Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.

I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

I never felt interpretation was my job.

Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.

She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.

I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.

Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.

No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.

I go once a year to the Serengeti to see the wildebeest migrations because that means a lot to me, but I avoid Olduvai if I can because it is a ruin. It is most depressing.

I got too old to live in the bush. You really need to be youngish and healthy, so it seemed stupid to keep going.

I quite liked having a baby - I think I won't put it more strongly than that. But I had no intention of allowing motherhood to disrupt my work as an archeologist.

Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remain the same.

You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.

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.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity.

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

Love is three quarters curiosity.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.