Famous Quotes & Sayings

Beck

Just out of curiosity, I wonder what makes music or culture or taste go in certain directions. Who knows what the forces are behind it.

Carrie Brownstein

You do have to live through things, and to live through things is to observe want, and to observe lacking. Even if the hunger is a curiosity.

John Cornyn

Just because we are curious does not mean that our curiosity should be satisfied,

Bertrand Russell

I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.

Tom Hatch

It is not suited either to all kids or all parents. It requires students with considerable curiosity and independence, who come up with and get interested in questions and can sustain some interest in them.

Albert Einstein

It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Chris Landsea

Fortunately, Zeta is more of a curiosity than a life-threatening event.

Daniel Cohen

When the moment of truth came, when we entered the city, I was no longer afraid: my curiosity overcame the fear.

Rachel Campbell

Some of them aren't out yet and they've been wanting those.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I want Scott to look at me the way Patch looks at you.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I'm telling you this because I want you to know that I know something about you isn't right. You haven't fooled everybody. I'm going to find out what you're up to. I'm going to expose you." "Looking forward to it.

Barry Manilow

I've always wanted to marry Elton John.

Billy Corgan

In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else.

Bill Sienkiewicz

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will

Bill Sienkiewicz

So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a little different

Bill Sienkiewicz

And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say

Bill Crawford

Freedom isn't about having permission to do whatever we want... it's about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.

Andrew Clements

Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.

Ridley Scott

Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me.

Alice McDermott

Our task as fiction writers isn't just to report something that didn't really happen. We have to give what we write a sense of reality. The tool of our tradition is language.

Bharati Mukherjee

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.

Karin Slaughter

I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader.

Martin Villeneuve

'Mars et Avril' is a science fiction film. It's set in Montreal some 50 years in the future. No one had done that kind of movie in Quebec before because it's expensive, it's set in the future, and it's got tons of visual effects, and it's shot on green screen.

Julia Glass

I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making stuff up!

David Guterson

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.

Shaun Cassidy

I think it has science-fiction elements, but I would say that overall it's a mystery.