Top 100 Curiously Quotes
#1. Curiously, the most serious religious people, or the most concerned scholars, those who constantly read the Bible as a matter of professional or pious duty, can often manage to evade a radically involved dialogue with the book they are questioning.
Thomas Merton
#2. We're all so curiously alone, but it's important to keep making signals through the glass
John Marsden
#3. No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.
Gregory Benford
#4. With characteristic exuberance Tom named this curiously constructed
house Castel des Tours saunz Nowmbre, which means the Castle of
Innumerable Towers. David Montefiore had counted the innumerable
towers in 1764. There were fourteen of them.
Susanna Clarke
#5. I felt curiously aloof from my own self. No temptations maddened me. The plump, glossy little Eskimo girls with their fish smell, hideous raven hair and guinea pig faces, evoked even less desire in me than Dr. Johnson had.
Vladimir Nabokov
#6. Any statements from the parents may seem like criticism or judgment by the child or adolescent. It's very important that the child or adolescent does most of the talking and the parent asks questions curiously to understand the perspective of the child or adolescent.
Timothy Carey
#7. one dream had him chased by a giant pumpkin wielding knives, while a later dream had him chased by a giant knife wielding pumpkins. The first had been scarier, yet curiously it was the second that jerked him from his slumber.
Drew Hayes
#8. Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.
Eugene Delacroix
#9. Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities, about which we felt so helplessly speechless.
Azar Nafisi
#10. Curiously, for instance, the drop in violent crime is most pronounced in cities with high immigrant populations.
Matt Taibbi
#11. Curiously, she is not afraid, knowing as she does that love is mostly the avoidance of hurt, and furthermore, she is accustomed to obstacles, and how they can be overcome by readjusting her glance or crowding her concerns into a shadowy corner.
Carol Shields
#12. It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
Joseph Conrad
#13. Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.
Ken Burns
#14. Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and put out of conceit with themselves.
Elizabeth Wordsworth
#15. curiously enough, it is the man who likes things as they are who really makes them better. The
G.K. Chesterton
#16. Quentin looked curiously around. "This is a neat room," he said.
"Yes, it is," I replied, directing my compliment toward the distant ceiling. Everyone deserves a few compliments. Even a building.
Seanan McGuire
#17. The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.
George Eliot
#18. He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.
Frances Wright
#19. My dick and I reached an understanding." "Yeah? And what's that?" I ask curiously. He shrugs. "We both like you.
Sarina Bowen
#20. Good buildings make and are made by their settings, and they are appropriately different in different locations. Climate, culture, topography and materials have helped create regional architectural languages that seem curiously right for their locations and for all times.
Jaquelin T. Robertson
#21. Four other pieces of equipment that most senior officers came to regard as among the most vital to our success in Africa and Europe were the bulldozer, the jeep, the 2
ton truck, and the C-47 airplane. Curiously, none of these is designed for combat.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#22. How curiously one is changed by the addition, even at a distance, of a friend.
How useful an office one's friends perform when they recall us. Yet how
painful to be recalled, to be mitigated, to have one's self adulterated, mixed up,
become part of another.
Virginia Woolf
#23. People are going to eat you alive over this article. And the witch even included the fact of where you're currently living." "I have an ace in the hole." "What's that?" she said curiously. "I don't give a shit.
David Baldacci
#24. Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
Irwin Shaw
#25. Fenway Park, in Boston, is a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus, like the inside of an old-fashioned peeping-type Easter egg.
John Updike
#26. I'm to be whipped and admitted to the Arcanum'
He looked at be curiously,trying to see if I was making a joke,
I'm sorry? Congratulations?Do I buy you a bandage or a bear?
Patrick Rothfuss
#27. Remembering her own narrow single bed at home, she added without thinking, "Someone could get lost in that bed."
Valois laughed, surprising Delta and she looked curiously at him. His eyes twinkling wickedly, the Frenchman said, "Perhaps some company would relieve you of that fear.
Brooke Templar
#28. He had a curiously stunted sense of humor and loved practical jokes that veered dangerously close to cruelty. Once on a hot day he filled a friend's water jug with kerosene and mirthfully stood by as the friend took a mighty swig. The friend ended up in the hospital.
Bill Bryson
#29. You going to watch my butt all day, or are you going to join me?" asked my mate.
"What if I had said I was going to watch your butt all day?" I asked curiously as I opened the door an stepped into the hot water.
"I've been considering belly-dancing lessons," he told me in a serious voice.
Patricia Briggs
#30. The Angel's eyes widened curiously and her lips parted. a deep colour swept into her cheeks. She had intended to arouse him. She had more than succeeded. She was too young to know that in the effort to rouse a man, women frequently kindle fires that they neither can quench or control.
Gene Stratton-Porter
#31. Sometimes; I am caught in my building of emotions -
but my prison has, curiously, no bars -
and so I think, that escape, is possible at any time.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#32. Under a tuft of jet-black hair over his forehead they could see a curiously shaped cut, like a bolt of lightning.
