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Quotes About Inquisitive

That's why I say, go down to the country, take a house, get interested in local politics, in local scandal, in village gossip. Take an inquisitive and violent interest in your neighbours. If I may make a suggestion, go to a part of the world where you haven't got any friends scattered about.
~ Agatha Christie
Well, even if I'm in the moon, I needn't be face downwards all the time," so he got cautiously up and looked about him.
~ Alan Alexander Milne
No, that's because there are more interesting things to do." Her grandmother looked at her sharply. "Like cutting into dead bodies" Carmeryn swallowed back her irration. "Yeah-the live one kick too much.
~ Alane Ferguson
Only the curious have, if they live, a tale worth telling at all.
~ Alastair Reid
I don't like questions that delve into my personal life.
~ Dimple Kapadia
Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.
~ Mason Cooley
It's horrible dating with Mama Mai! She is nosy. When I was a kid she would be the first one eavesdropping on my phone calls: 'Hello? Who you call for? Huh?'
~ Jeannie Mai
I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died.
~ Karin Slaughter
I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
~ James C. Collins
I was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many things as I wanted.
~ Martha Stewart
I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.
~ Steven Squyres
There is an army of the informed wanting to be more informed.
~ Melvyn Bragg
The ferret sat and examined his foot "What in the world am I?" he asked, alarmed "I look like some sort of rodent !
~ Rachel Roberts
old age is more easily kept at bay by an ever-inquiring mind than by any creams and lotions.
~ Rafik Schami
In fact, growing up, I thought there were two types of families: 1) Those who need a dictionary to get through dinner. 2) Those who don't. We were no. 1. Most every night, we'd end up consulting the dictionary, which we kept on a shelf just six steps from the table. "If you have a question," my folks would say, "then find the answer.
~ Randy Pausch
I have a mind that always wants to be busy.
~ Matt Letscher
People who sit for hours in a beach chair or an airplane seat without any reading material simply baffle me: What is going on between their ears, I wonder?
~ Max Boot
I've always enjoyed doing challenging things and also challenging common wisdom.
~ Stefan Hell
I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner.
~ Philip Johnson
I was always a player who asked questions, and it wasn't to be cheeky or rude, but I always wanted to know what the manager wanted.
~ Harry Kewell
To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.
~ Nat Turner
Kids ask me questions. You'd think after doing this for four years, I would have heard every single question anyone could think of to ask, but no, every time, they surprise me, they ask me something I never thought of before.
~ Rick Riordan
I think most young professionals would be surprised to learn how accommodating employers can be to inquisitive potential candidates.
~ Daniel Schwartz
She was staring after me with an expression she probably would have said was thoughtful.
~ Raymond Chandler