Quotes About Inquisitive

I was focused on building things from an early age. When I was about 3, our toilet broke, and my mother was ready to call the plumber. I told her I would fix it and asked her to get my Richard Scarry book 'How Things Work in Busytown.' Between the picture of a toilet and the text she read to me explaining how the parts worked, I fixed it.

I think 'growing up' would mean that you are incredibly tolerant and easygoing, liked everything, curious about the world because you weren't so egotistically driven.

keeping their gimlet eyes on one's affairs...

Even as a kid, if I would come across something cool in the record store, that would be how I found out about bands. It's kind of the same way these days. In a way even less because there are no record stores to go to anymore.

Q: Why did the blonde climb over the glass wall? A: To see what was on the other side.

I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the reference-book person.

Why? is the boy's motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and people; it's all grist to the mill of why.

As children we all wonder - we wonder all the time. And that gets lost in adulthood. It gets beaten out, it gets filtered out or diluted out.

What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?

there was a light behind him. He got up and stretched his neck out about a minute, listening. Then he says: Who dah? He listened some more; then he come tiptoeing down and stood right between us; we could a touched him, nearly.

Las intrigas que nos empujan hasta el final son las que me inquietan, me desconciertan, me pican la curiosidad y me asombran. Quedan muchas cosas en las que pensar. Queda mucha historia.

Liesel was tempted to ask her the meaning, but it never eventuated.

there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.

People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot. Stephen, they say, accusingly, you know a lot. This is a bit like telling a person who has a few grains of sand clinging to him that he owns much sand. When you consider the vast amount of sand there is in the world such a person is, to all intents and purposes, sandless. We are all sandless. We are all ignorant. There are beaches and deserts and dunes of knowledge whose existance we have never even guessed at, let alone visited.

Unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

Definition Of A Wanderer: A guy who's always looking beyond

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.

Why do Twolegs do anything? If we knew that, our lives would be a lot easier.

Perhaps I will." Cinderpaw shrugged. "Cinderpaw!" A shrill meow from Cloudkit interrupted them. "Come and see what I've found!" "Coming, Cloudkit!" Cinderpaw limped away, mewing good-humoredly to Fireheart as she went, "Maybe it's deadly nightshade this time.

Questions would be asked. Answers would be ignored.

Censor a self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.

I read science books, chemistry books, history books. I read that stuff for fun.