Quotes About Curiosity

Everyone's waiting for the seventh book, and looking at each other saying, 'Oh, I wonder will I be in the running?

At thirteen, I accompanied my mother to the Hawaiian Islands. There, for the first time, I saw the wonder of a steamship and the vastness of the ocean. From that time on, I was eager to acquire the knowledge of the West and to fathom the mysteries of nature.

I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.

The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is his oyster, or any other thing he wants it to be.

Whenever I meet people who seem really sweet and unassuming, I kind of wonder about them.

If there are no films or plays of interest to me, I don't go. I know how to go to a museum or a library or pick up a good magazine or I can watch the sun set. I know how to live. There's a whole creation out there full of magic and wonder to be explored.

Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all.

I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.

'Who are we?' And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science fiction. A lot of science fiction stories are - at their very best - evocations of that question. When we look up at the night sky and wonder, 'Is there anyone else out there?' we're also asking who we are we in relation to them.

You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem.

When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.

I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know.

I wonder what it would have been like if I could actually sing.

I come from a very, very small town. There were no other actors around. I never met any actors. A lot of those times when I'd be out in the sheds with my dad, I'd step outside, and there's just nothing out there but thousands of acres, forty thousand sheep, and miles of nothing. And so my mind would just wonder about what else was out there.

I love watching scary movies because you always wonder what happens next, and that's what's going to happen on 'The Haunting Hour:' you're always going to want to know what happens next.

I guess one of the most magnificent things a novel can do is to change your perspective on the world, and to give it some sense of wonder, and that's what I find so exciting in writing fantasy, especially fantasy for children. Because already, I think children have a very special and unusual way of seeing the world.

To me, it's always good to retain a sense of wonder and never good too big for life, like you've seen it all before.

We come from a sensory-overload culture, and so we wonder if one guy on drums and one guy dancing around is enough. Adding guys was something we always were curious about. We decided for this run specifically to stay a two-piece. In the future, we definitely could add members.

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

At Motel 6 in Amish Country I wonder if they leave the light on for you?

People are either enamored with me or wonder if they can take me.

Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.

I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character.

We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about.