Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Dershowitz

The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.

James Hillman

We must look back over our lives and look at some of the accidents and curiosities and oddities and troubles and sicknesses and begin to see more in those things than we saw before. It raises questions, so that when peculiar little accidents happen, you ask whether there is something else at work in your life.

Soleil Moon Frye

We can all become activists and raise questions.

William Mapother

I'm ready for conventions. You know what's interesting, the sort of questions that Lost raises are of a different sort from this movie. In other words, Lost is about figuring out the world of the show, whereas this one seems to raise questions about the world that we know. But I'm happy to entertain both.

Roger Ebert

Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.

Dean Young

Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too.

Alan Watts

It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things.

Charles Krauthammer

Consider the oddity of those drug commercials on television. Fifteen seconds of the purported therapeutic effort, followed by about 45 seconds of a rapidly muttered list of horrific possible side effects. When the ad is over, I can't remember a thing about what the pill is supposed to do, except perhaps cause nausea, liver damage, projectile vomiting, a nasty rash, a four-hour erection, and sudden death. Sudden death is my favorite because there is something comical about it being a side effect. What exactly is the main effect in that case? Relief from abdominal bloating?

Douglas Adams

There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.

Clifford Geertz

It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.

George Eliot

Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.

Pierre Salinger

The things that stand out are often the oddities.

Martha Plimpton

I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.

Eugene Mirman

I laugh at weird times - at good and bad things alike. I laugh simply when things are incongruous. It's not necessarily a judgment - as it is noticing the oddity of something.

James Rayner

My great curiosity is how the union will respond to this. I think the fact finder has sent a very strong message with regard to health insurance. I wonder whether the teachers will see it that way or not.

Bob Woodward

Obviously the publishers, because of historical curiosity or the significance of it, I think expected more, ... It obviously was not as much as some of my other books, but I don't know how much a writer can get involved in trying to second-guess that.

Aaron Kampman

Obviously, the curiosity of the unknown is something you want to investigate. (But) I felt strong enough about this place and the Packers treated me fairly, so I didn't need to explore that. In the end, this is the place that I wanted to be.

Daniel Cohen

When the moment of truth came, when we entered the city, I was no longer afraid: my curiosity overcame the fear.

Diane Sawyer

If there were a rehab for curiosity; I'd be in it.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity.

Aaron Allston

Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarassing way to die." Mara

William Morgan

We don't have any knock-you-over-the-head messages because the show is for children. There is however an intellectual curiosity as the children, while listening to the voices, try to figure out and understand all of the hand signals.

Chip Conley

Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit.