Quotes About Curiosity

After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.

I run after her, not really giving chase. I'm running because I can, because I must. Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.

His shoulder bumped mine again. "Can I ask you something?" I didn't answer. He was going to ask me anyway. People don't say that if they don't want to pry something out of you.

It's flattering that people want to know so much about me and want to take the time to make up that many things about me.

I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the moon, in spite of the want of atmosphere.

Don't give me that look. I'm not trying to find out who you are. I don't care who you are. I just want to know why it is you are the way you are.

It's probably a form of childish curiosity that keeps me going as a fiction writer. I ... want to open everybody's bureau drawers and see what they keep in there. I'm nosy.

If you know a little bit the psychology of human beings, you have to understand that if you say something you should not do, then everybody wants to do it.

How'd it feel?" Rube asked himself. "I don't know exactly, but it made me want to howl.

Some men send me condoms and underpants. I'm not sure what they want.

People do want to know the personal things. How far is too far to go with personal lives?

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

People don't want to be plagued by not knowing-they want answers.

Scientists are embarrassed by science fiction; they want to distance themselves as much as possible. ... I think there's nothing to be ashamed of [and that] we should take science fiction seriously.

When I open a refrigerator door and the light goes on, I want to perform.

People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it.

It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For stories that focus in on that - like whodunits - it's easy to get drawn into.

As long as the world continues to be strange and interesting, I still want to take pictures of it.

I don't go into a movie with preconceived notions of where I want things to go.

As a journalist, if you want to explore the world, you have to take a risk.

I have no idea,' he tells her, and there is such a spark in his eye when he says it, she can tell having no idea is exactly the way he wants it.

The reason I start a novel is because there's something that excites me and I want to explore it.

In the first year of a child's life we teach them to walk and talk. And then for the rest of their lives we want them to sit down and be quiet.

The universe is so amazing and so limitless, who wouldn't want to study the universe?