Quotes About Curiosity

I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.

A kid who moves is a kid who learns.

Hell, I might want to be like some other people and become a movie star or join the UFC. You never know.

I was the kind of girl who'd peep through her bedroom keyhole to check if her dolls were moving.

I'm the kind of person who, if I like one song, will listen to all of the band's work before moving on to another group.

As many times as I have done 'Marriage of Figaro,' I have never been able to ask Mozart what he intended in this piece.

Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer.

I didn't know much about golf growing up.

Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.

I think I enjoy my life doing multiple things, I would be easily bored if I did just one thing.

My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don't know him at all. I had no male figures in my life, really. I had my godfather, but he's more like a grandfather, so I was quite sheltered. I've never tried to find my father.

As a child, I was always getting into risky situations with the potential to hurt myself, but mum and dad never stopped me doing what I wanted to do, and they assumed that if I fell and hurt myself, I would learn from that and maybe not do it again.

An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.

When I went to Munich, I was perhaps a little too young.

Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

I definitely think my work comes from things that I liked as a kid, and things I still like now. Monsters and magic and museums and movies, a lot of things that start with 'M' for some reason.

I go to museums all the time.

I feel so much more comfortable when I'm working on material which makes other people scratch their heads and ask, 'You're going to make a musical out of that?'

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

Musically, I always wanted to experiment.

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.

We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

We got HBO when I was 7. My parents would be in bed, 'Children of the Corn' would be on at midnight, and I'd watch it on mute.