Quotes About Inquisitive

Maybe curiosity did kill your cat. But it wouldn't hurt to keep an eye on the neighbor's rottweiler just the same.

He looked her over, making her every nerve ending tingle with awareness, though his gaze was more inquisitive than sexual, as if making sure she was okay, though she had no idea why she wouldn't be. Then he smiled, and oh, how her misbehaving nipples loved that predatory smile. If his intense, concerned once-over had done things to her, his smile just about undid her from the inside out. -Amy

I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers.

And besides, she was curious. She had questions. And answering questions was very nearly always more important than caution.

He had been born with a quivering bump of curiosity that stopped throbbing only when it was satisfied

There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon.

cat that got into the cream pot

People are reserved, pretending indifference though inwardly they burn with curiosity.

When you don't know where you're headed, you find places no one else would ever think to explore.

Live your life as a curious student and you will discover how fascinating it is.

Millions saw an apple falling but only Newton asked why; because the apple didn't fall onto his head but into his mind.

My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.

My dad used to call me "yeah but" because no matter what the answer was I always wanted to explore why things were what they were and how they might be different.

the academic world, the intellectual world, where always to be antagonizing people and challenging whatever they said was apparently looked on with admiration.

He used to - when he was just a kitten - stand and stare up at us as if asking a question. We never understood what the question was. Maybe now he knows the answer.

Nuts grow on trees?" the spider inquired dubiously.

Behind me, Mom busily cleaned out the refrigerator, making room for the groceries Dad was out buying. I was dying to tell her about the scary mask. I wanted to show it to her. Maybe put it on and make her scream. But I knew she'd ask too many questions about where I bought it, and how much it cost, and how much of my allowance I used up to pay for it. All questions I couldn't answer.

It's much better to be too easily interested.

Jamie felt a strong desire to go across and see what the open books were, to go to the shelves and run his knuckles gently over the leather and wood and buckrum of the bindings until a book should speak to him and come willingly into his hand.

That's not what I asked," she said, a noticeable edge in her voice. "I asked why my father shot him." He sighed. She could have found gainful employment with the Spanish Inquisition, he thought ruefully; no chance of escape or evasion.

Restlessly, I moved around the surgery, picking things up and putting them down again.

he looked up at once when

Since I was a child, I started to ask very difficult questions; even my family was telling me all the time, 'You're a very difficult person, and we were having trouble answering your questions. Why are you asking so many questions?'

I am not shy when it comes to asking questions.