Quotes About Curiosity

Books held the answer to every question

But you did it. You broke away. D'ya ever think life must be bigger than what we see here, Els?

She got out of the bus and walked alone through town, past a man sitting Indian-style on the side of the road, with a goose on his lap. She heard him say, No way Matilda, to the bird as she hurried past the dirty tent that housed the fishing-carter service". The Great Alone

had never been

So, are you going to make me ask?

There's something almost miraculous about seeing a child's eyes light up when you hand him a book that intrigues him. I've always thought that it's those children—the ones who realize that books are magic—who will have the brightest lives.

I've always thought that it's those children—the ones who realize that books are magic—who will have the brightest lives.

Do not be afraid to ask your questions. But you must always be sure your heart is open to hear the answers.

Some people are story collectors. While others collect seashells, or stuffed animals, or stamps, story collectors wrap themselves in words, surround themselves with sentences, and play with participle, even those pesky, perky dangling ones. They climb over Cs and mount Ms and lounge in Ls. Soon enough they land in the land of homonyms, then, wham! They stumble into onomatopoeia, that lovely creaking, booming bit of wordplay - and that, Dear Friend, is where our story begins.

He felt overwelmed when he thought of all the books he hadn't read, all the books he wanted to read, and all the books he would want to read. Not to mention all the books that he hadn't heard of. Those dismayed him the most.

It strikes me that the only real reason to take apart a pocket watch, or a car engine, aside from the simple delight of disassembly, is to find out how it works. To understand it, so you can put it back together again better than before, or build a new one that goes beyond what the old one could do. We've been taking apart the superhero for ten years or more; it's time to put it back together and wind it up, time to take it out on the road and floor it, see what it'll do.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out.

Wo kämen wir hin, wenn jeder sagte, wo kämen wir hin und keiner ginge, um zu sehen, wohin wir kämen, wenn wir gingen.

Umwege erweitern die Ortskenntnis

Wie? Was? Wie?

And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next -- and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis -- at any time of night or day.

I am urging that we should learn about people in other places, take an interest in their civilizations, their arguments, their errors, their achievements, not because that will bring us to agreement, but because it will help us get used to one another.

When you walk out of your house in the morning, you don't know what you're going to see.

meeting the enigmatic PowerStation there tomorrow morning.

JOHN Alton's eyes moved from the deep blue carpet to the portrait of some old white guy

That CIA bitch had an almost supernatural ability to ask the right questions.