Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

These humiliations are the essence of the game.

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries to come to conclusions that are right for him whether or not they coincide with your own.

Curiosity is free wheeling intelligence.

An Elephant can trumpet and shake the earth but not the self possession of the ants who hold it.

New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.

Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.

A professional; is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.

Curiosity doesn't matter any more. These days people don't want to be transported to emotional territories where they don't know how to react.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.

It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference.

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European valleys, I confidently expect.

Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.

In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated.