#curious

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

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If someone was making a movie about F1 in the last six months, they wouldn't need to add a Hollywood ending. If they do make that movie, it's got to be 'The Curious Case Of Jenson Button,' where I've lived my life backwards. I'd like Johnny Depp to play me but he wouldn't be quite right. ↗

— Jenson Button

#add #backwards #button #case #curious

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

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I am curious, I love making discoveries, travelling, speaking with people, go shopping. ↗

— Maria Grazia Cucinotta

#curious #discoveries #go #i #i am

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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If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#books #burn #curious #draw #father

The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#curious #driven #fire #friends #go

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means. ↗

— Paul de Man

#curiously #describing #does #enough #language

Curious people are intersting people, I wonder why that is. ↗

— Bill Maher

#i #i wonder #people #why #wonder

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute. ↗

— Francis Schaeffer

#age #allowed #curious #insistence #mark