Quotes About Curiosity

Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.

I have thought for a long time that one day, if I finally got to deserve it, I would love to write about the minds of invertebrates.

I didn't want a desk job; I knew I'd get bored.

If all you were left believing was what you were seeing, it'd be nothing but desperate. To have hope, you're going to have to imagine that there's something behind the curtain.

I have always been a reader. I was one of those kids desperate to learn. I would read anything.

When I was a kid, I desperately wanted more background information on especially cartoonists.

I think we all want to know where we came from and how we fit into the world, but some of us need to know how it all works in great detail.

There's nothing more interesting than the details of someone's life.

I am a magpie. My eye collects details.

Delving into history is not an escape for me. I'm like a detective, sniffing for clues with a terrier-like excitement.

I wanted to be an actor when I was young, and I wanted to be a detective.

I think all scientists are like detectives. We are most happy when we find something that doesn't fit our expectations.

Books are mind reading devices; they allow us free access to the thoughts and dreams of people we have never met.

The vividness of children is easier to see when they're completely left to their own devices.

For some reason the most devoted mapheads seem to be kids.

I learned how to change a cloth diaper on a raccoon. I was maybe 8 or 9.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

I once tried to read the dictionary. It didn't work.

I don't want to be a didactic voice. I like to ask more questions than I answer, just to get people thinking and to make it safe to access art.

People would ask what college are you going to, and I'd say, 'San Diego State.' And they'd say, 'Why?'

Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company.

I like making films about different cultures. I'm interested in things that I've never encountered before. I try to put myself in the audience's position.

I grew up watching different kinds of shows and films and read so many different authors.

I think I'll always flutter all over. I'd like to live in different parts of the world - I'd love to live in Tuscany for a few months.