Quotes About Probing

Is it painful? the groundskeeper asked. I am asking for science.

She wrote Dear James. She went on to say nothing directly about his friendliness or her loneliness. If she replied with the whole truth - why wouldn't she feel lonely at times? - he might be encouraged to do more probing and destroy one of the qualities she most enjoyed about this correspondence: giving or withholding at will. Wasn't that the great advantage of living one's life alone, the control?

The goal for me is to pull in the reader and to have them ask questions.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

I agree, there is something underlying, something we are not aware of'. 'We will just have to keep on probing and looking until we have a full picture of what happened before David died,'  Jackie told her.

He spoke with her briefly in Russian, but she deflected his probing questions with skill, and he learned nothing about her other than that she was interested in the religious writings of Soloviev, which she said were difficult to find in the Soviet Union. She purchased Russia and the Universal Church and War, Progress, and the End of History. He never saw her again.

Look at it this way, that way, face the thing squarely. Could some fool in a laboratory, he'd asked his assistants, Blow up the world with this? You could pay dearly For probing too deeply into that dark resistance Where light lay coiled in stone. He

We are not really spying, we're just satisfying our curiosity.

An open-ended question invites curiosity.