Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.

I found, when I was working in restaurants, that I did have this sort of natural curiosity about why things work.

Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries.

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

It's a tender and complicated dance, watching our parents age. We become protective in ways we never were before, and we study them with a mix of sadness and curiosity: Is this what we will be like when we are their age? We tell ourselves to be patient - just answer the same question again as if it wasn't answered a moment ago.

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

The core of what we're doing is, we're playing with the world. And our curiosity in doing that is what we are most proud of and what we like to put out there.

I think that everybody should go out there and test their curiosity, find a haunted place.

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

Many dancers are content with the repertoire they're given. Others are dissatisfied but don't know why. Then there are a few like me that are curious and grab at everything. Can that curiosity thrive in the ballet world, or should it exist elsewhere? That's the eternal question.

Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

Being in front of a class full of kids, you are giving a performance. You have to get their attention. You've got to awaken their curiosity. You become a bit of an entertainer.

I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.

What always drove me was my curiosity. That's what made me join Booking and not be afraid to leave a very successful job and then go into a startup.

All children are born with stars in their eyes, and they are curious. It is important for teachers to be careful not to kill this curiosity. A lot can go wrong. Children can be teased, even by teachers.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

The thing I always liked best about touring abroad was constantly running into different people, different cultures, different foods. It really pumped up my batteries... I'm constantly playing to a demographically diverse audience... one generation is driven by nostalgia, the next by curiosity. And that's why I have no plans to retire.

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.