Quotes About Curiosity

Exploration is an oft-lauded human activity, and one that resonates in the same way that music and good stories do. It's hard-wired into our species (and into many others), no doubt because it has survival value. Exploration occasionally rewards those who accept its risks, usually with new resources.

When I'm interested in an aspect of someone's life, I want to ask about their experiences, their survival strategies, and what they do to keep their lives interesting.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

I only have one subject. The question I am obsessed with is: How do children survive?

I have survivor's curiosity, I guess.

Kids are now eating things like edamame and sushi. I didn't know what shiitake mushrooms were when I was 10 - most kids today do.

Everyone in L.A. loves sushi, and I don't understand it at all.

I do suspect we are going to get signs of life elsewhere, but how well prepared are we for this? Have we thought how we will approach them? We need to start thinking about that.

I've always been curious about how much of our cultural baggage we bring to what and how we read. I suspect we bring a lot, although we like to think we don't.

I don't recall exactly when I first began reading about Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery, but I suspect that it was in fourth grade.

My dog's name is Tucker, and his DNA is unidentifiable and suspect.

Children don't have to suspend disbelief like adults do... their brains can take in whatever crazy magical ideas you throw at them.

I got stuck on the Peter Pan ride when I was nine years old with my dad at Disney World. We got stuck on that part of the ride when you're suspended in the pirate ship above the miniature London, and I was fascinated by the why of it all. 'Why is Peter Peter Pan, why is he in Neverland, how did he learn how to fly, etc.?'

I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears.

The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.

Every story needs an element of suspense - or it's lousy.

I'm interested in the human more than I'm interested in building suspense.

You never really stop learning. You have to experiment and reinvent life to sustain your interest.

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.

I have an imagination that will go in any direction it is prodded. I pride myself on being able to become enthusiastic about anything: If you tell me to write a screenplay about cucumber farms, I'll swallow hard, and in 48 hours, I'll be in love with cucumber farms.

People say to me, 'Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange.'

I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No way! I'm an orchestrator, a musician, a producer. I love everything. I've studied languages from Farsi to Greek to French, Swedish, Russian... How can you get bored?

I have never had other kids in the house... I had a huge collection of marbles, and they all had names, which I think concerned my parents. I used to go and sweep outside and talk to myself, and my mum's friends would be over and say, 'Do you realise she is talking to herself?'