Curiosity Shop Quotes

#1. I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

Anne Rice

#2. Never did get my curiosity cured,' she said. 'Some people sit around and wait for the world to poke them. Right here in this old curiosity shop of a world, they say, 'Poke me, world,' Well, you have to keep the challenges coming on. Make them up if necessary.

William Least Heat-Moon

#3. In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.

Robert Benchley

#4. We're enveloped in pitch black. "Wait here," I whisper.
"Are you getting your ax?"
"Handcuffs."
"Kinky. But, okay, I'll try it.

Stephanie Perkins

#5. As Secretary of State I had the chance to make the world a little safer and life a little better for children in America and across the globe, including in China. I viewed it as the opportunity and the responsibility of a lifetime. That

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#6. Most of us give little thought to the importance or the meaning of a homeland. Not until we ourselves are foreigners fighting for acceptance, stripped of all ranks and titles and viewed as inferiors, do we miss that privilege.

Oksana Marafioti

#7. He has not shown the special interest in reading that we should like to see but he likes shop work. George H. W. Bush's parents on his Andover application

H.W. Brands

#8. Growing up, I remember my parents feeling a little wary of 'The Simpsons.' This was the late eighties, and there was a wave of articles about TV shows that were bad for America. Then we all started watching it and loved it.

Mindy Kaling

#9. He brought in the bread, cheese, and beer, with many high encomiums upon their excellence.

Charles Dickens

#10. Dream a magnificent dream; now live it.

Debasish Mridha

#11. In a word, mythology is a search; it is something that combines a recurrent desire with a recurrent doubt, mixing

G.K. Chesterton

#12. The kundalini rises and the kundalini is hot, it's a hot energy. Sometimes you feel it cascading up your spine, and it's kind of searing or it's tingling, it almost feels sexual.

Frederick Lenz

#13. It was very quiet at the hotel, as if there had been a death in the family. When you have quit the Tour, nobody really knows what to say or do. ( ... ) Everything I'd previously achieved meant nothing; all I was now was a pro rider who couldn't finish the Tour de France.

David Millar

#14. Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him. (PSALM 34:8)

Lysa TerKeurst

#15. The younger generation gives me more respect than I could ever hope for.

Daryl Hall