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But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.
Charles Ives

Music, Hope, May

I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income and really no skills to parent?
Ellen Barkin

Child, Parent, Loving

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
Jeanette Winterson

Home, Might, Danger

Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.
Thomas Hardy

War, Help, Down

I like all these little animals that run and eat and hide all the time. I like their faces, They seem to be scared and curious at the same time.
Catherine Deneuve

Time, Same, Run

For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.
Plautus

Nobody, Malevolent

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.
Isaiah Berlin

Why, Wish, Whether

Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.
Norman Mailer

Another, Growth, Bit

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
James Thurber

Sense, American, Getting

Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Enjoy, Possible, Company

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
David Bailey

Amazing, Place, London

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.
Annie Lennox

Time, Person, Find

I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.
Sophie Marceau

Love, Find, Speak

It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
Lawrence Welk

Personal, Act, Despair

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.
Meryl Streep

Acting, Interested, Essence

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
Don DeLillo

Time, Fear, Rain

My mum was too busy raising four of us to encourage my hopes. But I'm glad I had the upbringing I did. It made me a worrier and a thoughtful, curious person.
Ellie Goulding

Busy, Person, Thoughtful

A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.
Ben Jonson

Woman, Her, She

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
Tom Wolfe

Life, Men, Loneliness

It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.
Amy Grant

Nature, Time, Human

I feel curious about every situation I'm in.
Paloma Faith

Curiosity did kill the cat, but I'm very curious.
Brittany Murphy

Don't try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won't live long enough to find out about, but I'm still curious about them. You know people who are already saying, 'I'm going to be 30 - oh, what am I going to do?' Well, use that decade! Use them all!
Betty White

Live, Mind, Long

Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you.
Nick Clegg

Become, Between, Actually

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.
Philip Pullman

Time, Forward, Parents

I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.
Rachel Weisz

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.
Rita Dove

Time, Same, Cheerful

India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.
Anita Desai

History, Past, Country

I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.
Mary Oliver

Material, Cluttered, Notion

So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop, to die.
Rupert Murdoch

Love, Home, Wife

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