Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Einstein

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

Vincent Canby

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

Samuel Beckett

And all these questions I ask myself. It is not in a spirit of curiosity. I cannot be silent. About myself I need know nothing. Here all is clear. No, all is not clear. But the discourse must go on. So one invents obscurities. Rhetoric.

Paul Christopher

We are not really spying, we're just satisfying our curiosity.

Oliver Goldsmith

We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal aim, of establishing a theory, yet he has brought together such a multitude of facts relative to the history of the earth, and the nature of its fossil productions, that curiosity finds ample compensation, even while it feels the want of conviction.

Margaret Atwood

It's probably a form of childish curiosity that keeps me going as a fiction writer. I ... want to open everybody's bureau drawers and see what they keep in there. I'm nosy.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

Kevin Mitnick

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.

Quentin Crisp

The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it

Rodney Mullen

Don't let anything poison your individuality. Break away & look in, not outward.

Sasha Alexander

I don't know that you can compare it to another show because each show has its own individuality.

Sarah Vowell

You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.

Rudolf Steiner

We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature.

Walt Disney

I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained.

Walt Whitman

The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.

William Butler Yeats

Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.

Johannes Stark

Moreover, the abundance of chemical compounds and their importance in daily life hindered the chemist from investigating the question, in what does the individuality of the atoms of different elements consist.

Oliver Goldsmith

Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

Chris Browning

we feel it is very important to reach out and do what we can for our neighbors who have not been similarly blessed.

Ruben Blades

But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.

Wynton Marsalis

Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors.

Robert Erspamer

If the neighbor hadn't called, it would have been a different story.

Tamara Brown

If you do it to me and my neighbors on Knight's Key, ... you are setting a precedent to do it in your neighborhood.

Steve Kinney

I'm not going to have any neighbors for a while.

Scott Edwards

It's going to be a quiet March. The neighbors (on the beach) should be happy.

Leah Busque

When it comes down to it, @Taskrabbit is about neighbors connecting with neighbors

Lita Ford

We don't have a lot of neighbors so we can blast the stereo