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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.
by James Tobin (Economist, American , born in 1918) keywords: also, anyone, casually, curious, father, gentle, happened, informed, intellectual, known, learned, literate, teacher , wise I used to believe there were people on Mars, and of course now we know there aren't. Mars held particular interest. I was curious what kind of beings they would look like.
by Clyde Tombaugh (Scientist, American , born in 1906) keywords: beings, believe, course, curious, held, interest, kind, know, look, mars, now, particular, used, were , would 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.
by Henry Villard (Journalist, American , born in 1835) keywords: after, chairs, curious, either, fingers, him, into, observations, past, presidential, protracted, remained, room, settled, sofa, squeezing , standing Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
by Izaak Walton (Writer, English , born in 1593) topics: Nature keywords: air, art, curious, ditties, forth, furnished, hath, little, musicians, nature, nimble, shame, their, them, those , which My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions.
by Emma Watson (Actor, British , born in 1990) keywords: ask, curious, fame, friends, just, lots, nice, questions , really It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
by Evelyn Waugh (Author, English , born in 1903) keywords: absolutely, anyone, civilized, creed, curious, every, paradise, promises, taste, thing, which , will It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
by Beatrice Webb (Sociologist, British , born in 1958) keywords: curious, diary, discover, identity, mysterious, own, personification, possibly, some, whom, would , writes Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company.
by Margaret J. Wheatley (Writer , American) keywords: aggression, becomes, company, curious, differences, each, enjoy, other, possible, think, well , without I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
by Walt Whitman (Poet, American , born in 1819) keywords: am, behold, curious, each, every, god, hear, least, mankind, object, say, understand , yet 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.
by Tom Wolfe (Journalist, American , born in 1931) keywords: being, belief, central, conviction, curious, existence, fact, far, few, human, inevitable, life, loneliness, men, myself, now, other, peculiar, phenomenon, rare, rests, solitary, upon , whole 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.
by Virginia Woolf (Author, British , born in 1970) keywords: any, believed, could, curious, handling, how, idolatry, image, instinctively, longer, make, oneself, original, other, protects, ridiculous, too , unlike
