Quotes of: Curiously Keyword

Curiouser and curiouser," he says. I smile at the reference. Carroll was totally a witch. The secrets of our world are written into that book.

Salt

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Aldous Huxley

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

Ken Burns

There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.

Nicholas Mosley

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

Joseph Conrad

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

John Millington Synge

Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.

Ellsworth Huntington

From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.

Gloria Swanson

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

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

Irwin Shaw

Curiosity is called curiosity because of how curiously it can creep into people’s behavior no matter what dangers are around.

Elizabeth Newton

She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.

Great Expectations

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

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 locati...

Jaquelin T. Robertson

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

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

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

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

Jane Burnham: [seeing Lester having just been shot] Oh, my God... Ricky Fitts: [looks at Lester, curiously intrigued] Wow...

American Beauty

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.

Adam Bede

Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.'

Terry Eagleton