I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
Love is three quarters curiosity.
I have survivor's curiosity, I guess.
What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.
I'm not coming from film school. I learned cinema in the cinema watching films, so you always have a curiosity. I say, 'Well, what if I make a film in this genre? What if I make this film like this?'
I'm talking about enjoying and finding pleasure and interest and happiness and curiosity every moment.
I have a curiosity that compels me to find ways to make music that are fresh and new.
I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.
The young generation has a different curiosity that is more visual.
What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European valleys, I confidently expect.
It is so important to allow children to bloom and to be driven by their curiosity.
In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.
I started traveling out of curiosity, but I have come to believe in travel's political importance, that encouraging a nation's citizenry to travel may be as important as encouraging school attendance, environmental conservation, or national thrift. You cannot understand the otherness of places you have not encountered.
People get jaded in every profession, but for some reason, I feel as passionate as when I was 13 years old and just released my first album. I feel the same amount of adrenaline in my blood, and the same amount of curiosity as well. Curiosity about why I'm different.
It's that invasive and puerile curiosity to feed a tabloid culture. I don't subscribe to it.
The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.
Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.
Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.
I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.
We're born with a curiosity about the universe. Those people who don't have a curiosity don't have it because it's gotten beaten out of them in some way.
I'm full of curiosity.
When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.
Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.
There's so much interest and curiosity about alien life, interstellar travel. It's always in the news.
Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.
In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore - in short, to play.
I love when stories have something a little magical in them, and there's wonder and curiosity. Somewhere there are people living these improbable stories, and our job is to go out and find them and bring them to the page. And so, the more surprising, the more uplifting, the more sort of even inspiring a story is, I find myself gripped by those.
