Quotes About Curiosity

I never knew what a reporter looked like.

As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism.

I took a job as a reporter in India, where I lived with several married couples, which got me interested in why some marriages work and others fail. Back home, many women of my generation were also putting off marriage or not getting married at all, which only led me to more questions.

I'm just a reporter.

Even the most liberal reporters I know have a sense of drive and curiosity about what the Clintons are hiding, because they know it's always something.

One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.

The first step in good reporting is good snooping.

To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know, but I still love the adventure of going out and reporting on things I don't know about.

Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions.

I was left £50 when I was ten by a fairly distant cousin, which my father invested in GEC shares on my behalf. I became interested in the market and was given some more shares by my father, which is when I began looking to see how the shares were performing and learning how to read company reports, balance sheets, and so on in order to gauge that.

I'll often order a cortado and stand there quizzing the poor barista about the extraction time, how much pressure they are applying and how many grams are in it. I am that guy. It's reprehensible to the max, but it's how I go through my life.

I'm really interested in food now. I never used to be. I always used to just eat when I'm hungry, and now it's an experience.

I guess if I had to pick one interest that is unique, it would be giant squids - I'm disturbingly fascinated by them and even wrote a story about the hunt for them.

I like anything with Zak Bagans and ghost hunters.

I am not in any hurry to grow up.

For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was bad. I was told I could explore any thought as long as I wasn't hurting someone else.

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.

Actually, actually, when he first put us into hypnosis, he didn't know what he was going to get.

Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.

I don't know if there's any sport that's stupid, but I really don't understand curling. I guess I'm just not into brooms on ice.

People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.

I'd love to go to Easter Island, Hawaii, Iceland and Antarctica.

Yet everybody's experience is really interesting. Or, if not their experience, then their unlived life. Or their desire. Their id. Their curiosity.

You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.