Curious Quotes

I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people's stories.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.

I used to believe there were people on Mars, and of course now we know there aren't. Mars held particular interest. I was curious what kind of beings they would look like.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.

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

I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing.

A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.

When I think of the artists I admire and seek out musically. It's because I'm curious about where they're going to go the next time they have a chance to put a record out. It's not about where I find them on the radio dial, or how many records they're selling.

A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.

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

This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country.

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.

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

The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations.

I'm curious to see what kind of distribution it's going to get because of that.

The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

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

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

I would say that the directors that I've liked the most are all curious in nature - curious thinkers. They're all big questioners, I would say, first and foremost.

India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.

I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.

Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real.