#curious

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

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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

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A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity. ↗

— Edward Tufte

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An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

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I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

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Be like Curious George, start with a question and look under the yellow hat to find what's there. ↗

— James Collins

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The most important thing for a judge is - curiously enough - judgment. ↗

— Lord Patrick Devlin

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I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with people, yet I've been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that's solely because I don't reveal too much: people are curious. ↗

— Shirley Manson

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