Curious Quotes - Page 12

• The humans have a curious force they call ambition. It drives them, and, through them, it drives us. This force which keeps them active, we lack. Perhaps, in time, we machines will acquire it.

  John Wyndham

  Hope, Ambition, Machines

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• The reptiles had taken over the city. Once again they were the dominant form of life. Looking up at the ancient impassive faces, Kerans could understand the curious fear they roused, rekindling archaic memories of the terrifying jungles of the Paleocene, when the reptiles had gone down before the emergent mammals, and sense the implacable hatred one zoological class feels towards another that usurps it.

  J. G. Ballard

  Memories, Taken, Animal

  J. G. Ballard (1965). “The Drowned World and the Wind From Nowhere”

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• I was always extremely curious about why people did the things they do.

  George Lucas

  People

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• My writing model is my mother, who is a writer as well. She always valued clarity and simplicity above all else. If someone doesn't understand what you're writing, then everything else you do is superfluous. Irrelevant. If any thoughtful, curious reader finds what I do impenetrable, I've failed.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Mother, Writing, Thoughtful

  Goodreads interview, www.goodreads.com. December, 2008.

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• My highest compliment is when someone comes up to me to say, "My 14-year-old daughter, or my 12-year-old son read your book and loved it." I cannot conceive of a greater compliment than that - to write something that as an adult I find satisfying, but also that manages to reach a curious 13- or 14-year-old.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Daughter, Book, Writing

  Goodreads interview, www.goodreads.com. December, 2008.

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• Sometimes I hear news about the huge dollars involved with CEO pay and corporate-management salaries, and I'm mystified at how someone can justify taking that much at the cost of other people's livelihoods. In a bizarre way, I'm almost kind of curious, like "How can they absolve themselves and enjoy their wealth?" I don't understand it.

  Eddie Vedder

  People, News, Pay

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• China is exciting because it is an extremely curious and interested market. What more can a designer ask for? The client here is bold and willing to try new things, which a country with a long fashion history wouldn't dare. France or England is weighed down by all these rules, elaborate etiquette, do's and don'ts. Things here move incredibly quickly.

  Michael Kors

  Country, Fashion, Moving

  "Michael Kors Talks Kim Kardashian and Bar Mitzvah Fashion in Shanghai". Interview with Alice Pfeiffer, www.elle.com. May 14, 2014.

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• I don't remember what made me want to be an actor. In fact, I'm always curious.

  Robert De Niro

  Actors, Want, Facts

  "New Again: Robert De Niro". Interview with Ingrid Sischy, Colleen Kelsey and Peter Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2012.

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• I suppose the reason why I like acting is because I'm curious about human nature, and the less I know about a character on the page, instinctively, in a way, the better.

  Rebecca Hall

  Character, Acting, Pages

  "Sundance: Stephen Frears & Rebecca Hall Talk Bringing The Gambling Tale ‘Lay The Favorite’ To Life". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, theplaylist.net. January 24, 2012.

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• [Jack] Kerouac looking at the fellaheen worlds. Looking at other cultures. Welcoming it, curious. Really stepping outside his own limited, whatever that narrow world was. It's amazing to think we can do it. We can have that same kind of trajectory of mind.

  Anne Waldman

  Thinking, Other Cultures, Mind

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• I'm curious about other universes, and nonhuman elementals. For me it's still a very lively ethos. It's a kind of practice. It's an ethos that is very sustaining.

  Anne Waldman

  Ethos, Practice, Kind

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• I remain curious about all the lives I can't have - and about the lives of others, real and imagined, past and present, and how people came to be who they are... and who they might yet be. I am enchanted by the landscape of possibility.

  Jay Neugeboren

  Real, Past, People

  Source: www.jewishbookcouncil.org

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• I was very curious, that's why I think my reality TV seems normal. I watch a lot of reality TV because I am so interested in people and observing people. From a very young age I can remember watching a woman with a guy and she's rolling her eyes and he's pleading with her and I would think, she doesn't want to be with him, he's in love with her, she likes this other guy and I would make up these stories in my head about these people. That helps me sort of profile people and that is a key to being able to read people.

  Daniel Negreanu

  Eye, Reality, Thinking

  Source: pokerworks.com

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• I like poems that immediately claim my attention, instead of taking my attention for granted. At first read, I want to feel compelled to pick up the poem again; I want to be curious about its byways and secret corners.

  James Arthur

  Secret, Attention, Want

  "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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• I have always been curious about other people. I wonder what goes on in their minds, whether they are good, or bad and I wonder about their lives.

  Matthew Carter

  People, Mind, Goes On

  Source: darkagefiction.wordpress.com

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• I am an eternally curious person, but I wouldn't go to such lengths to know what it is like to be someone else.

  Matthew Carter

  Length, Persons, Knows

  Source: darkagefiction.wordpress.com

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• I think it's great some hotels provide stationery. Because the first thing I like to do when I get to a hotel room is write a letter. "My dearest Gwendolyn, I arrived by nightfall at the Embassy Suites. It will be a fortnight after my return that this letter shall arrive. Allow me to explain the curious charge at the ledger. It is because I miss thee so much, darling, I accidentally ordered Sorrority Sisters 7."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Writing, Thinking

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• I am also involved with all the acquisitions and overall strategy. Now it's true, I don't run operations. But I've never really run operations. I've never had the endurance to run sales. The whole idea of selling to the customer just isn't my personality. I'm an engineer, tell me why something isn't working or is and I am curious.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Running, Ideas

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• Get involved and learn how to recognise a story happening in front of you. Learn how to ask questions and be curious. That's probably my biggest piece of advice.

  Jill Douglas

  Advice, Stories, Pieces

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• From our point of view, we're just curious, we're poking around and having fun. If it's science, if it's accurate, if it's not accurate, we did the best we can to keep things clean and understandable, but we're just having fun, so sue us if we got something wrong.

  Jamie Hyneman

  Fun, Views, Clean

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am interested and deeply curious about our need for a spiritual life, a life of greater meaning, and how we come to a more ethical view of life within our communities that is more inclusive than exclusive, one that is extended even beyond our own species.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Spiritual, Views, Community

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My inspiration is really very simple: I'm struck by things that I want to know more about. I really do react just as a curious person: who is this person? What's the story behind this situation? Why do people like this or dislike this thing?

  Susan Orlean

  Inspiration, Simple, People

  "Ask the Author Live: Susan Orlean on Jean Paul Gaultier". Liva chat, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2011.

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• Being an older mom, I'm super mellow with my kids. Also, "curious" and "loving.

  Sheryl Crow

  Mom, Kids, Mellow

  "Sheryl Crow on Motherhood". Interview with Cortney Pellettieri, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 9, 2011.

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• I'm a grafter, I like working, but like for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the film company only paid me for the shooting schedule, which was supposed to last six months. But it lasted 11 months and you don't get paid for extra shooting.

  Jason Flemyng

  Benjamin Button, Buttons, Six Months

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Time, Retirement, Envy

  Jeremy Taylor (1847). “The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living”, p.127

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