curious Quotes

″ ‘My daddy said I was a different breed of dog from my brothers and sisters. ‘You know,’ Daddy said, ‘it’s some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it’s others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He’s going to be into everything!’ ”

″ It is curious -- the way the human mind works. The Christian begins with this straight proposition, this definite proposition, this inflexible and uncompromising proposition: God is allknowing, and all-powerful.”

“Breakfast was a curious meal. Everyone was very polite…. Six people, all outwardly self-possessed and normal. And within? Thoughts that ran round in a circle like squirrels in a cage…. “What next? What next? Who? Which?”

“But no matter when I go back, the fact remains, eventually I need to face the other people on the tapes.”

“Curious how a place unvisited can take such hold on the mind so that the very name sets up a ringing.”

“He was a good little monkey and always very curious.”

“George promised to be good. But it is easy for little monkeys to forget. ”

“GEORGE HAD TELEPHONED THE FIRE STATION!”

“The firemen rushed into the house. They opened the door. NO FIRE! Only a naughty little monkey.”

“A little girl bought a balloon for her brother. George watched. He felt curious again. He felt he MUST have a bright red balloon.”

“Arrietty stared up at him. So this was “the boy”! Breathless, she felt, and light with fear.”

But when the confused and curious boy discovers that a mysterious virus is spreading through town, he decides to enter an otherworldly house to stop it.

“Will the story of one overly curious bunny who learned her lesson about snooping teach Max his? ”

“They became the closest possible friends. They told each other about their lives, their ambitions. They shared their deepest secrets with each other. The whale was very curious about life on land and was very sorry that he could never experience it. Amos was fascinated by the whale’s accounts of what went on deep under the sea.”

“It is never wrong to be curious. But it can sometimes be dangerous.”

“There, on her front step, was a baby monster. Angela was curious, so she carried him in....and brought him up. Angela had never ged a baby before, and what a strange big baby he was! She called him ‘Old Tom’.”

“Spelling is a curious thing... it’s so often different from what you expect it to be. I used to think ‘please’ was spelled p-l-e-e-s, but it isn’t, you know; and you’d think ‘dear’ was spelled d-e-r-e, if you didn’t inquire. Sometimes it almost discourages you.”

“Way off in the distance she could see the lights of the city. The Little House was curious about the city and wondered what it would be like to live there.”

“Never again would she be curious about the city...Never again would she want to live there...The stars twinkled above her...The new moon was coming up...It was Spring...And all was quiet and peaceful in the country.”

“When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he’s given a curious and highly classified assignment.”

“I almost wish I hadn’t gone down that rabbit-hole—and yet—and yet—it’s rather curious, you know, this sort of life!