Quotes About Curiosity

We don't want to raise sheltered children. They should see different parts of the country, and they should experience things.

I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot.

I did magic all my life from the time I was 12, and I like to tap into the magic from history.

I find the songs I want to record by listening to as much music as I can. 'When I hear things I really like, I ask the writers to send me a tape of everything they've ever written.

One of the first cassette tapes I ever purchased was the 'Rambo III' score. I was not allowed to see 'Rambo,' but my mom would allow me to buy the music, so I would listen to that score over and over and imagine the movie.

When I was very young, I just loved the idea of tapping on stuff, so I was always making a lot of noise.

My target audience is anyone who finds the world interesting and human behavior fascinating, terrible, inspiring, funny, and occasionally, mysterious.

Science is to do research because of the target's fascinating and interesting characteristics.

'The Catcher in the Rye' was targeted by some schools as a book too risque to read and certainly not appropriate for young minds. My parents certainly would not have approved of the book, but I secretly read it when I was in 7th grade. I felt so rebellious, and my young mind loved it.

I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.

Tarzan is such a great character in that he's very innocent and wide-eyed about the world, yet he's so powerful and capable. It's fun to play those qualities simultaneously in the same person.

When education feels arduous or like a task, a lot of times you don't get people to open the door to interact with it.

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.

Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like.

Best strategy for a first date is to ask her questions. Just keeping asking her questions about herself. Her life, her job, her friends, her taste in movies and music and everything. People mostly just want to talk about themselves, so let her do that.

I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage.' I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales.

I've never, ever tasted beer.

I thought it was crazy for people to eat dirt until I actually tasted it. I really liked it!

Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies.

I don't need to know how they make Coca-Cola. I think it tastes just fine not knowing what the ingredients are. I think there are some things that should be kept secret.

I'll eat anything. I ate antelope once in Swaziland. I didn't know what it was until I'd started chewing it. Everything tastes like chicken though doesn't it? It wasn't bad.

Most people my age, their musical life ended in the '80s. They stick with what they know. But my tastes are much broader. And I don't want to stop learning.

You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store.

My musical tastes - I'm always searching for new things. I know a lot of people say they listen to everything, but I kind of do.