Curious Quotes

I'm one of those people that is up for most things. When I was offered to sing at the Oscars I was like, 'Yeah, I want to know what that's like!' I'm always curious to know what things are like - as long as you're not compromising who you are.
Florence Welch

Long, Sing, Yeah

I began by doing physical yoga, initially just for the workout, as exercise. I would get peaceful and calm at the end of it, and I was curious about that.
Mariel Hemingway

End, Calm, Exercise

I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down-to-earth, gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of their own lives and have never forgotten the people and organizations that helped them dream bigger than their circumstances should have allowed.
Jennifer Garner

Dad, Mother, Dream

I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.
Bruce Dickinson

Job, Become, Realized

I want to see what I look like when I'm old - I'm curious where that's going to take me.
Pamela Anderson

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
Evelyn Waugh

Anyone, Promises, Taste

My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.
Umberto Eco

Life, Important, Him

After spending time with the rescued turkeys at Farm Sanctuary's shelter and seeing how similar they are to my furry companion animals at home, I knew I needed to do everything in my power to protect these friendly and curious birds from the daily pain and suffering they endure on factory farms.
Ginnifer Goodwin

Time, Power, Home

When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him.
Ben Kingsley

Him, Play, Either

I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious.
Isabelle Adjani

Busy, State, Agreeable

Curiosity did kill the cat, but I'm very curious.
Brittany Murphy

I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine.
John James Audubon

Life, Help, Cannot

I like John Kerry. I think he's intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he's deeply committed on issues like the environment. I think he's an internationalist, which I am.
Howard Dean

Thoughtful, Issues, Committed

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.
Terry Eagleton

Change, Future, Past

I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.
Mary Leakey

Found, Liked, Draw

If someone was making a movie about F1 in the last six months, they wouldn't need to add a Hollywood ending. If they do make that movie, it's got to be 'The Curious Case Of Jenson Button,' where I've lived my life backwards. I'd like Johnny Depp to play me but he wouldn't be quite right.
Jenson Button

Life, Someone, Play

I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.
Breyten Breytenbach

Clearly, Defined, Partisan

Walter Cronkite was a personally decent and convivial man, who literally couldn't kill a fly, was kind to his children, generally helpful to juniors, authentically curious about the news, and, in his time, an energetic reporter.
Conrad Black

Time, Children, News

Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful.
Beth Anderson

Food, Everything, Living

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.
Josef Albers

Heart, Painting, Phenomenon

I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.
Liev Schreiber

Acting, Motivation, Intention

There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
Yo-Yo Ma

Kid, Ahead, Edge

As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to the plot, they really were quite happy to be part of the adventure of not knowing.
Radha Mitchell

Happy, Character, Knowing

If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper.
Lynn Johnston

Love, School, Sex

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.
Robertson Davies

Art, Human, Spirit

The human capacity to be curious has always existed.
Patricia Cornwell

Human, Capacity, Existed

I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.
Elisabeth Shue

Women, Important, Young

Recently I was directing an episode of 'Glee' and I lost my cell phone - and I didn't have time to buy a new one for three weeks. Well, the first few days I was anxious as hell, suffered the delirium tremens, didn't think I could make it through, etc. Then something kind of curious happened - I began to feel great.
Eric Stoltz

Time, Great, Lost

The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.
Mary McCarthy

Hero, Happen, Novel

I think we should be passionately curious about what we do.
Mariel Hemingway

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