Quotes About Curiosity

I like to prowl ordinary places and taste the people- from a distance.

well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about things, what makes them work!

But you know, only boring people get bored. They have to prod themselves continually in order to feel alive.

It was hard for me to believe. When recess was over I sat in class and thought about it. My mother had a hole and my father had a dong that shot juice. How could they have things like that and walk around as if everything was normal, and talk about things, and then do it and not tell anybody?

I suppose that at last like the average man: I've known too many women and instead of thinking, I wonder who's fucking her now? I think she's giving some other poor son of a bitch much trouble right now.

I view his furry storage tanks – what can a man think about while looking at a cat's nuts? Certainly not the sunken navies of great sea battles.

The best people are the ones you never meet.

I had the dictionary at my elbow. Every now and then I would flip a page, find a large incomprehensible word and build a sentence or a paragraph out of the idea.

Nick, que esa cosa tan grande que está ahi empinada mientras hablas conmigo? -Ah, esto! Es mi barriga!

A mí cada vez que alguien me hablaba me entraban ganas de tirarme por la ventana o de escapar en el ascensor. La gente, simplemente, no me resultaba interesante. Quizá no tenía por qué serlo. Pero los animales, los pájaros, incluso los insectos lo eran. No podía entenderlo.

I like to prowl ordinary places and taste the people—from a distance. I don't want them too near because that's when attrition starts.

meanwhile I look at young girls stems flowers of chance. there must be a way. surely there must be a way that we have not yet though of. who put this brain inside of me? it cries it demands it says that there is a chance. it will not say no.

Lo más agradable de él era que nunca hablaba, a menos que se le preguntara algo. Nunca le pregunté nada.

I saw her walk in out of the corner of my eye. Why do they say "corner of the eye"? Eyes have no corners.

News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens. Ferris

when we were kids there was a strange house all the shades were always drawn and we never heard voices in there and the yard was full of bamboo and we liked to play in the bamboo pretend we were Tarzan (although

Then he spoke. "I just want to find out. I just want to find out for myself." "I don't come cheap." "How much?" "6 bucks an hour." "That doesn't seem like much money." "Does to me. You got a photo of your wife?

what she doesn't realize is that - usually - only boring people get bored.

Because I am interested in Colón, I bought a copy of the translation when I spotted it in a used-book store. Part of a series the Italian

Inexperienced in agriculture, the Pilgrims were also not woodspeople; indeed, they were so incurious about their environment that Bradford felt obliged to comment in his journal when Francis Billington . . . climbed to the top of a tall tree to look around. As Thoreau noted with disgust, the colonists landed at Plymouth on December 16, but it was not until January 8 that one of them went as far away as two miles--and even then the traveler was, again, Francis Billington.

It's only been 400 years since they vanished," he told me. "Why does nobody here know anything about them?

The only thing more mysterious than failing to invent the wheel would be inventing the wheel and then failing to use it. But that is exactly what the Indians did. Presumably countless thousands of people rolled the toylike figurines back and forth. How could none of them have thought of making their wheels bigger and more useful?

I think it's very important to live a varied and interesting life before you try to write one.

In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.