26 Curiously Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Happiness Somebody Else Boring About Something Curiously

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

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

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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

In 2009, novelty toymaker Maxfield & Oberton released Buckyballs, sets of curiously powerful magnetic marbles that became the most popular cubicle toy since the Rubik's Cube, selling more than 2 million units in 15 countries. David Sax

Sets Released More Magnetic Powerful Countries Since Most Toy Became Cube Selling Than Curiously Popular Novelty Marbles Million Units

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

Man Animal Single Mental Directed Only Imperfect Faculties He Knows Equally Exercise However His Curiously Who Lives Muscles

Something about teaching is curiously attractive, actually. I don't know what it is. Hugh Grant

About Something Know Attractive Curiously Teaching Actually

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

Life Work Big States Writers Curiously Full Who United United States

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

Freedom Women Liberate Free Invent Out Having Without Were Discovered Cultural Norm Curiously Rewards While Forms Themselves

Although psychoanalysis has influenced me personally, it has had curiously little influence on my writing. This may be because writers learn from other writers, not from theories. Janet Malcolm

Me Writing Other Writers Had Learn Although Because Curiously May Influence Influenced Psychoanalysis Little Personally Theories

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

Time Knowledge Wind Enough General Direction General Knowledge Island Curiously Depends

There's nothing very exotic about classic Chilean street food. Imagine a hot dog hidden beneath an explosion of mayonnaise and ketchup. Cost? Twenty-five to 30 pence. This is the completo, an all-purpose solution to breakfast, lunch or, once, the curiously English teatime snack enjoyed by Chileans of all ages. Jonathan Franklin

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

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I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out! Karl Schroeder

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

Jazz Very Accurate America Curiously Century

Curiously, many Democrats have acceded to Clintonism not because of their cold practicality and political professionalism, but because the Clintons are the sworn enemy of the right. The Clintons, in other words, while hardly being left, have been defined as the opposite of being right - the enemy of my enemy being my friend. Michael Wolff

Enemy Words Political Cold Other Defined My Friend Practicality Because Democrats Opposite Been Friend Left Curiously Being In Other Words While Many Professionalism Right Hardly Sworn

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

Art Simply Perhaps Concerning Because Efficacy Curiously Little Reason

It's odd for me to compare my stuff to Lee Child's, because I'm such of fan of his, and also because it's curiously something I never did until I kept hearing about our protagonists' similarities. Nick Petrie

The Mormon belief system unites curiously American pairs of opposites. A relish for the dog-eat-dog practices of the marketplace goes hand in hand with the stern obligation to 'help thy neighbor.' Shana Alexander

Obligation Opposites Marketplace Neighbor System Relish Mormon Thy Stern Practices Hand Hand-In-Hand American Curiously Goes Help Pairs Belief Unites

The notion of 'world leadership' is a curiously archaic one. The very phrase is redolent of Kipling ballads and James Bondian adventures. What makes a country a world leader? Is it population, in which case India is on course to top the charts, overtaking China as the world's most populous country by 2034? Shashi Tharoor

Leadership World Leader Country Top India Phrase Archaic Case Charts Adventures Most Course Makes Ballads Very Curiously James Which China Notion Population World Leader

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

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

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Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in a row in the early 30's and, although I was still in my 20's, I demanded and received approval of cast, story and director. I don't know how I got away with it, but I did! Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

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A column is a curiously intimate affair. For a start, you know by default that you will have regular readers, so it gives the writer the privilege of continuing a running conversation with them. Monty Don

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