Inside was where she lived, physically and mentally. She resided in the horn of plenty of her own prodigious mind, fertilized by inexhaustible curiosity.
Somebody is always reflectively monkeying with some of the parts of an infinite universe - monkeying as distinct from aping.
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe is still threatened with a repetition of those calamities, which formerly oppressed the arms and institutions of Rome.
In any case it is not normal to put into the satisfaction of mere curiosity the amount of time and effort that scientists put into their work.
Suspense combines curiosity with fear and pulls them up a rising slope.
The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to 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 always wanted to see what America was like. I had that curiosity in my 20s when I was working in the theatre here [ in London]. . . there was the mystery of LA and I wondered what happened over there. I wanted to go and check it out and I'm pleased that I have.
I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.
I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity and ability to cope with change.
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
What we love and what captures our curiosity draws us forward into some place of great destiny.
As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.
There was a time, right up until the end of the Second World War and beyond, when white people in Europe thought that they basically owned the world and that everybody else was a sort of servant, or a curiosity, or whatever. And that informed 99 percent of the photographic practice that was done. Without being able to address that, I felt I would have failed in my attempt to explain what the urge to document is.
In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had she paints, or clay, or knew the discipline of the dance, or strings, had she anything to engage her tremendous curiosity and her gift for metaphor, she might have exchanged the restlessness and preoccupation with whim for an activity that provided her with all she yearned for. And like an artist with no art form, she became dangerous.
O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death.
Go around asking a lot of dam fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them.
Without curiosity, all doors remain closed!