There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: "W...here was I before I was born." In the beginning was ... what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, "I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me... the story of your life." I mean people are going to say, "You're crazy." Plus they're going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that's a reasonable kind of attention to be paid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among t...he Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
After I went to bed I had a curious fancy as to dreams. In sleep the doors of the mind are shut, and thoughts come jumping in at t...he windows. They tumble headlong, and therefore are so disorderly and strange. Sometimes they are stout and light on their feet, and then they are rational dreams.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Almost everybody wore a curious limpidity of expression, like newborn babies or souls just after death. Dazed but curiously dignif...ied.... after a crise ... of hysterical revulsion and tiredness, I passed beyond ... and became entered by a rather sublime feeling.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible info...rmation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wonder if his appetite was good? Or, if it were, if also his digestion?... Methinks at meals some odd thoughts might intrude, And conscience ask a curious sort of question, About the right divine how far we should Sell flesh and blood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"And how many hours a day did you do lessons?" said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. "Ten hours the first day," said ...the Mock Turtle: "nine the next, and so on." "What a curious plan!" exclaimed Alice. "That's the reason they're called lessons," the Gryphon remarked: "because they lessen from day to day."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »