Quotes About Curiosity

To me, NASA is kind of the magical kingdom. I was sort of a geek, and you go there, and there are just these wondrously strange things and people.

Out here, everything is bigger. You see strange things, and that changes you.

One of the strange things about imaginary food is that it allows us to take pleasure in reading about things that we would never want to eat in real life.

I've eaten a lot of strange things. I've eaten something called a razor clam. They just call it that because it likes like the old-school razors in the old-school barber shops. I can't even think of some of the things I've tried.

If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.

I remember finding 'Harold and Maude' strangely erotic. I've always had an octogenarian fetish.

Strangely enough, as I explored these abandoned malls, I found myself acting like a kid all over again. At times jumping up on to nearby fountain ledges trying to balance myself as I became mesmerized all over again by the futuristic skylights that dangled fearlessly over my head.

I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't understand, where there are things you can't access simply by being intelligent or doing well in school.

Strangely, I was just not interested in biology.

I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.

I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte.

When you meet a stranger, look at his shoes. Keep your money in your shoes.

'Carnival Row' is us looking at the stranger; 'The Curiosity' is the stranger looking at us.

I'll talk to any stranger about everything. I'm not guarded.

I once spent an entire night in a hotel in New York looking across the way into someone's apartment where nothing was happening but daily life, a phone call, television watching, staring into the fridge. Seeing how those strangers lived over that small distance and in absolute silence moved me deeply.

Talk to strangers. They're never who you think they are at first.

I love talking, even to strangers.

There's no law against asking strangers about their lives and feelings, although sometimes it really feels like there is.

I love talking to strangers and absorb their life experiences.

I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth.

Ten rules of thumb are still a lot for anyone to remember, so perhaps I should try to make things simpler. I realize that these suggestions have a common thread—a golden rule, if you like. Be curious.

To the discovered, the discoverer can be a god.

How are things on the edge of space?

The secret world she had entered danced to a different song.