Curious Quotes
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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 -
Actors, I think, are all the same. Both Korean actors and American actors are all very sensitive people, and they are all curious to know what the director thinks of them and how they are evaluated, and they try to satisfy the director. And they like it if you listen carefully to their opinions and accept them.
Park Chan-wook
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It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.
Stephen Hopkins -
The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.
Vincente Minnelli -
Not to the curious or impatient soulThat in the start, demands the end be shown,And at each step, stops waiting for a sign;But to the tireless toiler toward the goal,Shall the great miracles of God be knownAnd life revealed, immortal and divine.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
One of the most important things in politics is you've got to keep your mind infinitely curious and alive to what is happening differently.
Tony Blair -
With Patreon, it feels like I have an audience now who really appreciates everything that I want to do and who are quite flexible and curious about it.
Judith Holofernes Wir sind Helden -
I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.
Terry Gross
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For more than twenty years by my own work and personal initiative, I have gathered from all the old streets of Vieux Paris photographic plates, 18 x 24 format, artistic documents of the beautiful civil architecture of the 16th to the 19th century: the old hôtels, historic or curious houses, beautiful facades, beautiful doors, beautiful woodwork, door knockers, old fountains This vast artistic and documentary collection is today complete. I can truthfully say that I possess all of Vieux Paris.
Eugene Atget -
What a curious power words have.
Tadeusz Borowski -
It's not that I'm using my life to put on screen or in my acting, it's that, when you're living in the world, you're exposed to stories, to people, to things that feel foreign and unfamiliar. And I'm curious about those things, me personally.
Sarah Jessica Parker -
Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me, and drink as I.
William Oldys -
My mum was too busy raising four of us to encourage my hopes. But I'm glad I had the upbringing I did. It made me a worrier and a thoughtful, curious person.
Ellie Goulding -
...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms.
Jim Morrison The Doors
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It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.
Vinoba Bhave -
It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is very ill-paid work.
E. Nesbit -
So many car commercials are shot in the Salt Flats, and so much great imagery comes out of that place, but I've never been there, and I'm curious.
Casey Neistat -
It was curious how life seemed to weave a pattern that was not in the least haphazard, as it so often seemed to be.
R. F. Delderfield -
The chef has kids complaining to their parents the food they get in school is better than what they get at home. He's turned this group of kids into curious, adventurous eaters.
Marion Nestle -
The most important thing is what you already do. It's being authentic. It's being curious, trying to discover gifts.
Anthony Robbins
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I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
I guess I'm a pretty curious person. I like doing new things. I like being challenged. I'm competitive. Trying to beat my personal best.
Adina Porter -
I would say I'm a humanist. I like that. I mean, I don't claim to know anything, but I'm curious about it all. I'm always fascinated when people really fervently believe, because I have such a hard time believing anything.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes -
It's curious and ridiculous how much the gaze of a prudish and painfully chaste man touched by love can sometimes express and that precisely at a moment when the man would of course sooner be glad to fall through the earth than to express anything with a word or a look.
Fyodor Dostoevsky