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Quotes About Inquisitive

Things then did not delay in turning curious.
~ Thomas Pynchon
I ask too many personal questions and am always poking into the out-of-the-way places.
~ Kathleen O'Dell
You think I don't understand curiosity? Lady, I am made of curiosity. I am a hundred dead cats.
~ Katie Williams
What makes you ask that?" (...) "Why does anyone ask a question? Because I want to know the answer.
~ Cameron Dokey
Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.
~ Camille Paglia
It had been his fate not to be interested in anything except everything.
~ Iris Murdoch
It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.
~ Isaac Asimov
Yet he had expended much of an inquisitive nature upon random reading. By the sheer force of indiscriminate voracity, he had gleaned a smattering of practically everything, and by means of a trick memory had managed to keep it all straight.
~ Isaac Asimov
According to my parents, I've always liked to tune into the conversations of others. But rather than hope for a snippet of salacious gossip, it has always been the words themselves that I wanted to understand.
~ Susie Dent
Anything that I'm passionate about and surprises me usually ends up turning into a joke simply because I have questions about it and I'm curious and I want to talk about it.
~ Katherine Ryan
I hear what they're saying. I ask my English tutor, 'What is this word 'tinkerer?''
~ Claudio Ranieri
A lot of the stuff I tweet is out of childlike curiosity.
~ David Grann
From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything.
~ Richard Foreman
Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know.
~ Sarah Dessen
I'm a star player when it comes to being sociable. It's because I'm inquisitive. When I meet someone for the first time, I want to start up a conversation with them.
~ Seungri
When I was younger, I didn't read that much. I was more interested in film and music. Now I'm curious. I want to know what it's all about.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I have an unhealthy curiosity about other people's business.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I'm always interested in learning something new.
~ Katherine Johnson
I'd quite like to be in Caligula's court - living in the back room somewhere and just being able to observe.
~ Mary Beard
I sometimes think I was always left-wing. I know that sounds completely crazy, but I do know that I asked questions when I was about four, and I remember noticing that I wasn't getting an answer, and I remember it annoying me.
~ Tilda Swinton
My mom cautioned me not to become a gossip! I was always up in people's business. People told me stuff... even when I didn't ask and I channeled my story gathering and good sources into a hunger for the news.
~ Harris Faulkner
The Deep South has the friendliest people in the world. They will do anything for you. They also want to know what's going on and won't hesitate to ask questions.
~ John Grisham
My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Exactly," says the parrot. "WHY are you here? Or should I ask 'Why are YOU here?' Or 'Why are you HERE?
~ Neal Shusterman