#curious

My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher. ↗

— James Tobin

#anyone #casually #curious #father #gentle

The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations. ↗

— Henry Villard

#chairs #curious #either #fingers #him

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life. ↗

— Hugh Walpole

#comes #curious #happiness #life #some

My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions. ↗

— Emma Watson

#ask #curious #fame #friends #just

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#believed #could #curious #handling #how

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. ↗

— Francis Wright

#curiously #directed #equally #exercise #faculties

I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law? ↗

— Jerry Yang

#always #curious #electrical #engineer #got

There are things that make no sense, that seem unreal, that can’t be grasped, or understood, or explained, that maybe don’t even exist… And still, somehow, those wonderful things touch and change our lives. Isn’t it strange? ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#fantasy #inspiring #make-believe #pretend #richelle

There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#always #charging #curious #edge #going

I've been curious about certain things, but didn't let them get in the way of my life. I don't know how people becoem successful with some kind of habit. ↗

— Tobey Maguire

#been #certain #certain things #curious #get