I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but her's curiosity could have massacred a pride of lions. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“great thinkers simply got stuck out of sheer curiosity investigating very general questions about the way things are.” — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
It was a curious feeling, that something could be so close and so distant at the same time. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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. — Alan Davies Copy Share Image
Curiosity doesn't matter anymore. These days people don't want to be transported to emotional territories where they don't know how to react. — Hector Babenco Copy Share Image
She watched me with a creepy sort of detached curiosity, as if I were a bug crawling across the sidewalk in front… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
In Silicon Valley, where I worked at companies like Facebook and Twitter for the earlier part of this decade, Cuba was generally… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Yeah. I’m an asshole. But I promise you, when the shit rolls downhill and you need someone with a shovel, I’m an… — Lotchie Burton Copy Share Image
In Quanzhou, I have a lot of influence from superstition. I would go to the temple with my grandmother and mother. That… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
Without wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I was born to be an explorer. There never was any decision to make. I coudn't be anything else and be happy,the… — Roy Chapman Andrews Copy Share Image
We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
To work in America or other places is more about curiosity, because I'm dealing with cultures and sensibilities that I don't really… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
“All children are curious and I wonder by what process this trait becomes developed in some and suppressed in others. I suspect… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in. Whether you're photographing for yourself, for… — Steve McCurry Copy Share Image
“I assigned myself the role of Lot’s wife, because her behavior seemed the most human, the most sinful, and therefore closest to… — Danilo Kiš Copy Share Image
I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“The friendship of two young people,' says Goethe somewhere, 'is delightful when the girl likes to learn and the boy to teach.'… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image