Curiosity Quotes (585 Quotes)


    What's exciting is, like, Batman Begins basically really did a wonderful job explaining exactly why he was a bat and why he had everything on his costume that he did, ... That's the joy of doing an origin story of Wonder Woman. Why does she wear the bracelets Why does she use the lasso Like, ... where does all that stuff come from ... And I have answers for all of that, and it's really fun. So it's not a reinvention like, 'Oh, she's going to dress like Trinity from The Matrix.'


    The first gatherings of the garden in May of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine. And this emotion of wonder filled me for each vegetable as it was gathered every year. There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.


    It allows us to get away and stop banging up against our guys and get ourselves and our minds into playing football against other guys. I think it is about time. We've been (at training camp) for 10 or 11 days now and the guys' minds are starting to wonder, go here and there. I think it is about that time. The fans and everybody else are getting ready for football now.


    Well, everyone will come to that conclusion sooner or later for there is a limit to the capacity of man to control events. You may call it Destiny. Another may call it Providence and a third, God. Names do not matter. It is the humility that matters the wonder and the sense of awe that matters.



    Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.



    That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.


    I have a lot of memories with these people. It was great recording with Hendrix and playing with Stevie Wonder was great. They were all great. It's hard to pick any one of them out. Jimi Hendrix was very meticulous in the studio. He was always way ahead of his time.

    Through my LSD experience and my new picture of reality, I became aware of the wonder of creation, the magnificence of nature and of the animal and plant kingdom. I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us.

    Oh, when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave And miles around the wonder grew How well I did behave. And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again.


    It's a lot more convenient than going in a store, and it's twice the ice, ... It's a wonder someone didn't come up with this idea a long time ago. Whoever came up with it is going to make a million dollars.

    We are just flabbergasted. It could be curiosity, or pent-up excitement from people who for several months have been unable to play. We do know that it's an economic gold mine right now.

    Literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it is. It is affected by things other than its own intrinsic quality by a curiosity or lack of it about the people it deals with, their outlook, their way of life.




    I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen.

    For those voters who have any sort of curiosity or anxious feelings, there's plenty of opportunity to go ahead and take part in a demonstration. If any voter does not do it and their first experience is on Election Day, those voters will have no problem voting.


    It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible.


    I think he's willing to work. I think anybody that says he's not willing to work hasn't been around him enough. I'm sure at times he would get frustrated and wonder, 'What am I working for' It's not that he's a lazy guy.

    There is going to be a wonder player coming along every 15 or 20 years. But what makes this story unique is that the Mario story is unique and he's still here for Sidney to play with. When Mario came to Pittsburgh, he didn't have a Mario to play with or to counsel him or advise him. He was on his own.


    Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

    He still is something of a curiosity piece. We don't know any more than you do and we're just taking it a day at a time with him. We know he's tall. We know he's got great hands. We know he's fast and we love his competitiveness and his confidence. But we're just going a little slow because it's a huge change for him.

    I brought my personality and sense of wonder and I think they wrote as much of my personality as they could. I do not go around kicking butt and saving the universe all the time but they tried to capture me as best as they could in the character.


    I never claimed to have any extraordinary talent, just maybe extraordinary curiosity. I can learn, I am learning, and I hope to become a proficient, eventually a good, actress. Several have made the transition from a sex symbol to being taken seriously - that's something I really yearn for.



    If this is how children's play enters the adult world, is it any wonder that adults long to retire so that they can at last get their childhood right






    Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.


    I'd heard of Rick for a number of years, ... He's kind of a pioneer in the music business, and he's produced so many different types of music and artists that you can't help but know about him. And you wonder, 'What the heck is this guy going to do next' without realizing that you were what he was going to do next I found out quickly I was comfortable with him and liked what his ideas were. It was a no-brainer Let's give it a try and have fun . . . and tell me where to stand.

    What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?





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