Quotes About Curiosity

When you live a life without questions, you're unprepared for the questions when they come.

This book is so interesting. I always wonder what's going to happen next.

You may feel a tugging sensation near your ankles.

Is that why you're here?" Ben blurted "To glean one of us?" Scythe Faraday offered an unreadable smile. "I'm here for dinner.

Normally Connor would walk away from a conversation like this. His life is about tangibles: things you can see, hear and touch. God, souls, and all that has always been like a secret in a black box he couldn't see into, so it was easier just to leave it alone. Only now, he's inside the black box.

Part of my job is to help other kids find books, because not everyone has a keenly organized mind. Some kids could wander the library for hours and still have no idea how to find anything. For them, the Dewey Decimal System might as well be advanced calculus.

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.

If you have to ask then you don't deserve an answer.

Exactly," says the parrot. "WHY are you here? Or should I ask 'Why are YOU here?' Or 'Why are you HERE?

I won't tell you what to look for, because if I do, you'll miss the things you would intuitively find.

Then his eyes glazed over for a second. 'I go places sometimes,' he told me, his voice as thready as his eyes. 'Don't know why I go places... I just do.

You've got questions coming out of you like farts on Thanksgiving.

You've got questions coming out of you like farts on Thanksgiving.

Do I know you? No, she said. But can we talk anyway?

You're asked this a lot. Or maybe you're only asked it once, and the other times are just echoes.

As we walk, I collect business cards for escort services from sleazy guys handing them out to anyone who will take them. Not that I intend to call the numbers on the cards, but it's something to collect.

He looks at me with his one seeing eye, as wary of me as I am of him. His eye is bright and alert. More than alert, it seems to peer deeper than eyes usually do. I know that means he's "off.

Why do they need you on Molokai? I'm not at liberty to say. 'Not at liberty to say.' They should put that on your grave. 'Here lies Roberta Griswold. Whether or not she rests in peace, we're not at liberty to say.

Year of the Capybara.

We learn because we want to, not because we have to, so we learn faster. We learn deeper.

Go down every rabbit hole, Tenka advised. Because some of them might actually have rabbits.

This, I know, is a rabbit hole down which only darkness lies, and yet, down it I must dive, into the parts of my own backbrain that not even I know exist...

But the feeling is there, like a wind at your back on the edge of a cliff, gently urging you. What if... What if...

Why, wondered Citra, would there ever be a need for 400,000 scythes?