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Gone are the days of curiosity-seekers looking for their 15 minutes of fame. (Quote by - David Mackey)

If you just tell the story of what the story's about, then it sparks curiosity, but I think it also arouses suspicion, as you say, that it could be overly sentimental. But it so isn't. And I think it was all about doing the inner work and then underplaying everything. (Quote by - Gerard Butler)

Your curiosity was the characteristic that editors and reporters mentioned more than any other. I think of The Times reader as curious, as someone who regards life as a continuing education, .. Each reader has a few subjects about which he or she may be passionate, even expert, and a more wide-ranging appetite that can be seduced, surprised, engaged on almost any subject if we present it well. (Quote by - Bill Keller)

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. (Quote by - Walt Disney)

The view after 70 is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters. (Quote by - William Maxwell)

What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if no one know there was such a person, and you wished no one to know it: it is to be a silent spectator of the mighty scene of things, not an object of attention or curiosity in it; to take a thoughtful, anxious interest in what is passing in the world, but not to feel the slightest inclination to make or meddle with it. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)

We don't have any knock-you-over-the-head messages because the show is for children. There is however an intellectual curiosity as the children, while listening to the voices, try to figure out and understand all of the hand signals. (Quote by - William Morgan)

Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity. (Quote by - Anatole France)

The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy. (Quote by - Anatole France)

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly. (Quote by - Arnold Edinborough)

I think Averell Harriman is in the true sense of the word an extraordinary man. He has an infallible memory, a ceaseless curiosity, a vitality which even today at the age of eighty is superior to that of many men, probably most men half his age; and he has always occupied a front row seat at the great events, international political events, of our time. (Quote by - David Bruce)

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world. (Quote by - Vincent Canby)

Youth is not measured by the age of a person, but by the curiosity a person keeps. (Quote by - Salvador Paniker)

Oh yeah, this is a national story. Being here at the beginning of this era, the curiosity, the intrigue of him being back in this (SEC East) division now more than ever, this is the epicenter of college football. (Quote by - Chris Fowler)

You know what a woman's curiosity is. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

The presentation of ecstasy as a happiness pill by the media creates curiosity among youngsters, and even housewives use it in the belief it helps to lose weight. (Quote by - Cem Cehdioglu)

Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. ne great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected. (Quote by - John Locke)

If you give people tools, [and they use] their natural ability and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected. (Quote by - Bill Gates)

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and consta. (Quote by - Walt Disney)

One should never count the years -- one should instead count one's interests. I have kept young trying never to lose my childhood sense of wonderment. I'm glad I still have a vivid curiosity about the world I live in. (Quote by - Helen Keller)

Curiosity has its own reason for existence. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

It became a passion for me, .. It was a curiosity: 'You've done this one, what's the next one going to be like?'. (Quote by - Fred Harris)

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. (Quote by - William Arthur Ward)

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