Eugene O'Neill Quotes

Curiosity killed the cat.

Eugene O'Neill

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• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Free

• Most directors that I've worked with - I've worked with before, especially in Holland - and they know that I'm somebody who talks and asks, and talks, and talks, and talks and questions and turns things around. I'm like a little cat, walking around my little nest until I find my place.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Know
  • Walking
  • Cat

• Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Knowledge
  • Curiosity

• Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Curiosity
  • Most
  • Permanent

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

  

  Walt Disney
  • Moving
  • Curiosity
  • Moving Forward

• As a leader, I believe it's important to have an open door with your staff. Those who want to learn and to grow in their careers will walk through that door and into your life. I encourage people to come and seek me out at 'Frontline' with good ideas, curiosity, and drive.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches, and then moves on.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • City
  • Cat

• A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Curiosity

• A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Cat

• From when I was born to when I was 21, I never left Toronto. That's why I'm such a city cat.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Why
  • City
  • Cat

• I like cats a lot. I've always liked cats. They're great company. When they eat, they always leave a little bit at the bottom of the bowl. A dog will polish the bowl, but a cat always leaves a little bit. It's like an offering.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • Great
  • Dog
  • Cat

• After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.

  

  Caroline Kennedy
  • Important
  • Real
  • Fashion

• My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.

  

  Chesley Sullenberger
  • Mother
  • Reading
  • Learning

• We are surely the primary agent of death for all members of the cat tribe. For many if not most cat species, our depredations must surpass accidents, disease, and even starvation by a considerable margin.

  

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
  • Death
  • Cat

• I think cat's are fantastic.

  

  Danielle Dax
  • Cat

• What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.

  

  Anne McCaffrey
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Food

• Replace judgment with curiosity.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • Curiosity

• Why not drive a snowmobile? I own an Artic Cat. We bought them because we enjoy doing things like that. I enjoy doing fun things, and that's definitely one of the things.

  

  Donald Cerrone
  • Why
  • Fun
  • Cat

• 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.

  

  David Hallberg
  • World
  • Why
  • Question

• I'm a very curious person. And most people are charmed by curiosity - especially if you are curious about them or what they are doing . . . unless they are breaking into a car or something.

  

  Ari Marcopoulos
  • Person
  • Curiosity

• When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there's also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent.

  

  Freida Pinto
  • Thinking
  • Hair
  • Doubt

• Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roughly stated, the voting population ought to represent the fighting population.

  

  John Boyle O'Reilly
  • Women
  • Law
  • Fighting

• Curiosity killed the cat.

  

  Eugene O'Neill
  • Cat
  • Curiosity
  • Killed