious world there are certain beings to whom it is given to say of all things with naïve faith, not 'I shall seek,' but 'I shall find.

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  Confidence, World, Given

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2008). “Max (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.130, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The darling schemes and fondest hopes of man are frequently frustrated by time. While sagacity contrives, patience matures, and labor industriously executes, disappointment laughs at the curious fabric, formed by so many efforts, and gay with so many brilliant colors, and, while the artists imagine the work arrived at the moment of completion, brushes away the beautiful web, and leaves nothing behind.

  Timothy Dwight V

  Beautiful, Disappointment, Gay

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• ... where do they go when they die? We hear of the elephant graveyards, where the elephants go to die, but how much more curious it is that birds are not falling out of the sky all the time, on our heads, at our feet, dying and falling and flopping to the ground. I rarely see a dead bird on the ground.

  Sophy Burnham

  Fall, Sky, Elephants

  Sophy Burnham (2011). “For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners”, p.26, Penguin

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• All children are curious, I think, but not all adults are.

  Anne Roe

  Children, Thinking, Curiosity

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• Each community has a curious and distorted image of itself which is always flattering.

  Carl Eckart

  Community, Flattering

  Carl Eckart (1984). “Our Modern Idol, Mathematical Science”

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• Busy, curious, thirsty fly,
  Drink with me and drink as I!
  Freely welcome to my cup,
  Could'st thou sip and sip it up;
  Make the most of life you may;
  Life is short and wears away.

  William Oldys

  Life Is Short, May, Cups

  William Oldys, “An Anacreontick”

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• What curious little corners of folly are to be found in even the sanest brain!

  Marie of Romania

  Brain, Mind, Littles

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• My grandmother had a picture of herself as a close-lipped, silent, reserved individual without curiosity, who never asked personal questions. Actually, of course, she was a talkative, jolly, interminably curious woman, who loved people, and who enjoyed the personal details of their lives almost as much as they did themselves.

  Molly Picon

  Grandmother, People, Curiosity

  Molly Picon (1962). “So Laugh A Little”

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• I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing.

  Anna Kavan

  Feelings, Confusing, Planes

  Anna Kavan, Brian Wilson Aldiss (1990). “My madness: the selected writings of Anna Kavan”

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• The man has a curious inborn conviction of his own superiority which is quite unshakeable. All his life he has bullied and browbeaten those around him by his high-and-mightiness and his atrocious temper. As a boy he terrorized his entire family by his tantrums, when, if thwarted, he would throw himself on the floor and yell till he went blue in the face. It has been much the same ever since. Everyone's terrified of his rages. He has only to start grinding his teeth, and people fall flat before him.

  Anna Kavan

  Fall, Boys, Men

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• Researchers measure that the average major-league pitcher puts 40 pounds of pressure on his shoulder by cocking and releasing the baseball. Curious how much more the body could take, those same researchers tested cadavers. The shoulder broke apart at just beyond 40 pounds.

  Tom Verducci

  Baseball, Average, League

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• We're cognizant, curious beings, capable of philosophical thought, nuclear physics, repeating Nerf weapons, global consciousness, Glade air fresheners, and sentient automobiles. But we're assholes first.

  Nick Offerman

  Philosophical, Air, Firsts

  Nick Offerman (2013). “Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living”, p.47, Penguin

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• It is curious that we pay statesmen for what they say, not for what they do; and judge of them from what they do, not from what they say. Hence they have one code of maxims for profession and another for practice, and make up their consciences as the Neapolitans do their beds, with one set of furniture for show and another for use.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Practice, Judging, Bed

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• There are some communities that feel you shouldn't give them the publicity, because it's just going to make people curious. There are communities who feel we need to fight them tooth and nail. What we have seen, though, is that ignoring them does not make them go away. If we sit back and let them have free reign, we lose members of our community.

  Bill Vaughan

  Communication, Fighting, People

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• Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth
  With such a full and unwithdrawing hand,
  Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks,
  Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable,
  But all to please and sate the curious taste?

  John Milton

  Nature, Hands, Sea

  John Milton (2003). “The Major Works”, p.63, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A role can go from being a babe to anything, as long as it's something that makes me curious.

  Connie Nielsen

  Long, Roles, Babe

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• It is a curious fact that personal possessions take on fictitious values and exceptional charms when the owner, no matter how generous, is faced with giving them away or even selling them (which usually amounts to the same thing).

  Marjorie Hillis

  Giving, Matter, Facts

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• Clarice has a curious chemical reaction to boredom and the result can be similar to dynamite in the hands of a lunatic.

  Anne Morice

  Hands, Boredom, Chemical Reactions

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• Television is a very highly constructed, and edited, and censored, and tailored, and marketed reality. But I'm not judgemental about it. I don't have anything against television. I just personally don't feel curious.

  Jodhi May

  Reality, Judgemental, Television

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