J.K. Rowling
#33. English is a curiously expressive language. Womb, room, tomb. It sums up living in three words.
Anthony Burgess
#34. While out on the perimeter, women discovered the freedom of badlands. They were curiously free to invent, without having to liberate themselves from the forms and rewards of the cultural norm.
Janet Fitch
#35. Curiously, directing my own films have made me more tolerant and patient. I've always been an extremely impatient actor. Waiting around drove me nuts. But now I'm much more sympathetic to a director's struggle.
Robert Redford
#36. But Anne, do you love him?" I asked curiously.
The curve of her hood hid all but the corner of her smile. "I am a fool to own it, but I am in a fever for his touch.
Philippa Gregory
#37. What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
Walter Pater
#38. Charlie Ledley - curiously uncertain Charlie Ledley - was odd in his belief that the best way to make money on Wall Street was to seek out whatever it was that Wall Street believed was least likely to happen, and bet on its happening.
Michael Lewis
#39. A small child being dragged to bed peered curiously at me as it passed, then waved. We waved back, not being entirely sure how else to respond to small creatures like that.
Kate Griffin
#40. He watched her curiously from below, feeling as someone might feel watching a butterfly sit nearby, afraid to scare it off with a sound of voice or an abrupt movement.
Alexandra Engellmann
#41. The figure in the doorway ducked; the brick hit the wall, and Luke straightened up and looked at her curiously. I hope when we're married, that's not the way you greet me every day when I come home, he said.
Cassandra Clare
#43. What remains of your past if you didn't allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.
David Rakoff
#44. Blake eyed me curiously, but it was Archer who planted a hand on my shoulder, guiding me forward so I wasn't behind them, like I was going to stab them in there backs with my invisible knife.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#45. We made a deal. I can top, but not bottom."
"Are you secretly a gay man?" Zachary eyed her curiously.
Tiffany Reisz
#46. Passion is curiously exclusive and the need for it irresistible, while promiscuity is passionless--a mere collector's obsession.
John Peter Nettl
#47. While I read, the Commander sits and watches me doing it, without speaking but also without taking his eyes off me. This watching is a curiously sexual act, and I feel undressed while he does it.
Margaret Atwood
#48. What are you thinking?" he asked curiously.
Ilooked up into his deep gold eyes, became befuddled, and, as usual, blurted out the truth.
"I'm trying to figure out what you are.
Stephenie Meyer
#49. What do they do to students at the University who eavesdrop?" Bast asked curiously.
"I haven't the slightest idea. I was never caught. I think making you sit and listen to the rest of my story should be punishment enough.
Patrick Rothfuss
#50. I do like Burial; he's so curiously clumsy, you can't help but be moved. It's so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.
Brian Eno
#51. I passed under an arch out of that region of slabs and columns, and wandered through the open country; sometimes following the visible road, but sometimes leaving it curiously to tread across meadows where only occasional ruins bespoke the ancient presence of a forgotten road.
H.P. Lovecraft
#53. Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.
Douglas Adams
#54. For those at home, as well as for those in battle, war is curiously disabling. The mere realization that one's country is at war poisons the bloodstream, creates an incessant mood of worry that infiltrates even the most casual moments.
Roger Rosenblatt
#55. We must not inquire too curiously into motives,' he interposed, in his measured way. 'Miss Brooke knows that they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air.
George Eliot
#56. It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously long time for new ideas to become current, and the older men who ought to be capable of taking them in freely, will not do so through prejudice.
Francis Galton
#57. The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.
Charles Darwin
#58. He hams his Brummie accent, I tell myself, the way so many ex-pats ham their lost identity. The moustache is a pose. Yet, he hams this unpredictable matey belligerence, this curiously Midlands attitude. Colin is home away from home, I reflect, even if not the home you ever really liked.
Tim Parks
#60. Here was the endless prairie, so rich in its blessings of fertility, but also full of great loneliness--a form of freedom which curiously affected the minds of strangers, especially those to whom the Lord had given a sad heart.
O.E. Rolvaag
#61. Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader.
Vladimir Nabokov
#62. Wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting philosophical exercise, but also curiously pointless, since evil and death happened, regardless of the why and the how and the what-it-meant.
Joe Hill
#63. No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had.
Donald Sutherland
#64. On paper curiously shaped
Scribblers to-day of every sort,
In verses Valentines ycled'd
To Venus chime their annual court.
I too will swell the motley throng,
And greet the all auspicious day,
Whose privilege permits my song
My love this secret to convey.
Henry George Bohn
#65. Curiously, only in sports do we agree to eschew technological advances, making rules, for example, to limit the power potential of baseball bats. We understand that technology will ruin our games, but we do not understand that it can also ruin cultures.
Gene Logsdon
#66. They were in every colour sweets can be, such as Not-Really-Raspberry Red, Fake-Lemon Yellow, Curiously-Chemical Orange, Some-Kind-of-Acidy Green and Who-Knows-What Blue.
