Quotes About Curiosity

It made me feel odd looking at that eye, like there was a world of curiosities I didn't know about: crocodiles with huge eyes and snakes with no heads and thunderbolts God threw down that turned to stone. Sometimes I got that hollowed-out feeling too when looking at a sky full of stars or into the deep water the few times I went out in a boat, and I didn't like it: it was as if the world were too strange for me ever to understand it.

If we don't offer ourself to the unknown, our senses dull. Our world becomes small and we lose our sense of wonder. Our eyes don't lift to the horizon; our ears don't hear the sounds around us. The edge is off our experience, and we pass our days in a routine that is both comfortable and limiting. We wake up one day and find that we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days.

This is why we need to travel. If we don't offer ourselves to the unknown, our senses dull. Our world becomes small and we lose our sense of wonder. Our eyes don't lift to the horizon; our ears don't hear the sounds around us. The edge is off our experience, and we pass our days in a routine that is both comfortable and limiting. We wake up one day and find that we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days.

If I had a talent I could claim, it would be as a finder of trouble. Which is undoubtedly what I'd find by sticking my nose where it had no right to be. But would I let a thought of trouble stop me? Not a snowflake's chance in hell.

You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...

Why? is the boy's motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and people; it's all grist to the mill of why.

Perhaps the death knell of love is not anger or even indifference; it's losing the desire to know more about your partner.

Jane read her Anatomy, occasionally raising her eyes from a diagram to consider any human within sight in a dissecting sort of way which, Dot said, gave her the willies.

platypuses irresistible proof that God likes a joke as much as anyone else. 'A platypus is intrinsically much less likely than a unicorn or a sea serpent.

Phryne read a detective story, frequently going back because she suddenly found herself reading a conversation between two characters she had not met before—

She had always found platypuses irresistible proof that God likes a joke as much as anyone else.

Come along,' I told the donkey. 'There's a precedent for this.' Manny

There's a nasty story…' Dot began. 'Do tell,' encouraged Phryne.

Will you allow your daughter to go goblin hunting with me?" Mr. Wylltson leaned against the back of the chair and studied Finn. "Nothing," he said finally, "can prepare a man for a question like that.

En el comedor se hizo un silencio sepulcral—susurró Xemerius desde la araña—. Todas las miradas apuntaban a la muchacha de la blusa amarillo pipí...

No one can know everything

Sieh an', sagte er und lächelte. 'Ein Zimmermädchen in einem Schrank.

Ein magischer Ort in den Wolken. Eine Heldin, die ein bisschen zu neugierig ist. Und das Abente.uer ihres Lebens

Raz stretnem dobre vyzerajúceho chlapa a akurát musím by? opitá ako ?ík. ?o je vlastné ?ík? A pre?o je sústavne opitý? Musím si to nájs? na internete.

Did they think they could shake me off as easily as that? Oh no, not now. Just when the dream was getting really interesting.

Here I'd finally met a good-looking man, and I was drunk as a skunk. And why a skunk, of all things? Are skunks somehow more prone to intoxication? I urgently needed to research that on the Internet.

I first saw Lucas at the end of July last summer. Of course, I didn't know who he was then... in fact, come to think of it, I didn't even know what he was. All I could see from the backseat of the car was a green-clad creature padding along the Stand in a shimmering haze of heat; a slight and ragged figure with a mop of straw-blond hair and a way of walking - I smile when I think of it - a way of walking that whispered secrets to the air.

Every time some [developer] says, 'Nobody will go to the trouble of doing that,' there's some kid in Finland who will go to the trouble.

F___k being a script kiddie if you can avoid it — be a hacker.