Quotes About Curiosity

Aubrey - "Apparently she wears a black leather catsuit and a golden mask." Irene - "Any details on the mask?" Aubrey - "I think people are usually too busy looking at the black leather catsuit.

But ultimately there was an even better reason why Irene headed for the door. It was simple curiosity.

Any details on the mask?" "I think people are usually too busy looking at the black leather cat-suit.

And the dragons aren't interested in talking to us about how they do whatever it is that they do." Kai coughed. "Just like we aren't interested in talking to them about how we do what we do?

I've invited all the best people. Lords, ladies, authors, ambassadors, debauchers, grave-robbers, perverts, sorcerers, courtesans, deranged scientists, and doll-makers. And a few innocent socialites, of course, but generally I receive polite notes of refusal from their parents—or invitations to be horsewhipped.

I'm about to look up Evariste's record, and this time you don't get to lean over my shoulder.

Besides," Catherine said as she followed, "we're probably all doomed anyhow, so I might as well get the full story directly from the Storyteller." Irene had known she and Catherine had a lot in common.

We are the Library," Coppelia pointed out. "What we don't know, we research.

stacks of reference books spread outward from the corners of the room and toward the center like infectious diseases.

What Vale didn't know, he had absolutely no idea about, but what he did know was usually fascinating.

Sure. I've been to hundreds of morgues. Thousands of them, in fact.

What is this guy . . . nuts?

The unknown is scary. It's unknown for a reason. That's why normal people don't go there.

I may not be smart enough to do everything, but I am dumb enough to try anything.

Ed. Note: not literally. Just on Planet Amigo.

One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.

Men loven of propre kynde newefangelnesse.

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.

I wouldn't mind dispatching all 3 of my room mates vile felines in this apartment. Nasty beasts. I'm just afraid I wouldn't be able to sell "curiosity" as a serial killer.

Can't I just say it's magic? - Charlie Blue

When sex was something godlike, Lust was the profane curiosity that killed many a straying cat. Now, having removed mystery, Lust is less a long-standing, overpowering yearning, more a sudden craving of the appetite. Less quest, more impulse buy.

In Mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

In der Mathematik ist die Kunst Fragen zu stellen wertvoller als Probleme zu lösen.

You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.