Quotes About Curiosity

Mystery makes movie stars! If you see someone on the cover of the weeklies all the time, why would you want to pay to see them in a movie?

Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.

I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.

I'm interested in genius the way a hungry man is interested in Philadelphia cheesesteaks. I want something. I want a piece of it.

I want you to be a connoisseur of great questions? Here's one - what would we do if we had no money?

Boo: "Go talk to her." Callum: "About what?" Boo: "Anything." Callum: "You want me to walk up to her and say, 'Are you a ghost?'" Boo: "I do that." Callum: "I love it when you get it wrong.

Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarassing way to die." Mara

It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence.

I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it; I wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn't.

Despite all their fears, we ask very little of the ones who never loved us. We do not ask for sympathy or pain or compassion. We simply want to know why.

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'

I was always fascinated by forbidden things people didn't want to talk about, like death.

Sometimes you think you want to know something, but it's actually more exciting and more resonant when you have to try [and figure it out].

She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.

If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want.

I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written and find out why they wrote it.

It's fun to discover things. I wouldn't want everything laid out, simply and too obviously.

I kind of want to know a little bit about everything.

Id love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

Do not be precious about your music within your own world. Try everything you want to try; just because it exists doesn't mean it's done.

You have to tease enough misinformation and lack of information to hopefully make people want more.

Anything?" She laughed. "Like what kind of anything did you want?" "Well, when I was five, I wanted to take a bath in spaghetti." -Clary & Jace, pg.310-