Pastoral Resources

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world.

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.

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.

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it.

Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.

Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.

I have an inate curiosity about people.

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

In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.

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

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.

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

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

When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.

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

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

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