Terry Pratchett
#67. Sean Corcoran and his wife saw a large, dark creature that swam across the lake before alighting on a rock and standing on its back legs, giving it a height of about 1.7 m. Curiously, its flipper-like extremities were red or orange.
Darren Naish
#68. No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die.
Charles Dickens
#69. No need for confusion, my dear Mulgrave [ ... ] Beautiful wine and sour vinegar come from exactly the same source. Curiously if one leaves a bottle of wine open for long enough it will become vinegar. Happily in this house wine never survives long enough to go bad.
David Gemmell
#70. I have also noted, over the course of our friendship, that his hearing is curiously erratic. He can hear a lizard-bird scratching itself half a mile away, but occasionally seems unable to hear the politest of requests no matter how loudly I shout them at him.
Robert Asprin
#71. The diction used about Christ has been, and perhaps wisely, sweet and submissive. But the diction used by Christ is quite curiously gigantesque; it is full of camels leaping through needles and mountains hurled into the sea. Morally
G.K. Chesterton
#72. I let quiet shape what I say, then realize there is nothing that can be fully said - the reason for gestures and eyes and art. Always something waiting, wanting, expectant, yet also curiously not.
Meia Geddes
#73. You still love her?" he asked curiously.
Carmine nodded. "I think I always will. Regardless of all this bullshit, she'll always be my hummingbird.
J.M. Darhower
#74. Hello girls! My boobies are curiously sticking their heads up, trying to see what vagina is so breathlessly talking about.
A.O. Peart
#75. He was no dragon, Dany thought, curiously calm. Fire cannot kill a dragon
George R R Martin
#76. For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
E. M. Forster
#77. The last book I picked up had a picture of the Stranger on the front cover. Although his eyes were not nearly as beautiful in my dream state, they still took my breath away. I opened it up curiously and there was one word written in a large, bolded font: FATE.
Markelle Grabo
#78. Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun's green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#79. If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Barbara Demick
#80. History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#81. An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.
Andrew Greeley
#82. Jamie cocked her head, looking at Greta curiously. "You know, I used to think you were snarling at me, but now I see that . . . it's actually your face.
Suzanne Wright
#83. The mark of a certain kind of genius is the ability and energy to keep returning to the same task relentlessly, imaginatively, curiously, for a lifetime. Never give up and go on to something else; never get distracted and be diverted to something else.
Eugene H. Peterson
#84. One of my lifelong hobbies has been to collect 'aptronyms' - the newspaper columnist Franklin P. Adams's term for people whose names were curiously appropriate to, or provided ironic comment on, their occupations.
Timothy Noah
#85. Curiously, anatomical reality in art was apparently a horrifying concept to the same men and women who lined up to see bodies at the morgue.
Deborah Davis
#86. A girl? Her mother looked at her, curiously, as if the word were unknown to her; ancient and puzzling as an artifact behind a glass encasement.
Abby Slovin
#87. A tall, dark-haired boy ... stared after me curiously. He gave me a slow smile before turning his attention back to Miller. That smile sent chills racing down my arms, leaving gooseflesh in their wake, but not in a good way. It was less Mr. Sexypants and more Mr. Windowless Van.
Cara Lynn Shultz
#88. Kaderin didn't believe, as a whole, the nymphs were more beautiful than the Valkyrie, but everything about them screamed, "Easy lay! When you don't want to work for it!" And curiously, many males found that more appealing than the Valkyrie's "Do it and die, simian".
Kresley Cole
#89. Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.
Barry Hannah
#90. Social Darwinists of the day were forever on about the joys of bloody teeth and claws, but they were curiously uncelebratory of speed and deception, poison and surprise.
Thomas Pynchon
#91. The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.
John Millington Synge
#92. Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.
Paul De Man
#93. Theatre is castigated for wallowing in self-indulgence, but it's curiously unsentimental. You simply have to move on. Everything passes. Something in me likes that.
Richard Eyre
#94. That curiously clean, semi-transparent look of the genteel, isolated poor.
D.H. Lawrence
#95. For you to be here now, trillions of drifting atoms had somehow to assemble in an intricate and curiously obliging manner to create you.
Bill Bryson
#96. The bigger question to ask about 300 is why, for a supposedly rousing tale of heroism, it's so curiously unaffecting.
Stephanie Zacharek
#97. She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.
Charles Dickens
#98. Everything here is a lie," Rose said. "Just because you saw it doesn't mean it really happened." Tom nodded. He was curiously reluctant to take up this hope she offered. If he reached out, it might bite his hand.
Peter Straub
#99. It's the best way of telling the truth; it's a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts. Beyond that ... [it's] delight in, and play with, language; also, a curiously intimate way of communicating with people whom you will never meet.
Julian Barnes
#100. The Chasers throw the Quaffle and put it through the hoops to score," Harry recited. "So - that's sort of like basketball on broomsticks with six hoops, isn't it?"
"What's basketball?" said Wood curiously.
"Never mind," said Harry quickly.
J.K. Rowling
